Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
16 Apr 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.
09 Apr 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
02 Apr 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.
26 Mar 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
19 Mar 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
12 Mar 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
05 Mar 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
26 Feb 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
19 Feb 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage
12 Feb 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
05 Feb 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal
29 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.
22 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
15 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.
01 Jan 2009,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
18 Dec 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
11 Dec 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
04 Dec 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
27 Nov 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
20 Nov 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
13 Nov 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle’s ‘Politics’.
06 Nov 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
30 Oct 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles
23 Oct 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
16 Oct 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
09 Oct 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
02 Oct 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
25 Sep 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the life and chronicles of the the Roman historian Tacitus.
10 Jul 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
03 Jul 2008,·45 mins
