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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.
Tycho Brahe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
Chartism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
Stevie Smith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
Paul Erdős
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
Megaliths
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
The Ramayana
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Mercantilism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
Solon the Lawgiver
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
A Room of One's Own
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
Cnut
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
The Battle of Crécy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of and England
Linnaeus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
Walt Whitman
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
