Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1103 episodes
Melvyn Bragg looks at how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.
09 Dec 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time.
02 Dec 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
25 Nov 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.
18 Nov 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the development and the future of the novel.
11 Nov 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and the modern purpose of education.
04 Nov 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the widespread and chilling inhumanity of the 20th century.
28 Oct 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of the individual from the Renaissance to today.
21 Oct 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it is appropriate to think of the UK as a nation.
14 Oct 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why we are as enthralled as ever by the idea of a Utopia.
07 Oct 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether it is possible to apply mathematical logic to literature.
30 Sep 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
23 Sep 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
22 Jul 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it matters if memoirs aren’t entirely truthful.
15 Jul 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the roots of Africa's current political and social crises.
08 Jul 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
01 Jul 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.
24 Jun 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
17 Jun 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the enduring strengths and current role of the British monarchy.
10 Jun 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines where the idea of a just war originated and if it can still exist.
03 Jun 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
27 May 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
20 May 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century’s vast population and cultural shifts.
13 May 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
06 May 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
29 Apr 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the roots and the consequences of religious fundamentalism.
22 Apr 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
15 Apr 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines whether writers have a political role in modern society.
08 Apr 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
01 Apr 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines what the architecture of the 20th century says about the age.
25 Mar 1999,·30 mins
