Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.
Published on Thursday, 26th June 2025.
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2025.
The evolution of copyright.
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2025.
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2025.
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2025.
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2025.
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2025.
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2025.
Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2025.
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2025.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
Published on Thursday, 29th February 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2023.
To mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.
Published on Thursday, 20th July 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's exploration of the nature of power and freedom.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.
Published on Thursday, 10th June 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
Published on Thursday, 18th March 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2020.
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2019.
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2018.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2018.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
Published on Thursday, 7th June 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek city of Thebes in myth, drama and history.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss history and culture of the Picts.
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Central Asian scientist and historian al-Biruni.
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great works of political and ethical theory.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of Purgatory.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2016.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2016.
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early history of Bethlehem Hospital, known as Bedlam.
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company.
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Magdalene, one of the best-known figures in the Bible
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman of her time.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of Tristan and Iseult.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chinese Legalism from the time of the First Emperor.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the voyages of James Cook, as suggested by listeners.
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Salem witch trials.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire of Mali.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, work and life of Simone de Beauvoir.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lancashire cotton famine during the American Civil War
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek poet Sappho.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Islamic thinker Al-Ghazali.
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and significance of eunuchs.
Published on Thursday, 26th February 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's economic treatise The Wealth of Nations.
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
Published on Thursday, 12th February 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Indian ruler Ashoka the Great.
Published on Thursday, 5th February 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
Published on Thursday, 29th January 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.
Published on Thursday, 22nd January 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bruegel's painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.
Published on Thursday, 15th January 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Published on Thursday, 6th November 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and reputation of Julius Caesar.
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
Published on Thursday, 25th September 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
Published on Thursday, 26th June 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity.
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss medieval chivalry.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians of the ancient Mediterranean.
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Tours of 732.
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium.
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hindu ideas about the creation of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman physician and medical theorist Galen.
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mamluks, medieval rulers of Egypt and Syria.
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Chinese book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, important French economic thinkers.
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss prophecy in the Abrahamic religions.
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Gnosticism, a sect associated with early Christianity.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of Epicureanism.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain.
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Romulus and Remus, the foundation myth of Rome.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss comets, the 'dirty snowballs' of the solar system.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the cult of Mithras, the Roman mystery religion.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian epic poem, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss influential British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and achievements of crystallography.
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Borgias, the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the sacred texts of Hinduism.
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the 12th-century English civil war.
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Caxton and the influence of the printing press.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the remarkable Carthaginian general Hannibal.
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales.
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological Argument for the existence of God.
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Druids of ancient Europe.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biology and origins of the cell.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hadrian's Wall.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of philosophical scepticism.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Arab philosopher Al-Kindi.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 19th-century writer and campaigner Annie Besant.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biblical king Solomon.
Published on Thursday, 7th June 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Trojan War, a central event of Ancient Greek mythology
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the celebrated Venetian explorer Marco Polo.
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Clausewitz's influential treatise On War.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, published in 1759.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient philosophical school of Neoplatonism.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Quakerism.
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Vitruvius's De Architectura.
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of electrical conduction.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the An Lushan Rebellion.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra.
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty of early modern Iran.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the giant molecules that underpin all life.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Concordat of Worms of 1122.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ptolemy and ancient astronomy.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Continental and Analytic philosophical traditions.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Siege of Tenochtitlan and fall of the Aztec Empire
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ming Voyages of discovery.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Scottish philosopher David Hume.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Etruscan civilisation.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Japanese belief system of Shinto.
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Minoan Civilisation of Bronze Age Crete.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
Published on Wednesday, 29th June 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malthusianism.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss John Wyclif and the Lollards.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease.
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian and soldier Xenophon.
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand.
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Islamic law.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Rene Descartes' famous statement.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the church's most significant doctrinal disputes.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutrino, the so-called 'ghost particle'.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bhagavad Gita, a key text of Hinduism.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the dawn of the Iron Age.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides.
Published on Tuesday, 15th February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics.
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.
Published on Wednesday, 15th December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra, the famed last pharaoh of Egypt.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of metaphor.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings.
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Spanish Armada.
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle.
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias.
Published on Thursday, 8th July 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of Athelstan, the first king of all England.
Published on Thursday, 1st July 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the Antarctic and its exploration.
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution and characteristics of the Neanderthals.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke.
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the scientific achievements of the Cavendish family.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Great Wall of China.
