Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
From the mechanics of the first breaths on Earth to the reason we hiccup.
48 mins
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.
45 mins
The evolution of copyright.
1 hr
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.
54 mins
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
57 mins
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
47 mins
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
52 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.
