Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early history of Bethlehem Hospital, known as Bedlam.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch East India Company.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman of her time.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Salem witch trials.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire of Mali.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lancashire cotton famine during the American Civil War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and significance of eunuchs.
