Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1114 episodes
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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge.
18 Mar 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of geography and ecology in shaping world history.
11 Mar 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare.
04 Mar 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history and legacy of 20th Century Avant Garde painting.
25 Feb 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
18 Feb 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
11 Feb 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
04 Feb 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
28 Jan 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the definition and state of modern culture in the 20th century.
21 Jan 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
14 Jan 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
07 Jan 1999,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the impact of Britain’s colonial past on its current identity.
31 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don’t yet know about the brain.
24 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines how legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century.
17 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines what impact globalisation has had on human rights.
10 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg considers the relevance of the study of history in the 20th century.
03 Dec 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg examines the changing ideas about the function of work in the 20th century.
26 Nov 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
19 Nov 1998,·30 mins
Melvyn Bragg looks at the innovative developments of the city in the 20th century.
12 Nov 1998,·30 mins
