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 Gnosticism, a sect associated with early Christianity.
02 May 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.
25 Apr 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
18 Apr 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth.
11 Apr 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation.
04 Apr 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
28 Mar 2013,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
21 Mar 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
14 Mar 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature.
07 Mar 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
28 Feb 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall.
21 Feb 2013,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
14 Feb 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of Epicureanism.
07 Feb 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain.
31 Jan 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Romulus and Remus, the foundation myth of Rome.
24 Jan 2013,·43 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss comets, the 'dirty snowballs' of the solar system.
17 Jan 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.
10 Jan 2013,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the cult of Mithras, the Roman mystery religion.
27 Dec 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
20 Dec 2012,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian epic poem, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.
13 Dec 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss influential British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
06 Dec 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and achievements of crystallography.
29 Nov 2012,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Borgias, the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy
22 Nov 2012,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil.
15 Nov 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the sacred texts of Hinduism.
08 Nov 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the 12th-century English civil war.
01 Nov 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
25 Oct 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Caxton and the influence of the printing press.
18 Oct 2012,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the remarkable Carthaginian general Hannibal.
11 Oct 2012,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales.
04 Oct 2012,·42 mins
