Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1115 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream.
18 Mar 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and mythologisation of Boudica.
11 Mar 2010,·45 mins
Darwin: Life After Origins
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
08 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
07 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
06 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
05 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
04 Mar 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of John Calvin and their impact.
25 Feb 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion which followed
18 Feb 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries.
11 Feb 2010,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
04 Feb 2010,·45 mins
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
