Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
47 mins
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
51 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.
50 mins
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
49 mins
Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought
59 mins
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
56 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.
54 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
52 mins
