Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Central Asian scientist and historian al-Biruni.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of Purgatory.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Magdalene, one of the best-known figures in the Bible
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Salem witch trials.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Islamic thinker Al-Ghazali.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hindu ideas about the creation of the universe.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss prophecy in the Abrahamic religions.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Gnosticism, a sect associated with early Christianity.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the cult of Mithras, the Roman mystery religion.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the sacred texts of Hinduism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological Argument for the existence of God.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biblical king Solomon.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Quakerism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty of early modern Iran.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Concordat of Worms of 1122.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Japanese belief system of Shinto.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss John Wyclif and the Lollards.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Islamic law.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the church's most significant doctrinal disputes.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bhagavad Gita, a key text of Hinduism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of John Calvin and their impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Army.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles
Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nicene Creed which established the Divinity of Christ.
Melvyn Bragg discusses what the Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower mean to Americans.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Dutch, Jewish and Christian Philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 7th century abbess, St Hilda.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, “the school masters of Europe”.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Hell and its representation in the arts.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events that helped trigger the European Reformation.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Spanish Inquisition, defenders of medieval orthodoxy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year cultural history of fairies.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Catholic movement within the Church of England.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of heaven and the afterlife.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval tale of Abelard and Heloise.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heavenly host of Angels.
The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.
The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.
The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the politics behind the rise of religious freedom in England.
Melvyn Bragg examines the concept of original sin and its influence in Christian Europe.
Melvyn Bragg examines the myths and theology that inspired the Vikings.
Melvyn Bragg examines how the Devil became an established figure in Christianity.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572.
Melvyn Bragg examines events surrounding the medieval division of the Christian Church.
Melvyn Bragg examines how a powerful narrative of judgement and retribution evolved.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss blood, from medical progress to the link to the divine.
Melvyn Bragg examines why the Holy Grail legend has fascinated writers for centuries.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss redemption, crucial for Judeo-Christian thought.
Melvyn Bragg examines the manuscripts that united Celtic and Roman cultures in England.
Melvyn Bragg examines Muslim Spain, from Cordoba’s golden age to the fall of Granada.
The history of thought on immortality, the self and the afterlife.
The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
The life of Siddhartha Gautama and the legacy of his teachings.
Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.
The history and legacy of classical Humanism, invented by Cicero.
Melvyn Bragg explores the areas of conflict and agreement between science and religion.
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
Melvyn Bragg examines the purpose and effects of prayer.
Melvyn Bragg examines the roots and the consequences of religious fundamentalism.
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.