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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal

Melvyn Bragg discuss how the writing of history has changed over the years.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.

Melvyn Bragg and discusses Neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle’s ‘Politics’.

Melvyn Bragg discussess Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America

Melvyn Bragg discusses Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles

Melvyn Bragg discusses Vitalism, the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of miracles.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Roman historian Tacitus, a chronciler of Roman decadence

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ about Anglo-German relations

Melvyn Bragg discusses the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the strange mathematics of probability.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Library at Nineveh, a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the cultural and medical history of the human brain.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘the Norman Yoke'.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the rich and radical ideas of Soren Kierkegaard.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’ Ada Lovelace.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Social Contract – a key idea in political philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.

Melvyn Bragg discusses plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.

Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Wordsworth’s poem The Predule.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Persian Islamic philosopher Avicenna.

Melvyn Bragg and guests take a long hard look at the idea of guilt.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th century obsession with taste.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the myths, tales and legends of the Arabian Nights.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea that kingly authority derives from God.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Antimatter in particle physics and cosmology.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the iconic Greek philosopher, Socrates.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1857 trial of Gustave Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary

Melvyn Bragg discusses what the Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower mean to Americans.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss common sense philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Joan of Arc's role in the 1428 Siege of Orléans.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the high pessimism of Victorian culture.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Dutch, Jewish and Christian Philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Greek and Roman love poetry.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 19th century Opium Wars between Britain and China.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 7th century abbess, St Hilda.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck.

Melvyn Bragg discusses epistolary literature from Aphra Benn to Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics

Melvyn Bragg examines the life of anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek mathematician Archimedes and his famous cry of “eureka!”

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, “the school masters of Europe”.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1453 siege of Constantinople which ended the Byzantine Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of Hell and its representation in the arts.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 5000 year long story of Indian Maths.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the political creed of Anarchism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein’s universe

Melvyn Bragg discusses philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt

Melvyn Bragg discusses the brilliant, acerbic and unpopular poet Alexander Pope.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Poincaré Conjecture and the mathematics of topology.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the French encyclopédie; the Enlightenment in book form.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Needham Question; why Europe, not China made modern technology

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Diet of Worms, an event that helped trigger the Reformation

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 12th century Islamic philosopher, Averroes

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.

Melvyn Bragg discusses comedy in Ancient Greek theatre including Aristophanes and Menander

Melvyn Bragg discusses pastoral literature from Virgil to Dylan Thomas

Melvyn Bragg discusses the creation and destruction of galaxies.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Spanish Inquisition, defenders of medieval orthodoxy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science of Carbon.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the anti slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of ideas about the heart.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical structures that lie within the heart of music.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the great political philosopher John Stuart Mill.

Melvyn Bragg discusses a 5000 year cultural history of fairies.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial Expansion.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1851 Great Exhibition housed in the magnificent Crystal Palace.

Melvyn Bragg discusses immunisation and Edward Jenner’s breakthrough with vaccination.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Oxford Movement in the 19th century Church of England.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the great German polymath, Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Emperor Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy.

Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of the 17th century Spanish novel Don Quixote.

Melvyn Bragg discusses negative numbers, a history of mystery and suspicion.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the concept of friendship, ‘a single soul dwelling in two bodies’.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Catherine the Great who transformed and modernized Russia.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the story of human evolution.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English literature.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Abbasid Caliphs, rulers of the Islamic world for 200 years.

Melvyn Bragg discusses controversy, argument and scandal in 17th century print culture.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Relativism, a philosophy with no absolute truths.

Melvyn Bragg examines prime numbers and their mysterious role in the universe of numbers.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the importance of the oath in the Classical World.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ‘Oresteia’, the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus.

Melvyn Bragg discusses ideas of heaven and the afterlife.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and the brutality of the British state.

Melvyn Bragg discusses artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?

Melvyn Bragg discusses the great 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the search for the Graviton particle in physics.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the American philosophy of pragmatism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the unique properties of asteroids.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Samuel Johnson, a giant of 18th century literature.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Cynics, the performance artists of philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Tudor conspicuous consumption.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of magnetism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Karl Marx who changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the glittering Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the mad man of the woods.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the satirical 18th century Scriblerus Club.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the reign of terror during the French Revolution.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the qualities of beauty and the history of aesthetics.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Abelard and Heloise, a tale of love, philosophy and scandal.

Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.

Melvyn Bragg discusses ‘The Aeneid’, Virgil's great epic poem about Rome.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the link between archaeology and imperialism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses King Alfred and the defeat of the Vikings at Battle of Edington.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of the art critic John Ruskin.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the heavenly host of Angels.

Melvyn Bragg discusses 'dark energy' and its effects on the universe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the mad, bad world of modern utopias.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Stoicism, the most influential philosophy in the Ancient World.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the myth of Faustus and temptation by evil.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the extraordinary mind of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Venerable Bede who revolutionised history and scholarship.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Higgs Boson; the God particle.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the dawn of the age of electricity.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato.

Melvyn Bragg discusses witchcraft in Reformation Europe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Han Synthesis philosophies of China.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.

Melvyn Bragg discusses when and how life on earth originated.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the English army's defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the monster filled epic, Homer’s Odyssey.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the first President of the US and what drove him to revolution.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Renaissance obsession with Magic.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the truth behind the empire of Babylon.

Melvyn Bragg discusses our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the politics behind the rise of religious freedom in England.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.

Melvyn Bragg discusses what defines a hero, and their place in classical society.

Melvyn Bragg discusses tea, the first truly global commodity.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the concept of original sin and its influence in Christian Europe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the astonishing productivity of the Chinese Golden Age.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the myths and theology that inspired the Vikings.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the function and interpretation of dreams.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how much the British Raj owed to the Mughal Emperors.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.

