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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.

• 51 mins

The Valladolid Debate

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.

• 53 mins

The Evolution of Horses

Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.

• 50 mins

Paul Dirac

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.

• 50 mins

The Covenanters

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.

• 53 mins

Pericles

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.

• 48 mins

Cave Art

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.

• 48 mins

Macbeth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.

• 51 mins

Deism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.

• 48 mins

Alan Turing

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.

• 53 mins

Maria Theresa

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order

• 50 mins

Piers Plowman

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.

• 51 mins

Mary Astell

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 鈥� 1731).

• 51 mins

Albrecht D眉rer

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.

• 54 mins

The Zong Massacre

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.

• 52 mins

Fernando Pessoa

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.

• 50 mins

John Wesley and Methodism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century

• 51 mins

The Cultural Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76

• 48 mins

Eclipses

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.

• 50 mins

The Great Gatsby

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.

• 55 mins

The Plague of Justinian

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.

• 48 mins

Saint Cuthbert

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.

• 56 mins

Emilie du Ch芒telet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.

• 49 mins

The Rosetta Stone

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.

• 47 mins

Medieval Pilgrimage

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.

• 50 mins

Marcus Aurelius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.

• 52 mins

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.

• 53 mins

The Late Devonian Extinction

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.

• 49 mins

The Bacchae

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.

• 52 mins

David Ricardo

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars

• 49 mins