Corals

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.

• 51 mins

The Song of Roland

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.

• 51 mins

William and Caroline Herschel

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy

• 50 mins

The Decadent Movement

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.

• 51 mins

Plato's Gorgias

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's exploration of the nature of power and freedom.

• 50 mins

The Battle of Trafalgar

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.

• 51 mins

The May Fourth Movement

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.

• 52 mins

A Christmas Carol

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.

• 56 mins

The Hittites

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.

• 52 mins

Fritz Lang

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.

• 55 mins

Thomas Hardy's Poetry

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

• 50 mins

The Gold Standard

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold

• 49 mins

Colette

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.

• 51 mins

The Temperance Movement

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.

• 52 mins

Walter Benjamin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.

• 50 mins

Romeo and Juliet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona

• 50 mins

Peter Kropotkin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid

• 51 mins

The Arthashastra

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.

• 56 mins

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• 1 min

Seismology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.

• 49 mins

Charisma

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

• 52 mins

Antigone

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.

• 54 mins

The Sistine Chapel

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.

• 55 mins

Polidori's The Vampyre

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales

• 51 mins

Homo erectus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.

• 51 mins

Olympe de Gouges

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791

• 49 mins

Early Christian Martyrdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.

• 53 mins

The Davidian Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153

• 50 mins

Tang Era Poetry

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.

• 46 mins

Comenius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.

• 56 mins