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China's Warring States period

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing听productivity of the Chinese Golden Age.

• 45 mins

The Fall

Melvyn Bragg examines the concept of original sin and its influence in Christian Europe.

• 45 mins

The Later Romantics

Melvyn Bragg examines the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.

• 45 mins

Hysteria

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.

• 45 mins

Tea

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss tea, the first truly global commodity.

• 150 mins

Heroism

Melvyn Bragg explores what defines a hero, and their place in classical society.

• 45 mins

Zero

Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.

• 45 mins

Toleration

Melvyn Bragg looks at the politics behind the rise of religious freedom in England.

• 45 mins

The Planets

Melvyn Bragg examines our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.

• 45 mins

Babylon

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth behind the empire of Babylon.

• 45 mins

Empiricism

Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.

• 45 mins

Renaissance Magic

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.

• 45 mins

Washington and the American Revolution

Melvyn Bragg examines the first President of the US and what drove him to revolution.

• 45 mins

Pi

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.

• 45 mins

The Odyssey

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monster filled epic, Homer鈥檚 Odyssey.

• 45 mins

Agincourt

The history and legacy of the English army's defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415.

• 45 mins

The Origins of Life

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.

• 45 mins

Politeness

Melvyn Bragg examines the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.

• 45 mins

Sartre

The life and work of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

• 45 mins

The Han Synthesis

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Han Synthesis philosophies of China.

• 45 mins

Witchcraft

The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.

• 45 mins

Rhetoric

Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato.

• 45 mins

Electrickery

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.

• 45 mins

Zoroastrianism

The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.

• 45 mins

Higgs Boson

The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.

• 45 mins

The Venerable Bede

The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.

• 30 mins

Jung

The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.

• 45 mins

Machiavelli and the Italian City States

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.

• 45 mins

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.

• 45 mins

Faust

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myth of Faustus and temptation by evil.

• 45 mins