Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early history of Bethlehem Hospital, known as Bedlam.
