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 life of one of England's most revered saints.
28 Jan 2021,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
21 Jan 2021,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
14 Jan 2021,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
31 Dec 2020,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
17 Dec 2020,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
10 Dec 2020,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
03 Dec 2020,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
26 Nov 2020,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.
12 Nov 2020,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
05 Nov 2020,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
29 Oct 2020,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
22 Oct 2020,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
15 Oct 2020,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
08 Oct 2020,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
01 Oct 2020,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
24 Sep 2020,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
17 Sep 2020,·48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
12 Mar 2020,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
05 Mar 2020,·50 mins
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
27 Feb 2020,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
20 Feb 2020,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
13 Feb 2020,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
06 Feb 2020,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
30 Jan 2020,·56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
23 Jan 2020,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
16 Jan 2020,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
09 Jan 2020,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
26 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
19 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
12 Dec 2019,·55 mins
