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The Gin Craze

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.

• 52 mins

Four Quartets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.

• 48 mins

Johannes Kepler

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.

• 48 mins

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.

• 48 mins

Mary, Queen of Scots

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.

• 52 mins

Parasitism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another

• 45 mins

Hannah Arendt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

• 47 mins

John Clare

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.

• 48 mins

Maths in the Early Islamic World

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.

• 49 mins

Seneca the Younger

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.

• 51 mins

The Kuiper Belt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.

• 48 mins

North and South

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.

• 48 mins

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.

• 49 mins

The Battle of Salamis

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.

• 50 mins

Hokusai

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

• 48 mins

Pauli's Exclusion Principle

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

• 48 mins

Rosa Luxemburg

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.

• 50 mins

Roger Bacon

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.

• 50 mins

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.

• 46 mins

The Battle of Lincoln 1217

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.

• 53 mins

Emily Dickinson

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.

• 48 mins

Louis Pasteur

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.

• 51 mins

Purgatory

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of Purgatory.

• 48 mins

Enzymes

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.

• 48 mins

Christine de Pizan

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).

• 50 mins

The American Populists

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.

• 49 mins

Eugene Onegin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.

• 49 mins

Plato's Republic

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great works of political and ethical theory.

• 48 mins

Bird Migration

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

• 51 mins

Kant's Categorical Imperative

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.

• 49 mins