Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman letter-writer Pliny the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the An Lushan Rebellion.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the remarkable Carthaginian general Hannibal.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Druids of ancient Europe.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mamluks, medieval rulers of Egypt and Syria.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 19th-century writer and campaigner Annie Besant.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra, the famed last pharaoh of Egypt.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Borgias, the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hadrian's Wall.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
