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The Library at Nineveh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
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The Brain
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
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The Enclosures of the 18th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
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Materialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.
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Yeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
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The Norman Yoke
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘the Norman Yoke'.
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The Laws of Motion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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Kierkegaard
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
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The Greek Myths
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
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Ada Lovelace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
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Lear
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
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The Multiverse
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
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The Statue of Liberty
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .
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The Social Contract
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
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Rudolph II
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.
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Plate Tectonics
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
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The Fisher King
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Camus
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
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The Nicene Creed
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nicene Creed which established the Divinity of Christ.
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The Four Humours
Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
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The Sassanid Empire
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Sassanian Empire in Persia from the 3rd to the 7th century AD.
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Genetic Mutation
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
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The Fibonacci Sequence
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
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The Prelude
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude.
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Oxygen
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.
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Avicenna
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Persian Islamic philosopher Avicenna.
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Guilt
Melvyn Bragg and guests take a long hard look at the idea of guilt.
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Taste
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th century obsession with taste.