Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book. Read more
now playing
The Domesday Book
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.
Tristram Shandy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.
The Tale of Sinuhe
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.
The Sino-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Photosynthesis
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The Talmud
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.
The Bluestockings
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
Robert Boyle
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
The Philosophy of Solitude
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
Hildegard of Bingen
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
Mrs Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
The Sun
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
The Royal Society and British Science
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
e
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
Julius Caesar
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and reputation of Julius Caesar.
The Battle of Talas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.
Rudyard Kipling
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
The Haitian Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
Nuclear Fusion
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
Hatshepsut
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Brunel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Aesop
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables
Kafka's The Trial
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
Zen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
Behavioural Ecology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
Truth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.
Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bruegel's painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.