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Released On: 18 Oct 2001

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Melvyn Bragg examines the origins of the most cherished form of government in the world.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the chinese philosophy of Confucianism.
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The British Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.
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Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
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Third Crusade
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.
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Genetics
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
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Rome and European Civilization
Melvyn Bragg and guests assess the role that Rome has played in European civilization.
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Food
The cultural history of food in Modern Europe since the Renaissance.
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Sensibility
Melvyn Bragg examines the ideas behind the 18th century literary cult of sensibility.
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Nuclear Physics
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
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Catharism
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.
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In Our Time
Happiness
Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.
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Yeats and Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
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The Universe's Shape
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
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Anatomy
The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
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The Celts
Melvyn Bragg examines what we really know about the Celts of pre-Roman Britain.
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Virtue
Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.
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Milton
Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.
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The Buddha
The life of Siddhartha Gautama and the legacy of his teachings.
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Marriage
The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
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The Artist
Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.
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Extra Terrestrials
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
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Bohemia
The history of the ancient kingdom and its religious, national and ethnic ideologies.
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Tolstoy
Melvyn Bragg explores the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
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The Physics of Reality
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
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The Examined Life
Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.
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Chaos Theory
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Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.
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