Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
23 Oct 2014,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
16 Oct 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.
09 Oct 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and reputation of Julius Caesar.
02 Oct 2014,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
25 Sep 2014,·45 mins
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
07 Jan 2010,·45 mins
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
06 Jan 2010,·45 mins
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.
05 Jan 2010,·45 mins
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.
04 Jan 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
10 Jul 2014,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
03 Jul 2014,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
26 Jun 2014,·44 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
19 Jun 2014,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
12 Jun 2014,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
05 Jun 2014,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.
29 May 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
22 May 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
15 May 2014,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
08 May 2014,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.
01 May 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.
24 Apr 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.
17 Apr 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.
10 Apr 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
03 Apr 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
27 Mar 2014,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.
20 Mar 2014,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity.
13 Mar 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.
06 Mar 2014,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
27 Feb 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
20 Feb 2014,·41 mins
