Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
50 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.
54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
52 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.
53 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms
57 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.
46 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
47 mins
