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Coffee
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
Auden
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
Tutankhamun
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
Catullus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
Solar Wind
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
Alcuin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
George Sand
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
The Valladolid Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
The Evolution of Horses
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
Paul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Pericles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
Cave Art
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
Macbeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
Deism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Alan Turing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Maria Theresa
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
Piers Plowman
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
Mary Astell
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
Albrecht Dürer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.
The Zong Massacre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
Fernando Pessoa
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
John Wesley and Methodism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
The Cultural Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
Eclipses
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
The Great Gatsby
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
The Plague of Justinian
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
Saint Cuthbert
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
Emilie du Châtelet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.