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 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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.
23 Dec 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.
16 Dec 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
09 Dec 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra, the famed last pharaoh of Egypt.
02 Dec 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of metaphor.
25 Nov 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
18 Nov 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings.
11 Nov 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.
04 Nov 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.
28 Oct 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
21 Oct 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.
14 Oct 2010,·45 mins
