Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.