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman satire.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Nation.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the essayist William Hazlitt.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the city.
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the city, from its Bronze Age origins to 1800.
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream.
Published on Thursday, 18th March 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and mythologisation of Boudica.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of John Calvin and their impact.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion which followed
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Glencoe Massacre of 1692.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and influence of the Frankfurt School.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2010.
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2010.
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2010.
How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.
Published on Tuesday, 5th January 2010.
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.
Published on Monday, 4th January 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and myth of the Samurai.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dreyfus Affair, which tore France apart in the 1890s.
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2009.
The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas.
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2009.
Melvyn Bragg discusses why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers.
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Augustan Age in Rome.
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the trial of Charles I.
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church.
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Army.
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
Published on Thursday, 26th February 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage
Published on Thursday, 12th February 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Published on Thursday, 5th February 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal
Published on Thursday, 29th January 2009.
Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.
Published on Thursday, 22nd January 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
Published on Thursday, 15th January 2009.
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
Published on Thursday, 8th January 2009.
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
Published on Wednesday, 7th January 2009.
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
Published on Tuesday, 6th January 2009.
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
Published on Monday, 5th January 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 1st January 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
Published on Tuesday, 11th November 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle’s ‘Politics’.
Published on Thursday, 6th November 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
Published on Thursday, 25th September 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the life and chronicles of the the Roman historian Tacitus.
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
Published on Thursday, 26th June 2008.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2008.
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘the Norman Yoke'.
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2008.
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2008.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nicene Creed which established the Divinity of Christ.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Sassanian Empire in Persia from the 3rd to the 7th century AD.
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Persian Islamic philosopher Avicenna.
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests take a long hard look at the idea of guilt.
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th century obsession with taste.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the myths, tales and legends of the Arabian Nights.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea that kingly authority derives from God.
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Antimatter in particle physics and cosmology.
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the iconic Greek philosopher, Socrates.
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1857 trial of Gustave Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses what the Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower mean to Americans.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss common sense philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.
Published on Thursday, 7th June 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Joan of Arc's role in the 1428 Siege of Orléans.
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the high pessimism of Victorian culture.
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Dutch, Jewish and Christian Philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Greek and Roman love poetry.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea of symmetry in art and nature.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 19th century Opium Wars between Britain and China.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 7th century abbess, St Hilda.
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses epistolary literature from Aphra Benn to Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek mathematician Archimedes and his famous cry of “eureka!”
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, “the school masters of Europe”.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the planet Mars, a source of endless fascination in human history
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1453 siege of Constantinople which ended the Byzantine Empire.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Hell and its representation in the arts.
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year long story of Indian Maths.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political creed of Anarchism.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein’s universe.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, a pivotal moment in England’s history.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2006.
The life and work of the brilliant, acerbic and unpopular poet Alexander Pope.
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Needham Question; why Europe, not China made modern technology.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events that helped trigger the European Reformation.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 12th century Islamic philosopher, Averroes.
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2006.
Melvyn Bragg explores comedy in Ancient Greek theatre including Aristophanes and Menander.
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss pastoral literature from Virgil to Dylan Thomas.
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the creation and destruction of galaxies.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Spanish Inquisition, defenders of medieval orthodoxy.
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss carbon, which forms the basis of all organic life.
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century anti-slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the heart.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the mathematical structures that lie within the heart of music.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2006.
The life and ideas of the 19th century political philosopher John Stuart Mill.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year cultural history of fairies.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the exhibition that showcased Victorian Britain's industrial might.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation and its impact on society.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Catholic movement within the Church of England.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German polymath, Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Emperor Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2006.
The history of the formation of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2006.
Melvyn Bragg considers the importance of the 17th century Spanish novel Don Quixote.
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss negative numbers, a history of mystery and suspicion.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2006.
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of friendship; ‘a single soul dwelling in two bodies’.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empress who transformed and modernized Russia.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the six million year old story of human evolution.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English literature.
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Abbasid Caliphs, rulers of the Islamic world for 200 years.
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the controversy and scandal of 17th century print culture.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines prime numbers and their mysterious role in the universe of numbers.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the importance of the oath in the Classical World.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the ‘Oresteia’, the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of heaven and the afterlife.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and the brutality of the British state.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2005.
Melvyn Bragg investigates artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the American philosophy of pragmatism.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2005.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the unique properties of asteroids.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2005.
