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 Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
12 Nov 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
05 Nov 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire of Mali.
29 Oct 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, work and life of Simone de Beauvoir.
22 Oct 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.
15 Oct 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
01 Oct 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
24 Sep 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.
09 Jul 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
02 Jul 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
25 Jun 2015,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.
18 Jun 2015,·43 mins
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
