Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
11 Jun 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
04 Jun 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
28 May 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
21 May 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lancashire cotton famine during the American Civil War
14 May 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.
07 May 2015,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
30 Apr 2015,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.
23 Apr 2015,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.
16 Apr 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek poet Sappho.
09 Apr 2015,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
02 Apr 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
26 Mar 2015,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Islamic thinker Al-Ghazali.
19 Mar 2015,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
12 Mar 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
05 Mar 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and significance of eunuchs.
26 Feb 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's economic treatise The Wealth of Nations.
19 Feb 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
12 Feb 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Indian ruler Ashoka the Great.
05 Feb 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
29 Jan 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.
22 Jan 2015,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bruegel's painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.
15 Jan 2015,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.
18 Dec 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
11 Dec 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
04 Dec 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
27 Nov 2014,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables
20 Nov 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
13 Nov 2014,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut.
06 Nov 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
30 Oct 2014,·46 mins
