Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.
19 Oct 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.
12 Oct 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
05 Oct 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.
28 Sep 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.
21 Sep 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
06 Jul 2017,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great works of political and ethical theory.
29 Jun 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.
22 Jun 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.
15 Jun 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).
08 Jun 2017,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.
01 Jun 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of Purgatory.
25 May 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
18 May 2017,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
11 May 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.
04 May 2017,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.
27 Apr 2017,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.
20 Apr 2017,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
13 Apr 2017,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
06 Apr 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
30 Mar 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
23 Mar 2017,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
16 Mar 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
09 Mar 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.
02 Mar 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
23 Feb 2017,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.
16 Feb 2017,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.
09 Feb 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
02 Feb 2017,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
26 Jan 2017,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
19 Jan 2017,·52 mins
