by Melvyn Bragg
Lenin
23 MARCH 2000
Materialism and the Consumer
30 MARCH 2000
History and Understanding the Past
6 APRIL 2000
The Natural Order
13 APRIL 2000
New Wars
20 APRIL 2000
Englishness
27 APRIL 2000
Human Origins
4 MAY 2000
Death
11 MAY 2000
Shakespeare’s Work
18 MAY 2000
The Wars of the Roses
25 MAY 2000
Chemical Elements
1 JUNE 2000
The American Ideal
8 JUNE 2000
The Renaissance
15 JUNE 2000
Inspiration and Genius
22 JUNE 2000
Biography
29 JUNE 2000
Imagination and Consciousness
28 SEPTEMBER 2000
London
5 OCTOBER 2000
Hitler in History
12 OCTOBER 2000
The Romantics
19 OCTOBER 2000
Laws of Nature
26 OCTOBER 2000
The Tudor State
2 NOVEMBER 2000
Evolutionary Psychology
9 NOVEMBER 2000
Psychoanalysis and Literature
16 NOVEMBER 2000
Nihilism
4 JANUARY 2001
Gothic
11 JANUARY 2001
Mathematics and Platonism
18 JANUARY 2001
The Enlightenment in Britain
25 JANUARY 2001
Science and Religion
1 FEBRUARY 2001
Imperial Science
8 FEBRUARY 2001
Humanism
15 FEBRUARY 2001
The Restoration
22 FEBRUARY 2001
Quantum Gravity
1 MARCH 2001
Money
15 MARCH 2001
Shakespeare’s Life
22 MARCH 2001
Fossils
29 MARCH 2001
The Philosophy of Love
5 APRIL 2001
The Roman Empire’s Collapse in the Fifth Century
12 APRIL 2001
Black Holes
19 APRIL 2001
The Glorious Revolution
26 APRIL 2001
Literary Modernism
3 MAY 2001
Evil
14 JUNE 2001
The French Revolution’s Legacy
21 JUNE 2001
The Sonnet
28 JUNE 2001
Existentialism
5 JULY 2001
The Earth’s Origins
12 JULY 2001
Dickens
19 JULY 2001
Byzantium
18 OCTOBER 2001
Democracy
25 OCTOBER 2001
Napoleon and Wellington
1 NOVEMBER 2001
Confucius
8 NOVEMBER 2001
The British Empire
15 NOVEMBER 2001
Surrealism
22 NOVEMBER 2001
Oceanography
29 NOVEMBER 2001
Third Crusade
6 DECEMBER 2001
Oscar Wilde
13 DECEMBER 2001
Genetics
20 DECEMBER 2001
Rome and European Civilisation
27 DECEMBER 2001
History of Food in Modern Europe
3 JANUARY 2002
Sensibility
10 JANUARY 2002
Nuclear Physics
17 JANUARY 2002
Catharism
24 JANUARY 2002
Happiness
31 JANUARY 2002
W. B. Yeats and Mysticism
7 FEBRUARY 2002
The Universe’s Shape
14 FEBRUARY 2002
Anatomy
21 FEBRUARY 2002
The Celts
28 FEBRUARY 2002
Virtue
7 MARCH 2002
John Milton
14 MARCH 2002
The Buddha
21 MARCH 2002
Marriage
28 MARCH 2002
The Artist
4 APRIL 2002
Extraterrestrial Life
11 APRIL 2002
Bohemia
25 APRIL 2002
Tolstoy
2 MAY 2002
Physics of Reality
9 MAY 2002
The Examined Life
16 MAY 2002
Chaos Theory
23 MAY 2002
History of Drugs
30 MAY 2002
The Grand Tour
6 JUNE 2002
The Soul
13 JUNE 2002
The American West
20 JUNE 2002
Richard Wagner
27 JUNE 2002
Cultural Imperialism
4 JULY 2002
Freedom
11 JULY 2002
Psychoanalysis
18 JULY 2002
History of Heritage
17 OCTOBER 2002
Slavery and Empire
24 OCTOBER 2002
The Scientist in History
31 OCTOBER 2002
Architecture and Power
7 NOVEMBER 2002
Human Nature
14 NOVEMBER 2002
Victorian Realism
21 NOVEMBER 2002
Muslim Spain
28 NOVEMBER 2002
Imagination
5 DECEMBER 2002
The Scottish Enlightenment
12 DECEMBER 2002
Man and Disease
19 DECEMBER 2002
The Calendar
6 FEBRUARY 2003
The Epic
13 FEBRUARY 2003
Chance and Design in Evolution
20 FEBRUARY 2003
The Lindisfarne Gospels
27 FEBRUARY 2003
The Aztecs
6 MARCH 2003
Meteorology
13 MARCH 2003
Redemption
20 MARCH 2003
Originality
27 MARCH 2003
