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Rudolph II
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.
The Social Contract
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
The Statue of Liberty
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .
The Multiverse
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
Lear
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
Ada Lovelace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
The Greek Myths
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
Kierkegaard
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The Laws of Motion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
The Norman Yoke
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘the Norman Yoke'.
Yeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
Materialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.
The Enclosures of the 18th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
The Brain
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
The Library at Nineveh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
The Black Death
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
Probability
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
Lysenkoism
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
The Riddle of the Sands
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.
The Music of the Spheres
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
The Arab Conquests
Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
The Metaphysical Poets
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome
Melvyn Bragg examines the life and chronicles of the the Roman historian Tacitus.
Miracles
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
The Translation Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Vitalism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
Dante's Inferno
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles
Bolivar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
Aristotle's Politics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle’s ‘Politics’.