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The Tempest
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Pocahontas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
The Microscope
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
Hindu Ideas of Creation
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hindu ideas about the creation of the universe.
Pliny the Younger
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
Complexity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
The Medici
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Plato's Symposium
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium.
The Battle of Tours
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Tours of 732.
Sources of Early Chinese History
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the sources for early Chinese history.
Catastrophism
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.
The Phoenicians
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians of the ancient Mediterranean.
Chivalry
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss medieval chivalry.
Social Darwinism
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
The Eye
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
Spartacus
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.
The Trinity
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity.
Bishop Berkeley
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.
Weber's The Protestant Ethic
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
States of Matter
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
Strabo's Geographica
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.
The Domesday Book
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.
Tristram Shandy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.
The Tale of Sinuhe
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.
The Sino-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Photosynthesis
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The Talmud
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.
The Bluestockings
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
Robert Boyle
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
The Philosophy of Solitude
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.