Melvyn Bragg discusses a transcendental idea that took hold on the Age of Enlightenment.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Battle of Thermopylae, a defining clash between East and West.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins and history of codes.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French precursor to Darwin.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how sounds turned into signs and signs became the alphabet.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how the Devil became an established figure in Christianity.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life, work and legacy of the 20th century philosopher.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572.

Melvyn Bragg discuses the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.

Melvyn Bragg discusses duty, a concept that has excited philosophers through history.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the novels of sensation, a Victorian literary phenomenon.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the centuries old myth of the most romantic noble outlaw.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the nature and existence of mathematical infinity.

Melvyn Bragg discusses events surrounding the medieval division of the Christian Church.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 19th century Parisian philosophy of life lived for art.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how this powerful narrative of judgement and retribution evolved.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the attempt to define humanity’s part in the natural world.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the formation and eruption of volcanoes.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the private trading company that helped forge the British Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins, power and eventual decline of the British aristocracy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history and philosophy of warfare throughout the ages.

Melvyn Bragg discusses an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the function and significance of memory.

Melvyn Bragg discusses blood from medical progress to the link to the divine.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the sacred allure of the Holy Grail.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the disastrous and tragic Jacobite Rebellion.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Romans in Britain, a history of 400 years of occupation.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of concepts and ideas on youth from antiquity to today.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of 19th century French novelist Marcel Proust.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the causes, events and repercussions of the Spanish Civil War.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life cycle of stars.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the creative force of originality.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Redemption, crucial for Judeo-Christian thought.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the fascinating science of meteorology.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the creation, power and legacy of the Aztec Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the manuscripts that united Celtic and Roman cultures in England.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the question and theories of a grand design in the universe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the epic, from Homer’s Odyssey to Joyce’s Ulysses.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the emergence and impact of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the creatives forces of the imagination.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Muslim Spain, a culture that lasted 700 years.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Victorian realism and its focus on the ordinariness of life.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the vexing issue of human nature.

Melvyn Bragg discusses what ideas architecture expresses about our past and identity.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origin of the concept and historical role of the scientist.

Melvyn Bragg discusses British imperialism and its captives, both slaves and Britons.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the relationship between heritage culture and the study of history.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of politics on psychoanalysis.

Melvyn Bragg discusses what it is to be free and how freedom became such a powerful value.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how a dominant power can exert a cultural influence on its empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the position of Richard Wagner and his music in German culture.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the myths and harsh reality of the 19th century American pioneers.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of thought on immortality, the self and the afterlife.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins and cultural impact of 18th century tourism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the former centre of the Holy Roman Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history and changing the status of the artist.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of marriage from ancient Greek times to today.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life of Siddhartha Gautama and the legacy of his teachings.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.

Melvyn Bragg discusses what we really know about the Celts of pre-Roman Britain.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of mankind’s quest to understand the human body.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.

Melvyn Bragg discusses whether ‘happiness’ means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the philosophy of the 18th century literary cult of sensibility.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of food in Modern Europe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the development of the science of genetics.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetes.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the science of Oceanography.

Melvyn Bragg discusses surrealism, the art of the unconscious.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the philosophy of Confucius.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the histories of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of democracy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the culture, history and legacy of the eastern Byzantine Empire.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the achievements and legacy of Charles Dickens.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 20th century philosophy of existentialism

Melvyn Bragg discusses the Sonnet, the most enduring form in the poet’s armoury.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the legacy of the French Revolution.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the notion of evil in western philosophy.

Melvyn Bragg discusses literary modernism: revolutionary or just obscure?

Melvyn Bragg discusses the the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Melvyn Bragg discusses Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the philosophy of love.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the significance of fossils.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the enigma of the life of William Shakespeare

Melvyn Bragg discusses the power of Money.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the reign of Charles II and the consequences of the Restoration.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history and legacy of classical Humanism, invented by Cicero.

Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the areas of conflict and agreement between science and religion.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the role of British thinkers in the 18th century Enlightenment.

Melvyn Bragg discusses whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the philosophy that claims that truths are illusory.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the re-shaping of England as a modern state by the Tudor dynasty.

Melvyn Bragg discusses whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.

Melvyn Bragg examines Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany though historiographical theories.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of London from its Neolithic origin to the present day.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.

Melvyn Bragg examines why the public is fascinated with the private lives of individuals.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the true meaning of genius and whether it is born or made.

Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.

Melvyn Bragg examines the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.

Melvyn Bragg discusses chemistry’s ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the 15th century wars of the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.

Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare’s work that makes it universal.

Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the evolution of the human species.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the characteristics of the English identity.

Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are in a new era in the history of modern warfare.

Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.

Melvyn Bragg examines whether we can ever predict the future by understanding the past.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the development and future of material culture.

Melvyn Bragg discusses what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled his successes.

Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid’s work Metamorphoses.

Melvyn Bragg discusses 20th century Physics’ quest for the ultimate theory of everything.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history, politics and practice of reading.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how English republicanism has developed from Cromwell to today.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the relationship between democracy and capitalism.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the changing ideals of masculinity in 20th century literature.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.

Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time.

Melvyn Bragg examines the purpose and effects of prayer.

Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.

Melvyn Bragg discusses how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.

Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time.

Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.

Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the development and the future of the novel.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history and the modern purpose of education.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the widespread and chilling inhumanity of the 20th century.

Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of the individual from the Renaissance to today.

Melvyn Bragg discusses whether it is appropriate to think of the UK as a nation.

Melvyn Bragg examines whether it is possible to apply mathematical logic to literature.

Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.