Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion on the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who...

Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion on cosmic rays, the highly energetic subatomic particles that...

Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion on the Icelanding Sagas with academics Carolyne Larrington,...

Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion on Gnosticism, a second-century Christian movement whose...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of 16th-century French writer and...

Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion on the Putney Debates, when for two months in 1647...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, a formidable female warrior race first described...

Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion on Japan's Sakoku period, an era when the country deliberately...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, a substance that covers more than two-thirds of the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who was born in 1823...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who was born...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Simon Schaffer, Stephen Blundell and Nicola Wilkin to discuss...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of Victorian anthropologist and archaeologist Augustus...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall. Published when the...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss ice ages - periods when a reduction in the surface...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Epicureanism, a philosophical system founded in the fourth...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the conflict in 1812 between the United States of America and...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of twin boys Romulus and Remus on which Rome is...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss comets, which are made of materials from when the solar system...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, the epic tale of King...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the latest archaeological finds shedding light on the cult of...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the South Sea Bubble, the speculation-mania that gripped...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, which has been at...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests examine the legacy of British thinker Bertrand Russell, regarded as...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of crystallography, a scientific discipline that...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power and influence of the Borgias, the infamous Italian...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the achievements of French philosopher and social activist...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Upanishads, the ancient sacred texts of Hinduism and...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests examine the Anarchy, the civil war which took place in 12th-century...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fermat's last theorem, a mathematical challenge regarding the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of William Caxton, the man who brought...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and achievements of Carthaginian general Hannibal,...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and achievements of medieval scholar Gerald of Wales,...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ontological argument, a series of theories raised by St...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests examine the history and legacy of the Druids, Celtic priests,...

The debate series presented by Melvyn Bragg returns, as he and his guests discuss the origins...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss recent archaeological discoveries that are shedding new...

Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the traits of philosophical scepticism, an influential...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of 9th-century philosopher Al-Kindi. Heavily...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of political activist and writer Annie Besant, who was...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's Ulysses, which was published in Paris in 1922....

Melvyn Bragg and his guests examine the importance of Solomon, a biblical King of Israel, who...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Trojan War, one of the key events of ancient Greek...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and travels of 13th-century Venetian explorer...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss On War, a treatise on warfare written by 19th-century Prussian...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the systematic study of human behaviour, a...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Voltaire's novel Candide, which was first published in 1759 and...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bosworth Field, the clash between Lancastrian...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins and influence of Neoplatonism, a modern term...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emergence of geology during the Renaissance, when a few...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests explore the origins of Quakerism. They discuss 17th-century...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss how time has been measured, from early civilisations when...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of 18th-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A...

Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate Vitruvius' De architectura, a 10-volume treatise offering...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the collection of poems by William...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin. The printer, statesman,...

Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the physics of electrical conduction, including...

Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the An Lushan Rebellion in the 8th century, which saw the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the life and work of Desiderius Erasmus. The Dutch humanist...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra, a collection of writings about the art of...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by a panel of guests to discuss the scientific method, a systematic and...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the 1848 revolutions across...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty, the powerful rulers of early modern...

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the story of macromolecules, long chains of atoms which form...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the literary and moral merits of Daniel Defoe's adventure...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Concordat of Worms, the treaty signed in 1122 between...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of fifth-century BC Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Victorian poet Christina Rossetti. Born...

Melvyn Bragg and guests delve into the story of Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus, who led his...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy in...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests Stephen Mulhall, Beatrice Han-Pile, and Hans Johann-Glock discuss...

Melvyn Bragg and guests focus on the science and mythology of the moon. Earth's satellite has...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Tenochtitlan, an event which precipitated the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the meaning and significance of the painting Liberty Leading...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ming Voyages, 15th-century naval expeditions led by Chinese...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of philosopher David Hume, a key figure of empiricism...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the sophisticated Etruscan civilisation that emerged in...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shinto, a system of belief that has no scriptures or founder,...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath, an ethical code for doctors and one of...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete, the remains of...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam, which was published...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the Rev Thomas Malthus, whose 1798 publication An...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of medieval philosopher John Wyclif, who made a major...

