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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76