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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.