Melvyn Bragg and guests including geneticist Steve Jones and professor Mark Pallen discuss the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in which English forces under...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of Xenophon, an Athenian soldier and writer born...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a fight between Native...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Robert Burton's book The Anatomy of Melancholy, which was...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and early development of Islamic law, also known as...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical statement cogito ergo sum, the Latin...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the controversy caused in the late fourth century by British...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutrino, a sub-atomic particle produced in trillions by...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of Victorian reformer Octavia Hill, who was a pioneer...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse section of Sanskrit text the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the Iron Age in Europe, which emerged after the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emergence of universities in medieval times. The first...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of free will in the 500th edition of the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests including the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees discuss the age of the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion, which sparked the 14-year Chinese civil...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work and influence of Maimonides, who is widely regarded as...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and science of the nervous system, the network of...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, when Robert the Bruce...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics, the first and arguably the most...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Mexican revolution of 1910, an uprising that lasted 10...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy, the University of St Andrews'...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a major work that made him...

Part two of two. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the far-reaching consequences of the...

Part one of two. Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Industrial Revolution, a period of...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Taoism - an ancient Chinese belief system encompassing both...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential work of technological pioneer Thomas Edison,...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Cleopatra, the last pharaoh to rule Egypt, whose intelligence...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of metaphor, a figure of speech in which one thing...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which became powerful Church...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Volga Vikings, a group of Norsemen that travelled to Russia...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science. During...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn. The horse-like...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of logic - the study of reasoning and argument that...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th-century German artistic movement known as Sturm und...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Armada, the fleet that tried to invade Elizabethan...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle, widely regarded as the most important...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Marcus du Sautoy and Ian Stewart to discuss imaginary numbers -...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Historia Naturalis, a comprehensive encyclopedia of...

Sarah Foot and Richard Gameson join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the reign of Athelstan, the first...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Antarctica, exploring its geology and physical...

Melvyn Bragg and guests, including geneticist Professor Steve Jones, discuss the evolution and...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian traveller, scientist and historian Al-Biruni and...

Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the history of ideas.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biographer Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

Simon Schaffer and Patricia Fara join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the scientific achievements of...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Cool Universe.

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Julia Lovell, lecturer in Chinese History at Birkbeck College, Rana...

Classicist and Cambridge professor Mary Beard joins Melvyn Bragg to discuss Roman satire.

Saul David, Shula Marks and Saul Dubow join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the rise and fall of the...

Jonathan Bate, Uttara Natarajan and AC Grayling join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the life and works...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Peter Hall, Tristram Hunt and Ricky Burdett to discuss how George...

Part one of two. Peter Hall, Julia Merritt and Greg Woolf join Melvyn Bragg to begin a...

Melvyn Bragg and guests David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe and Alastair Wright discuss Edvard Munch's...

Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Juliette Wood and Richard Hingley join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the life...

Melvyn Bragg and professors Usha Goswami and Denis Mareschal discuss recent research into the...

Melvyn Bragg and guests Justin Champion, Susan Hardman-Moore and Diarmaid MacCulloch explore...

Melvyn Bragg and guests Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila and Chandrika Kaul discuss the Indian...

Melvyn Bragg and guests Marcus Du Sautoy, John Barrow and Colva Roney-Dougal discuss...

Robert Irwin, Robert Hoyland and Hugh Kennedy join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the Arab historian...

Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and Valentine Cunningham join Melvyn Bragg to discuss George...

Karin Bowie, Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the Glencoe Massacre...

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Frankfurt School, a group of influential German thinkers who argued...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and Barbara Taylor to discuss the ideas of...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise, fall and legacy of the samurai.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas attributed to Greek mathematician and philosopher...

Melvyn Bragg and discusses the Silk Road, the trade route that connected European and Asian...

Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Declan Kiberd join Melvyn Bragg to discuss A Portrait of the...

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and Angie Hobbs to investigate the history...

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lucy Wooding and Charlotte Methuen join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the 1534...

AC Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and Christopher Janaway join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the dark,...

Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and Sanjeev Gupta join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the geological...

John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen Hackett join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the death of Queen...

Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and Robert Tombs join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the Dreyfus Affair,...

Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson and Kate Spence join Melvyn Bragg to discuss Akhenaten, the...

Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer and Jackie Stedall join Melvyn Bragg to discuss the battle...