Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1115 episodes
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
18 Oct 2018,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
11 Oct 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
04 Oct 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
27 Sep 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
20 Sep 2018,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
13 Sep 2018,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
05 Jul 2018,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
28 Jun 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
21 Jun 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
14 Jun 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
07 Jun 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
31 May 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses
24 May 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.
17 May 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.
10 May 2018,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.
03 May 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
26 Apr 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
19 Apr 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
12 Apr 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.
05 Apr 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.
22 Mar 2018,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
15 Mar 2018,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
08 Mar 2018,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.
01 Mar 2018,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
22 Feb 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.
15 Feb 2018,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.
08 Feb 2018,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.
01 Feb 2018,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
25 Jan 2018,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.
18 Jan 2018,·48 mins
