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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’.
Neuroscience
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
The Baroque Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
The Great Reform Act
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Heat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
The Fire of London
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
The Physics of Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.
Thoreau and the American Idyll
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
History of History
Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.
Swift's A Modest Proposal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal