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 Japanese belief system of Shinto.
22 Sep 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
15 Sep 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Minoan Civilisation of Bronze Age Crete.
07 Jul 2011,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
30 Jun 2011,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malthusianism.
23 Jun 2011,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss John Wyclif and the Lollards.
16 Jun 2011,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease.
09 Jun 2011,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
02 Jun 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian and soldier Xenophon.
26 May 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand.
19 May 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
12 May 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Islamic law.
05 May 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Rene Descartes' famous statement.
28 Apr 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the church's most significant doctrinal disputes.
21 Apr 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutrino, the so-called 'ghost particle'.
14 Apr 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill.
07 Apr 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bhagavad Gita, a key text of Hinduism.
31 Mar 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the dawn of the Iron Age.
24 Mar 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
17 Mar 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.
10 Mar 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.
03 Mar 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.
24 Feb 2011,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides.
17 Feb 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.
10 Feb 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.
03 Feb 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics.
27 Jan 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
20 Jan 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.
13 Jan 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
06 Jan 2011,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
30 Dec 2010,·45 mins
