Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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1. | Shinto | Sept. 22, 2011 |
2. | The Etruscan Civilisation | Sept. 29, 2011 |
3. | David Hume | Oct. 6, 2011 |
4. | The Ming Voyages | Oct. 13, 2011 |
5. | Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People | Oct. 20, 2011 |
6. | The Siege of Tenochtitlan | Oct. 27, 2011 |
7. | The Moon | Nov. 3, 2011 |
8. | The Continental-Analytic Split | Nov. 10, 2011 |
9. | Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy | Nov. 17, 2011 |
10. | Judas Maccabeus | Nov. 24, 2011 |
11. | Christina Rossetti | Dec. 1, 2011 |
12. | Heraclitus | Dec. 8, 2011 |
13. | The Concordat of Worms | Dec. 15, 2011 |
14. | Robinson Crusoe | Dec. 22, 2011 |
15. | Macromolecules | Dec. 29, 2011 |
16. | The Safavid Dynasty | Jan. 12, 2012 |
17. | 1848: Year of Revolution | Jan. 19, 2012 |
18. | The Scientific Method | Jan. 26, 2012 |
19. | The Kama Sutra | Feb. 2, 2012 |
20. | Erasmus | Feb. 9, 2012 |
21. | The An Lushan Rebellion | Feb. 16, 2012 |
22. | Conductors and Semiconductors | Feb. 23, 2012 |
23. | Benjamin Franklin | March 1, 2012 |
24. | Lyrical Ballads | March 8, 2012 |
25. | Vitruvius and De Architectura | March 15, 2012 |
26. | Moses Mendelssohn | March 22, 2012 |
27. | The Measurement of Time | March 29, 2012 |
28. | George Fox and the Quakers | April 5, 2012 |
29. | Early Geology | April 12, 2012 |
30. | Neoplatonism | April 19, 2012 |
31. | The Battle of Bosworth Field | April 26, 2012 |
32. | Voltaire's Candide | May 3, 2012 |
33. | Game Theory | May 10, 2012 |
34. | Clausewitz and On War | May 17, 2012 |
35. | Marco Polo | May 24, 2012 |
36. | The Trojan War | May 31, 2012 |
37. | King Solomon | June 7, 2012 |
38. | James Joyce's Ulysses | June 14, 2012 |
39. | Annie Besant | June 21, 2012 |
40. | Al-Kindi | June 28, 2012 |
41. | Scepticism | July 5, 2012 |
42. | Hadrian's Wall | July 12, 2012 |
43. | The Cell | Sept. 13, 2012 |
44. | The Druids | Sept. 20, 2012 |
45. | The Ontological Argument | Sept. 27, 2012 |
46. | Gerald of Wales | Oct. 4, 2012 |
47. | Hannibal | Oct. 11, 2012 |
48. | Caxton and the Printing Press | Oct. 18, 2012 |
49. | Fermat's Last Theorem | Oct. 25, 2012 |
50. | The Anarchy | Nov. 1, 2012 |
51. | The Upanishads | Nov. 8, 2012 |
52. | Simone Weil | Nov. 15, 2012 |
53. | The Borgias | Nov. 22, 2012 |
54. | Crystallography | Nov. 28, 2012 |
55. | Bertrand Russell | Dec. 6, 2012 |
56. | Shahnameh of Ferdowsi | Dec. 13, 2012 |
57. | The South Sea Bubble | Dec. 20, 2012 |
58. | The Cult of Mithras | Dec. 27, 2012 |
59. | Le Morte d'Arthur | Jan. 10, 2013 |
60. | Comets | Jan. 17, 2013 |
61. | Romulus and Remus | Jan. 24, 2013 |
62. | The War of 1812 | Jan. 31, 2013 |
63. | Epicureanism | Feb. 7, 2013 |
64. | Ice Ages | Feb. 14, 2013 |
65. | Decline and Fall | Feb. 21, 2013 |
66. | Pitt-Rivers | Feb. 28, 2013 |
67. | Absolute Zero | March 7, 2013 |
68. | Chekhov | March 14, 2013 |
69. | Alfred Russel Wallace | March 21, 2013 |
70. | Water | March 28, 2013 |
71. | Japan's Sakoku Period | April 4, 2013 |
72. | The Amazons | April 11, 2013 |
73. | The Putney Debates | April 18, 2013 |
74. | Montaigne | April 25, 2013 |
75. | Gnosticism | May 2, 2013 |
76. | Icelandic Sagas | May 9, 2013 |
77. | Cosmic Rays | May 16, 2013 |
78. | Lévi-Strauss | May 23, 2013 |
79. | Queen Zenobia | May 30, 2013 |
80. | Relativity | June 6, 2013 |
81. | Prophecy | June 13, 2013 |
82. | The Physiocrats | June 20, 2013 |
83. | Romance of the Three Kingdoms | June 27, 2013 |
84. | The Invention of Radio | July 4, 2013 |
85. | Pascal | Sept. 19, 2013 |
86. | The Mamluks | Sept. 26, 2013 |
87. | Exoplanets | Oct. 3, 2013 |
88. | Galen | Oct. 10, 2013 |
89. | The Book of Common Prayer | Oct. 17, 2013 |
90. | The Corn Laws | Oct. 24, 2013 |
91. | The Berlin Conference | Oct. 31, 2013 |
92. | Ordinary Language Philosophy | Nov. 7, 2013 |
93. | The Tempest | Nov. 14, 2013 |
94. | Pocahontas | Nov. 21, 2013 |
95. | The Microscope | Nov. 28, 2013 |
96. | Hindu Ideas of Creation | Dec. 5, 2013 |
97. | Pliny the Younger | Dec. 12, 2013 |
98. | Complexity | Dec. 19, 2013 |
99. | The Medici | Dec. 26, 2013 |
100. | Plato's Symposium | Jan. 2, 2014 |
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