Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.
