Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the 12th-century English civil war.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Druids of ancient Europe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty of early modern Iran.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and myth of the Samurai.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, published in 1759.
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare鈥檚 bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
