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The Baroque Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.
The Great Reform Act
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Heat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
The Fire of London
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
The Physics of Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.
Thoreau and the American Idyll
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
History of History
Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.
Swift's A Modest Proposal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal
The Brothers Grimm
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Carthage's Destruction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage
The Observatory at Jaipur
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
The Waste Land and Modernity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
The Measurement Problem in Physics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
The Library of Alexandria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
The Boxer Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
The School of Athens
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.
Baconian Science
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.
Suffragism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
The Building of St Petersburg
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.
The Vacuum of Space
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
The Magna Carta
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.
The Siege of Vienna
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Army.
The Whale - A History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
St Paul
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church.
The Trial of Charles I
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the trial of Charles I.
The Augustan Age
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Augustan Age in Rome.
Elizabethan Revenge
Melvyn Bragg discusses why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers.
Sunni and Shia Islam
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
Logical Positivism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.