Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1103 episodes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
06 Apr 2023,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
30 Mar 2023,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
23 Mar 2023,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
16 Mar 2023,·57 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
09 Mar 2023,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
02 Mar 2023,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
23 Feb 2023,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
16 Feb 2023,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
09 Feb 2023,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
02 Feb 2023,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
26 Jan 2023,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
19 Jan 2023,·60 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
12 Jan 2023,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
29 Dec 2022,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
22 Dec 2022,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
15 Dec 2022,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
08 Dec 2022,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
01 Dec 2022,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
24 Nov 2022,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
17 Nov 2022,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
10 Nov 2022,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
03 Nov 2022,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
27 Oct 2022,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
20 Oct 2022,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
13 Oct 2022,·60 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
06 Oct 2022,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
29 Sep 2022,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.
22 Sep 2022,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
15 Sep 2022,·42 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
30 Jun 2022,·53 mins
