Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1115 episodes
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
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
