Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Gnosticism, a sect associated with early Christianity.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heavenly host of Angels.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Quakerism.
Melvyn Bragg examines Muslim Spain, from Cordoba’s golden age to the fall of Granada.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans.
How the written word, originally used for accountancy, gave rise to human literature.
Melvyn Bragg examines the purpose and effects of prayer.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biblical king Solomon.
The history and legacy of classical Humanism, invented by Cicero.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss prophecy in the Abrahamic religions.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of John Calvin and their impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss blood, from medical progress to the link to the divine.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of heaven and the afterlife.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Hell and its representation in the arts.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
