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Polidori's The Vampyre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
Homo erectus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
Olympe de Gouges
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
Early Christian Martyrdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
The Davidian Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
Tang Era Poetry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
Comenius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
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.
The Irish Rebellion of 1798
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
Citizen Kane
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
Persuasion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
The Great Stink
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
John Donne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Rawls' Theory of Justice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
Superconductivity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
