History Podcast
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Episodes to download
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Angkor Wat
Thu 23 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
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Comenius
Thu 19 May 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
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The Davidian Revolution
Thu 5 May 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
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Olympe de Gouges
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
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Homo erectus
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
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Fri 4 Mar 2022
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The Arthashastra
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.
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Peter Kropotkin
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid
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The Temperance Movement
Thu 3 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
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The Gold Standard
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
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The Hittites
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
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The May Fourth Movement
Thu 9 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
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The Battle of Trafalgar
Thu 2 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.
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The Manhattan Project
Thu 7 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
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Herodotus
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
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Edward Gibbon
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Booth's Life and Labour Survey
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.
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The Interregnum
Thu 27 May 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
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The Second Barons' War
Thu 6 May 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces
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Ovid
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
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The Franco-American Alliance 1778
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Thu 8 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
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The Russo-Japanese War
Thu 1 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
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David Ricardo
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
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Marcus Aurelius
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
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The Plague of Justinian
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
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The Cultural Revolution
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
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The Zong Massacre
Thu 26 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
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Maria Theresa
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
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