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Empress Dowager Cixi

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.

• 50 mins

Marsilius of Padua

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas

• 56 mins

The Orkneyinga Saga

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.

• 51 mins

Fielding's Tom Jones

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.

• 54 mins

Karma

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.

• 50 mins

Monet in England

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.

• 50 mins

Bacteriophages

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

• 50 mins

Elizabeth Anscombe (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher

• 55 mins

Charisma (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership

• 53 mins

Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded

• 50 mins

Mitochondria (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.

• 51 mins

Benjamin Disraeli

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.

• 51 mins

Wormholes

Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.

• 60 mins

The Haymarket Affair

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

• 51 mins

Robert Graves

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.

• 54 mins

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

• 50 mins