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 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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger.
31 Mar 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
24 Mar 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early history of Bethlehem Hospital, known as Bedlam.
17 Mar 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.
10 Mar 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company.
03 Mar 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Magdalene, one of the best-known figures in the Bible
25 Feb 2016,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.
18 Feb 2016,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).
11 Feb 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
04 Feb 2016,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman of her time.
28 Jan 2016,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.
21 Jan 2016,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
14 Jan 2016,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of Tristan and Iseult.
31 Dec 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
24 Dec 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
17 Dec 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chinese Legalism from the time of the First Emperor.
10 Dec 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the voyages of James Cook, as suggested by listeners.
03 Dec 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Salem witch trials.
26 Nov 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.
19 Nov 2015,·43 mins
