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The Knights Templar

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.

• 49 mins

Berthe Morisot

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism

• 60 mins

The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.

• 55 mins

Wilfred Owen

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.

• 56 mins

The Morant Bay Rebellion

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.

• 53 mins

Bauhaus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.

• 56 mins

Demosthenes' Philippics

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.

• 56 mins

The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.

• 51 mins

The Nibelungenlied

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.

• 54 mins

The Irish Rebellion of 1798

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.

• 55 mins

Citizen Kane

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.

• 53 mins

Persuasion

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.

• 50 mins

The Great Stink

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.

• 50 mins

John Donne

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.

• 51 mins

Rawls' Theory of Justice

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.

• 60 mins

Superconductivity

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.

• 50 mins

Tycho Brahe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

• 53 mins

Chartism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.

• 51 mins

Stevie Smith

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning

• 53 mins

Paul Erd艖s

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.

• 51 mins

Megaliths

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.

• 50 mins

The Ramayana

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.

• 49 mins

Mercantilism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.

• 57 mins

Solon the Lawgiver

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC

• 51 mins

A Room of One's Own

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.

• 54 mins

Cnut

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.

• 51 mins

The Battle of Cr茅cy

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England

• 50 mins

Linnaeus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.

• 50 mins

Walt Whitman

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.

• 49 mins

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.

• 48 mins