Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1104 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cynics, the performance artists of philosophy.
20 Oct 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
13 Oct 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Tudor conspicuous consumption.
06 Oct 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and mysterious force of magnetism.
29 Sep 2005,·45 mins
The life and ideas of Karl Marx who changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.
14 Jul 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the life of glittering Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
07 Jul 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the mad man of the woods.
30 Jun 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
23 Jun 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.
16 Jun 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the satirical 18th century Scriblerus Club.
09 Jun 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.
02 Jun 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of terror during the French Revolution.
26 May 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the qualities of beauty and the history of aesthetics.
19 May 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval tale of Abelard and Heloise.
05 May 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
28 Apr 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘The Aeneid’, Virgil's great epic poem about Rome.
21 Apr 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
14 Apr 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines King Alfred and the defeat of the Vikings at Battle of Edington.
07 Apr 2005,·45 mins
The life and work of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
31 Mar 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heavenly host of Angels.
24 Mar 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines recently discovered 'dark energy' and its effect on the universe.
17 Mar 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mad, bad world of modern utopias.
10 Mar 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explore Stoicism, the most influential philosophy in the Ancient World.
03 Mar 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
24 Feb 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
17 Feb 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.
13 Jan 2005,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.
06 Jan 2005,·45 mins
The rise and eventual downfall of the Roman Republic which survived for 500 years.
30 Dec 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myth of Faustus and temptation by evil.
23 Dec 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
16 Dec 2004,·45 mins
