Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1114 episodes
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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
23 Jun 2022,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
16 Jun 2022,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
09 Jun 2022,·58 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
26 May 2022,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
19 May 2022,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
12 May 2022,·46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
05 May 2022,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
28 Apr 2022,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
21 Apr 2022,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
14 Apr 2022,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
07 Apr 2022,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
31 Mar 2022,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
24 Mar 2022,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
17 Mar 2022,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.
10 Mar 2022,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.
03 Mar 2022,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid
24 Feb 2022,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
17 Feb 2022,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
10 Feb 2022,·50 mins
