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.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.