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The Battle of Tours

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Tours of 732.

• 42 mins

Sources of Early Chinese History

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history.

• 42 mins

Catastrophism

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.

• 41 mins

The Phoenicians

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians of the ancient Mediterranean.

• 41 mins

Chivalry

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss medieval chivalry.

• 42 mins

Social Darwinism

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.

• 41 mins

The Eye

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.

• 42 mins

Spartacus

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.

• 43 mins

The Trinity

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity.

• 42 mins

Bishop Berkeley

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.

• 47 mins

Weber's The Protestant Ethic

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

• 50 mins

States of Matter

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.

• 47 mins

Strabo's Geographica

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.

• 47 mins

The Domesday Book

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.

• 47 mins

Tristram Shandy

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.

• 47 mins

The Tale of Sinuhe

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.

• 47 mins

The Sino-Japanese War

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.

• 46 mins

Photosynthesis

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.

• 46 mins

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

• 47 mins

The Talmud

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.

• 47 mins

The Bluestockings

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.

• 46 mins

Robert Boyle

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.

• 46 mins

The Philosophy of Solitude

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.

• 43 mins

Hildegard of Bingen

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.

• 44 mins

Mrs Dalloway

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.

• 45 mins

The Sun

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.

• 43 mins

The Royal Society and British Science

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1

Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.

• 45 mins

The Royal Society and British Science

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2

How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.

• 45 mins

The Royal Society and British Science

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3

The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.

• 45 mins

The Royal Society and British Science

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4

The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.

• 45 mins