Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1114 episodes
Melvyn Bragg explores the areas of conflict and agreement between science and religion.
25 Jan 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the role of British thinkers in the 18th century Enlightenment.
18 Jan 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
11 Jan 2001,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
04 Jan 2001,·45 mins
The history of the philosophy that claims that truths are illusory.
16 Nov 2000,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
09 Nov 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
02 Nov 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg looks at the re-shaping of England as a modern state by the Tudor dynasty.
26 Oct 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
19 Oct 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.
12 Oct 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany though historiographical theories.
05 Oct 2000,·45 mins
The history of London from its Neolithic origin to the digitalised capital city of today.
28 Sep 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
29 Jun 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines why the public is fascinated with the private lives of individuals.
22 Jun 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the true meaning of genius and whether it is born or made.
15 Jun 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.
08 Jun 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.
01 Jun 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
25 May 2000,·45 mins
The 15th century wars of the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.
18 May 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare’s work that makes it universal.
11 May 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death.
04 May 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
27 Apr 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity.
20 Apr 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are in a new era in the history of modern warfare.
13 Apr 2000,·41 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
06 Apr 2000,·45 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we can ever predict the future by understanding the past.
30 Mar 2000,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
23 Mar 2000,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled his successes.
16 Mar 2000,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
09 Mar 2000,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid’s work Metamorphoses.
02 Mar 2000,·30 mins
