Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1114 episodes
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
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
