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 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
Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
26 Jun 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
19 Jun 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.
12 Jun 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
05 Jun 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
29 May 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
22 May 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
15 May 2008,·45 mins
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
08 May 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
01 May 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.
24 Apr 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
17 Apr 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘the Norman Yoke'.
10 Apr 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
03 Apr 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
27 Mar 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
20 Mar 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
13 Mar 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
06 Mar 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
28 Feb 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
21 Feb 2008,·45 mins
