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Released On: 08 May 2008

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The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.

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The Black Death
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
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Probability
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
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Lysenkoism
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
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The Riddle of the Sands
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.
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The Music of the Spheres
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
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The Arab Conquests
Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
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The Metaphysical Poets
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
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Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome
Melvyn Bragg examines the life and chronicles of the the Roman historian Tacitus.
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Miracles
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
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The Translation Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
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Vitalism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
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Dante's Inferno
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante鈥檚鈥業nferno鈥�, a medieval journey through Hell鈥檚 nine circles
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Bolivar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
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Aristotle's Politics
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Neuroscience
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
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The Baroque Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
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The Great Reform Act
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
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Heat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
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The Fire of London
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
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The Physics of Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.
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Thoreau and the American Idyll
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
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History of History
Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.
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Swift's A Modest Proposal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal
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The Brothers Grimm
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
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Carthage's Destruction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage
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The Observatory at Jaipur
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
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The Waste Land and Modernity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
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