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The Siege of Tenochtitlan

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Siege of Tenochtitlan and fall of the Aztec Empire

• 42 mins

The Moon

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon.

• 42 mins

The Continental-Analytic Split

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Continental and Analytic philosophical traditions.

• 42 mins

Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ptolemy and ancient astronomy.

• 41 mins

Judas Maccabeus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus.

• 42 mins

Christina Rossetti

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

• 41 mins

Heraclitus

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.

• 41 mins

The Concordat of Worms

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Concordat of Worms of 1122.

• 41 mins

Robinson Crusoe

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

• 42 mins

Macromolecules

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the giant molecules that underpin all life.

• 42 mins

The Safavid Dynasty

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty of early modern Iran.

• 42 mins

The Written World

Episode 1

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

• 30 mins

The Written World

Episode 2

Melvyn considers the impact of the invention of the book.

• 30 mins

The Written World

Episode 3

How the invention of writing influenced the spread of religion.

• 28 mins

The Written World

Literature

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

• 30 mins

The Written World

Episode 5

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

• 30 mins

1848: Year of Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution.

• 45 mins

The Scientific Method

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.

• 42 mins

The Kama Sutra

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra.

• 42 mins

Erasmus

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus.

• 41 mins

The An Lushan Rebellion

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the An Lushan Rebellion.

• 42 mins

Conductors and Semiconductors

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of electrical conduction.

• 41 mins

Benjamin Franklin

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.

• 42 mins

Lyrical Ballads

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

• 42 mins

Vitruvius and De Architectura

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Vitruvius's De Architectura.

• 42 mins

Moses Mendelssohn

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

• 42 mins

The Measurement of Time

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time.

• 41 mins

George Fox and the Quakers

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of Quakerism.

• 41 mins

Early Geology

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline.

• 42 mins

Neoplatonism

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient philosophical school of Neoplatonism.

• 41 mins