Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.