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Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
Philippa Foot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
Marsilius of Padua
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
The Orkneyinga Saga
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
Fielding's Tom Jones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
Karma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
Monet in England
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
Bacteriophages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
Elizabeth Anscombe (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher
Charisma (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded
Mitochondria (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
Wormholes
Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.
The Haymarket Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny