Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Radio 4,·1114 episodes
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
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
05 Dec 2019,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
28 Nov 2019,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
21 Nov 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
14 Nov 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
07 Nov 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
31 Oct 2019,·50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
24 Oct 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
17 Oct 2019,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
10 Oct 2019,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
03 Oct 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
26 Sep 2019,·51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
19 Sep 2019,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
04 Jul 2019,·53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
27 Jun 2019,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
20 Jun 2019,·54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
13 Jun 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
06 Jun 2019,·52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
30 May 2019,·55 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
23 May 2019,·51 mins
