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Romeo and Juliet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.
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Antigone
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
The Sistine Chapel
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Polidori's The Vampyre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
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Early Christian Martyrdom
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The Davidian Revolution
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Tang Era Poetry
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Comenius
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Hegel's Philosophy of History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
The Death of Stars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
Dylan Thomas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
Angkor Wat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
John Bull
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
Plato's Atlantis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.
The Electron
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
The Knights Templar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
Berthe Morisot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
Wilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
The Morant Bay Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
Bauhaus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
Demosthenes' Philippics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
The Nibelungenlied
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
