Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman of her time.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Salem witch trials.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire of Mali.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lancashire cotton famine during the American Civil War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and significance of eunuchs.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's economic treatise The Wealth of Nations.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Indian ruler Ashoka the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
