Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the 18th Century gin craze.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ming Voyages of discovery.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
