Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
12 Jan 2017,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
29 Dec 2016,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
22 Dec 2016,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
15 Dec 2016,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
08 Dec 2016,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
01 Dec 2016,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
24 Nov 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
17 Nov 2016,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
10 Nov 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
03 Nov 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
27 Oct 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
20 Oct 2016,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
13 Oct 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.
06 Oct 2016,·47 mins
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
29 Sep 2016,·51 mins
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
22 Sep 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
07 Jul 2016,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.
30 Jun 2016,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
23 Jun 2016,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
16 Jun 2016,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
09 Jun 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
02 Jun 2016,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
26 May 2016,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.
19 May 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
12 May 2016,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
05 May 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.
28 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
21 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.
14 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
07 Apr 2016,·44 mins
