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 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
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss medieval chivalry.
13 Feb 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians of the ancient Mediterranean.
06 Feb 2014,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.
30 Jan 2014,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history.
23 Jan 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Tours of 732.
16 Jan 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium.
02 Jan 2014,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.
26 Dec 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
19 Dec 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
12 Dec 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hindu ideas about the creation of the universe.
05 Dec 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
28 Nov 2013,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
21 Nov 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
14 Nov 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy.
07 Nov 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
31 Oct 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
24 Oct 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer.
17 Oct 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman physician and medical theorist Galen.
10 Oct 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
03 Oct 2013,·42 mins
