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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.

Melvyn Bragg discusses why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Chinese book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.

How making signs on clay, wood or parchment enabled the development of human culture.

How the invention of writing made the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of metaphor.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

How the written word, originally used for accountancy, gave rise to human literature.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian epic poem, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 19th-century writer and campaigner Annie Besant.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Caxton and the influence of the printing press.