Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
