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