Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and reputation of Julius Caesar.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss medieval chivalry.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians of the ancient Mediterranean.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Tours of 732.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the An Lushan Rebellion.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the remarkable Carthaginian general Hannibal.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Druids of ancient Europe.
