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 enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
03 Feb 2022,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
27 Jan 2022,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
20 Jan 2022,·49 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
13 Jan 2022,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
30 Dec 2021,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
23 Dec 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
16 Dec 2021,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
09 Dec 2021,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.
02 Dec 2021,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's exploration of the nature of power and freedom.
25 Nov 2021,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
18 Nov 2021,·51 mins
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
