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Rousseau on Education

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children

• 51 mins

The Time Machine

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

• 51 mins

Robert Burns

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).

• 52 mins

Hybrids

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce

• 50 mins

The Treaty of Limerick

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691

• 52 mins

Crime and Punishment

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....

• 52 mins

Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem

• 52 mins

Li Shizhen

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty

• 51 mins

Lawrence of Arabia

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week

• 51 mins

Coffee

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact

• 55 mins

Auden

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

• 53 mins

Tutankhamun

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed

• 53 mins

Catullus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

• 52 mins

The Siege of Paris 1870-71

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune

• 52 mins

Solar Wind

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.

• 55 mins

Alcuin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th

• 56 mins

George Sand

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.

• 54 mins

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.

• 51 mins

The Valladolid Debate

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.

• 53 mins

The Evolution of Horses

Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.

• 50 mins

Paul Dirac

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.

• 50 mins

The Covenanters

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.

• 53 mins

Pericles

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.

• 48 mins

Cave Art

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.

• 48 mins

Macbeth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.

• 51 mins

Deism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.

• 48 mins

Alan Turing

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.

• 53 mins

Maria Theresa

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order

• 50 mins

Piers Plowman

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.

• 51 mins

Mary Astell

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 鈥� 1731).

• 51 mins