The life and work of Samuel Johnson, a giant of 18th century literature.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cynics, the performance artists of philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Tudor conspicuous consumption.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and mysterious force of magnetism.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2005.
The life and ideas of Karl Marx who changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the life of glittering Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the mad man of the woods.
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the satirical 18th century Scriblerus Club.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of terror during the French Revolution.
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the qualities of beauty and the history of aesthetics.
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval tale of Abelard and Heloise.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘The Aeneid’, Virgil's great epic poem about Rome.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines King Alfred and the defeat of the Vikings at Battle of Edington.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2005.
The life and work of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heavenly host of Angels.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines recently discovered 'dark energy' and its effect on the universe.
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mad, bad world of modern utopias.
Published on Friday, 11th March 2005.
Melvyn Bragg explore Stoicism, the most influential philosophy in the Ancient World.
Published on Friday, 4th March 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2005.
The rise and eventual downfall of the Roman Republic which survived for 500 years.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myth of Faustus and temptation by evil.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2004.
The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2004.
The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2004.
The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2004.
The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2004.
The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato.
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Han Synthesis philosophies of China.
The life and work of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2004.
The history and legacy of the English army's defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monster filled epic, Homer’s Odyssey.
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the first President of the US and what drove him to revolution.
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
Published on Thursday, 10th June 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth behind the empire of Babylon.
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2004.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the politics behind the rise of religious freedom in England.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2004.
Melvyn Bragg explores what defines a hero, and their place in classical society.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss tea, the first truly global commodity.
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the concept of original sin and its influence in Christian Europe.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing productivity of the Chinese Golden Age.
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2004.
Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the myths and theology that inspired the Vikings.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine how much the British Raj owed to the Mughal Emperors.
Published on Wednesday, 25th February 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2004.
Melvyn Bragg explores a transcendental idea that took hold on the Age of Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 12th February 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Battle of Thermopylae, a defining clash between East and West.
Published on Thursday, 5th February 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and history of codes.
Published on Thursday, 29th January 2004.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French precursor to Darwin.
Published on Wednesday, 24th December 2003.
Melvyn Bragg investigates how sounds turned into signs and signs became the alphabet.
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines how the Devil became an established figure in Christianity.
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2003.
The life, work and legacy of the 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572.
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines duty, a concept that has excited philosophers through history.
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novels of sensation, a Victorian literary phenomenon.
Published on Thursday, 6th November 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the centuries old myth of the most romantic noble outlaw.
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the nature and existence of mathematical infinity.
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines events surrounding the medieval division of the Christian Church.
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Parisian philosophy of life lived for art.
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2003.
The work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist James Clerk Maxwell.
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines how a powerful narrative of judgement and retribution evolved.
Published on Thursday, 17th July 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to define humanity’s part in the natural world.
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation and eruption of volcanoes.
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2003.
The history of the private trading company that helped forge the British Empire.
Published on Monday, 23rd June 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins, power and eventual decline of the British aristocracy.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2003.
The history and philosophy of warfare throughout the ages.
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and significance of memory.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss blood, from medical progress to the link to the divine.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines why the Holy Grail legend has fascinated writers for centuries.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Stuart dynasty's final attempt to reclaim the throne of England.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 400 year history of the Romans in Britain.
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of concepts and ideas on youth from antiquity to today.
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2003.
The life and work of the celebrated 20th century French novelist Marcel Proust.
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the causes, events and repercussions of the Spanish Civil War.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life cycle of stars.
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the creative force of originality.
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss redemption, crucial for Judeo-Christian thought.
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2003.
Melvyn Bragg explores the fascinating and mystifying science of meteorology.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the creation, power and legacy of the Aztec Empire.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the manuscripts that united Celtic and Roman cultures in England.
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2003.
Melvyn Bragg explores the question and theories of a grand design in the universe.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2003.
The history of the epic, from Homer's Odyssey to Joyce’s Ulysses.
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2003.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the emergence and impact of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2002.
Melvyn Bragg investigates the creatives forces of the imagination.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines Muslim Spain, from Cordoba’s golden age to the fall of Granada.
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores Victorian realism and its focus on the ordinariness of life.
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether our natures are innate or defined by unbringing.
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ideas architecture expresses about our past and identity.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines British imperialism and its captives, both slaves and Britons.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between heritage culture and the study of history.
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of politics on psychoanalysis.
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2002.
Melvyn Bragg considers what it is to be free and how freedom became such a powerful value.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines how a dominant power can exert a cultural influence on its empire.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the position of Richard Wagner and his music in German culture.
