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Bacteriophages

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

• 50 mins

Benjamin Disraeli

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.

• 51 mins

Wormholes

Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.

• 60 mins

The Haymarket Affair

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

• 51 mins

Robert Graves

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.

• 54 mins

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

• 50 mins

Little Women

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

• 48 mins

The Venetian Empire

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.

• 51 mins

George Herbert

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.

• 52 mins

The Antikythera Mechanism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.

• 50 mins

Italo Calvino

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist

• 48 mins

The Hanoverian Succession

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.

• 50 mins

Nizami Ganjavi

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.

• 52 mins

The Habitability of Planets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

• 52 mins

Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work

• 56 mins

Vase-mania

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.

• 56 mins

Slime Moulds

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.

• 51 mins