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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
Automata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
The Iliad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
William Morris
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
The Mexican-American War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
Echolocation
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Montesquieu
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
Persepolis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
