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Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
Philippa Foot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.
Bertolt Brecht
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
Napoleon's Hundred Days
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
Lysistrata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
Nikola Tesla
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.
The Kalevala
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
Julian the Apostate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
