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Condorcet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.
Nefertiti
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
Panpsychism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.
The Hanseatic League
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
Hormones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
The Sack of Rome 1527
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics
The Mokrani Revolt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
The Waltz
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
Julian the Apostate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
The Kalevala
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
Nikola Tesla
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.
Lysistrata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
Napoleon's Hundred Days
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
Bertolt Brecht
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
Philippa Foot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
Marsilius of Padua
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
The Orkneyinga Saga
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
Fielding's Tom Jones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
Karma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
Monet in England
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
Bacteriophages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
Benjamin Disraeli
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
Wormholes
Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.
The Haymarket Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
