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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
The Brothers Grimm
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Carthage's Destruction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage
The Observatory at Jaipur
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
The Waste Land and Modernity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
The Measurement Problem in Physics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
The Library of Alexandria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
The Boxer Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
The School of Athens
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.
Baconian Science
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.
Suffragism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
The Building of St Petersburg
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.
The Vacuum of Space
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
The Magna Carta
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.