Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.
45 mins
The evolution of copyright.
1 hr
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
57 mins
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
47 mins
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
52 mins
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.
50 mins
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
49 mins
Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought
59 mins
