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1816, the Year Without a Summer

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.

• 45 mins

Euclid's Elements

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.

• 45 mins

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

• 46 mins

Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.

• 49 mins

The Muses

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.

• 45 mins

The Gettysburg Address

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.

• 48 mins

Margery Kempe and English Mysticism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.

• 44 mins

Penicillin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.

• 46 mins

The Bronze Age Collapse

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.

• 47 mins

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

• 49 mins

Sovereignty

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.

• 47 mins

The Invention of Photography

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.

• 48 mins

Zeno's Paradoxes

Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno

• 46 mins

Lakshmi

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.

• 47 mins

Plasma

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.

• 45 mins

The 12th Century Renaissance

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.

• 49 mins

John Dalton

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.

• 45 mins

Epic of Gilgamesh

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.

• 46 mins

The Fighting Temeraire

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.

• 45 mins

Justinian's Legal Code

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.

• 47 mins

Baltic Crusades

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.

• 46 mins

Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.

• 49 mins

Harriet Martineau

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.

• 51 mins

The Gin Craze

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.

• 52 mins

Four Quartets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.

• 48 mins

Johannes Kepler

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.

• 48 mins

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.

• 48 mins

Mary, Queen of Scots

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.

• 52 mins

Parasitism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another

• 45 mins

Hannah Arendt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

• 47 mins