BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

The Ming Voyages

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ming Voyages of discovery.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Scottish philosopher David Hume.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Etruscan civilisation.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Japanese belief system of Shinto.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Minoan Civilisation of Bronze Age Crete.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malthusianism.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss John Wyclif and the Lollards.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease.