History Podcast
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Episodes to download
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The Fable of the Bees
Thu 25 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
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The Mexican-American War
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
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Montesquieu
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
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Persepolis
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
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Margaret of Anjou
Thu 24 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses
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The Emancipation of the Serfs
Thu 17 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.
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The Almoravid Empire
Thu 3 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.
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Roman Slavery
Thu 5 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.
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Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Thu 22 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.
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The Highland Clearances
Thu 8 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Sun Tzu and The Art of War
Thu 1 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.
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Frederick Douglass
Thu 8 Feb 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.
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The Siege of Malta, 1565
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.
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Thomas Becket
Thu 14 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
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Thebes
Thu 23 Nov 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek city of Thebes in myth, drama and history.
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Picasso's Guernica
Thu 2 Nov 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
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The Congress of Vienna
Thu 19 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.
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Constantine the Great
Thu 5 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
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The American Populists
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.
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The Battle of Lincoln 1217
Thu 4 May 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Thu 27 Apr 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Thu 13 Apr 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
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The Battle of Salamis
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
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Seneca the Younger
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Thu 19 Jan 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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