Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
28 Jan 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Glencoe Massacre of 1692.
21 Jan 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and influence of the Frankfurt School.
14 Jan 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.
31 Dec 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and myth of the Samurai.
24 Dec 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
10 Dec 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
03 Dec 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
26 Nov 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
19 Nov 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
12 Nov 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.
05 Nov 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
29 Oct 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
22 Oct 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
15 Oct 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dreyfus Affair, which tore France apart in the 1890s.
08 Oct 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
01 Oct 2009,·45 mins
The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
24 Sep 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas.
17 Sep 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
09 Jul 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
02 Jul 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
25 Jun 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers.
18 Jun 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Augustan Age in Rome.
11 Jun 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the trial of Charles I.
04 Jun 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church.
28 May 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
21 May 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Army.
14 May 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.
07 May 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
30 Apr 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.
23 Apr 2009,·45 mins
