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    Aesop

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables

  2. Brunel

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

  3. Hatshepsut

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut.

  4. Nuclear Fusion

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.

  5. The Haitian Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.

  6. Rudyard Kipling

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.

  7. The Battle of Talas

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.

  8. Julius Caesar

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and reputation of Julius Caesar.

  9. e

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.

  10. The Sun

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.

  11. Mrs Dalloway

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.

  12. Hildegard of Bingen

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.

  13. The Philosophy of Solitude

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.

  14. Robert Boyle

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.

  15. The Bluestockings

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.

  16. The Talmud

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, a major text of rabbinical Judaism.

  17. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

  18. Photosynthesis

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.

  19. The Sino-Japanese War

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.

  20. The Tale of Sinuhe

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.

  21. Tristram Shandy

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.

  22. The Domesday Book

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.

  23. Strabo's Geographica

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Strabo's Geographica, an early work of geography.

  24. States of Matter

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.

  25. Weber's The Protestant Ethic

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

  26. Bishop Berkeley

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.

  27. The Trinity

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity.

  28. Spartacus

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman gladiator and rebel leader Spartacus.

  29. The Eye

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.

  30. Social Darwinism

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.

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