How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2025.
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
Published on Thursday, 29th 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.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
Published on Thursday, 10th April 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 day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 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 the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
Published on Thursday, 12th 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 the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
Published on Thursday, 31st 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 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 Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
Published on Thursday, 16th May 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 a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 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 the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
Published on Thursday, 29th 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 the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
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 Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
Published on Thursday, 9th 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 the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
Published on Thursday, 22nd 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 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 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 what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
Published on Thursday, 30th 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 the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
Published on Thursday, 26th 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 speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
Published on Thursday, 15th 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 the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 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 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
Published on Thursday, 16th 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 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 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 the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 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 one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
Published on Thursday, 23rd 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 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 the Greek writer known as the father of history.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 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 the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
Published on Thursday, 27th 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 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 life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 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 Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
Published on Thursday, 17th 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 woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
Published on Thursday, 22nd 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 Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 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 scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
Published on Thursday, 30th 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 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
Published on Thursday, 26th 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 the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
Published on Thursday, 7th November 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 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 Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
Published on Thursday, 30th 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 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 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.
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 Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
Published on Thursday, 20th 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 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 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 the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
Published on Thursday, 28th 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 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 one of the great empires of the Islamic west.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 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 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 life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 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 the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
Published on Thursday, 14th December 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 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 the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Published on Thursday, 5th October 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 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 the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
Published on Thursday, 23rd 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 history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Published on Thursday, 29th 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 the Bronze Age collapse.
Published on Thursday, 16th 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 Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 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 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 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 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 Salem witch trials.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire of Mali.
Published on Thursday, 29th 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 Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
Published on Thursday, 4th June 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 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 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 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 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 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 Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
Published on Thursday, 23rd 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 the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
Published on Thursday, 26th 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 Second Sino-Japanese War.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 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 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 Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 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 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 his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 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 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 Mamluks, medieval rulers of Egypt and Syria.
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, important French economic thinkers.
Published on Thursday, 20th 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 Putney Debates of 1647.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
Published on Thursday, 14th 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 the South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Borgias, the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 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 guests discuss the Druids of ancient Europe.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hadrian's Wall.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 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 the An Lushan Rebellion.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 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 Ming Voyages of discovery.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 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 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 the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 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 the Taiping Rebellion.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Published on Thursday, 20th 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 Cleopatra, the famed last pharaoh of Egypt.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings.
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2010.