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the myths and harsh reality of the 19th century American pioneers.
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2002.
The history of thought on immortality, the self and the afterlife.
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2002.
The origins and cultural impact of 18th century tourism.
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2002.
The history of the ancient kingdom and its religious, national and ethnic ideologies.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2002.
The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2002.
The life of Siddhartha Gautama and the legacy of his teachings.
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines what we really know about the Celts of pre-Roman Britain.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2002.
The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2002.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the ideas behind the 18th century literary cult of sensibility.
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2002.
The cultural history of food in Modern Europe since the Renaissance.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests assess the role that Rome has played in European civilization.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2001.
Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the chinese philosophy of Confucianism.
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2001.
The comparative histories of two titans of 19th century history.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins of the most cherished form of government in the world.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2001.
The culture, history and legacy of the eastern Byzantine Empire.
Published on Thursday, 19th July 2001.
The achievements and legacy of the 19th century literary giant Charles Dickens.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2001.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the 20th century philosophy of existentialism
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Sonnet, the most enduring form in the poet’s armoury.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2001.
The impact and legacy of the French Revolution on European culture and politics.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notion of evil in western philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2001.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether the events of 1688 were really glorious or revolutionary.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2001.
The causes and events of the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines the western understanding of the Philosophy of Love since Plato.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2001.
The significance of fossils in history and the impact of techniques in understanding them.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the enigma of the life of William Shakespeare
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether economic factors really are behind all historical events.
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2001.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the reign of Charles II and the consequences of the Restoration.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2001.
The history and legacy of classical Humanism, invented by Cicero.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2001.
Melvyn Bragg explores the areas of conflict and agreement between science and religion.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines the role of British thinkers in the 18th century Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2001.
The history of the philosophy that claims that truths are illusory.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2000.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2000.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the re-shaping of England as a modern state by the Tudor dynasty.
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2000.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany though historiographical theories.
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2000.
The history of London from its Neolithic origin to the digitalised capital city of today.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2000.
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines why the public is fascinated with the private lives of individuals.
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the true meaning of genius and whether it is born or made.
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2000.
The 15th century wars of the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare’s work that makes it universal.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are in a new era in the history of modern warfare.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we can ever predict the future by understanding the past.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2000.
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled his successes.
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid’s work Metamorphoses.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2000.
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2000.
The history of the politics, practice and process of reading.
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2000.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines how English republicanism has developed from Cromwell to today.
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between democracy and capitalism.
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2000.
Melvyn Bragg investigates the changing ideals of masculinity in 20th century literature.
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the purpose and effects of prayer.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the development and the future of the novel.
Published on Thursday, 11th November 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and the modern purpose of education.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the widespread and chilling inhumanity of the 20th century.
Published on Saturday, 23rd October 1999.
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of the individual from the Renaissance to today.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it is appropriate to think of the UK as a nation.
Published on Thursday, 14th October 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why we are as enthralled as ever by the idea of a Utopia.
Published on Thursday, 7th October 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether it is possible to apply mathematical logic to literature.
Published on Thursday, 30th September 1999.
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it matters if memoirs aren’t entirely truthful.
Published on Thursday, 15th July 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the roots of Africa's current political and social crises.
Published on Thursday, 8th July 1999.
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
Published on Thursday, 1st July 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.
Published on Thursday, 24th June 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the enduring strengths and current role of the British monarchy.
Published on Thursday, 10th June 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines where the idea of a just war originated and if it can still exist.
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century’s vast population and cultural shifts.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
Published on Thursday, 29th April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the roots and the consequences of religious fundamentalism.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether writers have a political role in modern society.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
Published on Thursday, 1st April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines what the architecture of the 20th century says about the age.
Published on Thursday, 25th March 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge.
Published on Thursday, 18th March 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of geography and ecology in shaping world history.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history and legacy of 20th Century Avant Garde painting.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the definition and state of modern culture in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the impact of Britain’s colonial past on its current identity.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don’t yet know about the brain.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines how legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines what impact globalisation has had on human rights.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 1998.
Melvyn Bragg considers the relevance of the study of history in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines the changing ideas about the function of work in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 1998.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 1998.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the innovative developments of the city in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 12th November 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 1998.
Melvyn Bragg discusses politics and morality with Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 1998.
Melvyn Bragg explores ideas that have influenced 20th century human rights and warfare.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 1998.
