Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
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 difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
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 celebrated French novelist, her life and work.