Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1115 episodes
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
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
