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 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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.
09 Dec 2004,·45 mins
The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
02 Dec 2004,·45 mins
The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.
25 Nov 2004,·30 mins
The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
18 Nov 2004,·45 mins
The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.
11 Nov 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
04 Nov 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato.
28 Oct 2004,·45 mins
The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.
21 Oct 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Han Synthesis philosophies of China.
14 Oct 2004,·45 mins
The life and work of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
07 Oct 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.
30 Sep 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.
23 Sep 2004,·45 mins
The history and legacy of the English army's defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415.
16 Sep 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monster filled epic, Homer’s Odyssey.
09 Sep 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.
02 Sep 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the first President of the US and what drove him to revolution.
24 Jun 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.
17 Jun 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
10 Jun 2004,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth behind the empire of Babylon.
03 Jun 2004,·45 mins
