Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mamluks, medieval rulers of Egypt and Syria.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 19th-century writer and campaigner Annie Besant.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra, the famed last pharaoh of Egypt.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Borgias, the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hadrian's Wall.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, important French economic thinkers.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian and soldier Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the dawn of the Iron Age.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand.
