Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek city of Thebes in myth, drama and history.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss history and culture of the Picts.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
