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The Gracchi
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
The Battle of Clontarf
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
Typology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.
Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
Lise Meitner
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
Copyright
The evolution of copyright.
Paul von Hindenburg
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
Hypnosis
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.
The Vienna Secession
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.
The Evolution of Lungs
From the mechanics of the first breaths on Earth to the reason we hiccup.
