Pope Joan

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.

• 46 mins

Sir John Soane

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.

• 53 mins

Catherine of Aragon

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.

• 52 mins

Oliver Goldsmith

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.

• 54 mins

Kali

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms

• 57 mins

Pollination

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.

• 50 mins

Cyrus the Great

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.

• 50 mins

Thomas Middleton

The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare

• 56 mins

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought

• 59 mins

The Gracchi

Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.

• 49 mins

The Battle of Clontarf

Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

• 51 mins

Typology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.

• 50 mins

Molière

The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

• 50 mins