Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .
14 Feb 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
07 Feb 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.
31 Jan 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
24 Jan 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
17 Jan 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Charge of the Light Brigade.
10 Jan 2008,·45 mins
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
03 Jan 2008,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nicene Creed which established the Divinity of Christ.
27 Dec 2007,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
20 Dec 2007,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Sassanian Empire in Persia from the 3rd to the 7th century AD.
13 Dec 2007,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
06 Dec 2007,·45 mins
