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Euclid's Elements
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
The Muses
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.
The Gettysburg Address
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
Penicillin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
The Bronze Age Collapse
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Sovereignty
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.
The Invention of Photography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
Zeno's Paradoxes
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Lakshmi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.
Plasma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
The 12th Century Renaissance
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
John Dalton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
The Fighting Temeraire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
Justinian's Legal Code
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
Baltic Crusades
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
Harriet Martineau
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
The Gin Craze
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
Four Quartets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
Johannes Kepler
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Parasitism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
Hannah Arendt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
John Clare
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.