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 siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
11 Nov 2021,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.
04 Nov 2021,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
28 Oct 2021,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
21 Oct 2021,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.
14 Oct 2021,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
07 Oct 2021,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
30 Sep 2021,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
23 Sep 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
16 Sep 2021,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
24 Jun 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
17 Jun 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.
10 Jun 2021,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
03 Jun 2021,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
27 May 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.
20 May 2021,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
13 May 2021,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces
06 May 2021,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
29 Apr 2021,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
22 Apr 2021,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
15 Apr 2021,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
08 Apr 2021,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
01 Apr 2021,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
25 Mar 2021,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
18 Mar 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
11 Mar 2021,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
04 Mar 2021,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
25 Feb 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
18 Feb 2021,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.
11 Feb 2021,·47 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
04 Feb 2021,·49 mins
