Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1103 episodes
Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.
16 May 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.
09 May 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
02 May 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
25 Apr 2002,·45 mins
The history of the ancient kingdom and its religious, national and ethnic ideologies.
11 Apr 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
04 Apr 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.
28 Mar 2002,·45 mins
The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
21 Mar 2002,·45 mins
The life of Siddhartha Gautama and the legacy of his teachings.
14 Mar 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.
07 Mar 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.
28 Feb 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines what we really know about the Celts of pre-Roman Britain.
21 Feb 2002,·45 mins
The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
14 Feb 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
07 Feb 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
31 Jan 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.
24 Jan 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.
17 Jan 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
10 Jan 2002,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the ideas behind the 18th century literary cult of sensibility.
03 Jan 2002,·45 mins
The cultural history of food in Modern Europe since the Renaissance.
27 Dec 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests assess the role that Rome has played in European civilization.
20 Dec 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
13 Dec 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.
06 Dec 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.
29 Nov 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
22 Nov 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.
15 Nov 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.
08 Nov 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the chinese philosophy of Confucianism.
01 Nov 2001,·45 mins
The comparative histories of two titans of 19th century history.
25 Oct 2001,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins of the most cherished form of government in the world.
18 Oct 2001,·45 mins
