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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.

• 52 mins

The Antikythera Mechanism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.

• 50 mins

Italo Calvino

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist

• 48 mins

The Hanoverian Succession

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.

• 50 mins

Nizami Ganjavi

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.

• 52 mins

The Habitability of Planets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

• 52 mins

Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work

• 56 mins