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Bacteriophages

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

• 50 mins

Mitochondria (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.

• 51 mins

Benjamin Disraeli

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.

• 51 mins

Wormholes

Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.

• 60 mins

The Haymarket Affair

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

• 51 mins

Robert Graves

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.

• 54 mins

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

• 50 mins

Little Women

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

• 48 mins

The Venetian Empire

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.

• 51 mins

George Herbert

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.

• 50 mins