Supernovas
3 APRIL 2003
The Spanish Civil War
17 APRIL 2003
Proust
24 APRIL 2003
Youth
1 MAY 2003
Roman Britain
8 MAY 2003
The Jacobite Rebellion
15 MAY 2003
The Holy Grail
22 MAY 2003
Blood
29 MAY 2003
Memory
5 JUNE 2003
The Lunar Society
12 JUNE 2003
The Art of War
19 JUNE 2003
The Aristocracy
26 JUNE 2003
The East India Company
3 JULY 2003
Vulcanology
10 JULY 2003
Nature
17 JULY 2003
The Apocalypse
2 OCTOBER 2003
James Clerk Maxwell
9 OCTOBER 2003
Bohemianism
16 OCTOBER 2003
The Schism
23 OCTOBER 2003
Infinity
30 OCTOBER 2003
Robin Hood
6 NOVEMBER 2003
Sensation
13 NOVEMBER 2003
Duty
20 NOVEMBER 2003
Ageing the Earth
27 NOVEMBER 2003
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
4 DECEMBER 2003
Wittgenstein
11 DECEMBER 2003
The Devil
18 DECEMBER 2003
The Alphabet
26 DECEMBER 2003
Lamarck and Natural Selection
Cryptography
5 FEBRUARY 2004
The Battle of Thermopylae
12 FEBRUARY 2004
The Sublime
19 FEBRUARY 2004
Rutherford
26 FEBRUARY 2004
The Mughal Empire
4 MARCH 2004
Dreams
11 MARCH 2004
The Norse Gods
18 MARCH 2004
The Roman Empire’s Decline and Fall (repeat of Episode 5, April 2001)
25 MARCH 2004
Theories of Everything
1 APRIL 2004
China: The Warring States Period
8 APRIL 2004
The Fall
15 APRIL 2004
The Later Romantics
22 APRIL 2004
Hysteria
29 APRIL 2004
Tea
6 MAY 2004
Heroism
13 MAY 2004
Zero
20 MAY 2004
Toleration
27 MAY 2004
Planets
3 JUNE 2004
Babylon
10 JUNE 2004
Empiricism
17 JUNE 2004
Renaissance Magic
24 JUNE 2004
George Washington and the American Revolution
2 SEPTEMBER 2004
Pi
9 SEPTEMBER 2004
The Odyssey
16 SEPTEMBER 2004
Agincourt
23 SEPTEMBER 2004
The Origins of Life
30 SEPTEMBER 2004
Politeness
7 OCTOBER 2004
Jean-Paul Sartre
14 OCTOBER 2004
The Han Synthesis
21 OCTOBER 2004
Witchcraft
28 OCTOBER 2004
Rhetoric
4 NOVEMBER 2004
Electrickery
11 NOVEMBER 2004
Zoroastrianism
18 NOVEMBER 2004
Higgs Boson
25 NOVEMBER 2004
The Venerable Bede
2 DECEMBER 2004
Carl Gustav Jung
9 DECEMBER 2004
Machiavelli and the Italian City States
16 DECEMBER 2004
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
23 DECEMBER 2004
Faust
30 DECEMBER 2004
The Roman Republic
6 JANUARY 2005
The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II
13 JANUARY 2005
The Mind/Body Problem
17 FEBRUARY 2005
The Cambrian Explosion
24 FEBRUARY 2005
Alchemy
3 MARCH 2005
Stoicism
10 MARCH 2005
Modernist Utopias
17 MARCH 2005
Dark Energy
24 MARCH 2005
Angels
31 MARCH 2005
John Ruskin
7 APRIL 2005
Alfred and the Battle of Edington
14 APRIL 2005
Archaeology and Imperialism
21 APRIL 2005
The Aeneid
28 APRIL 2005
Perception and the Senses
5 MAY 2005
Abelard and Hélöise
19 MAY 2005
Beauty
26 MAY 2005
The Terror
2 JUNE 2005
Renaissance Maths
9 JUNE 2005
The Scriblerus Club
16 JUNE 2005
Paganism in the Renaissance
23 JUNE 2005
The K–T Boundary
30 JUNE 2005
Merlin
7 JULY 2005
Christopher Marlowe
14 JULY 2005
Karl Marx
29 SEPTEMBER 2005
Magnetism
6 OCTOBER 2005
Field of the Cloth of Gold
13 OCTOBER 2005
The Rise of the Mammals
20 OCTOBER 2005
Cynicism
27 OCTOBER 2005
Samuel Johnson and His Circle
3 NOVEMBER 2005
Asteroids
10 NOVEMBER 2005
Greyfriars and Blackfriars
17 NOVEMBER 2005
Pragmatism
24 NOVEMBER 2005
The Graviton
1 DECEMBER 2005
Thomas Hobbes
8 DECEMBER 2005
Artificial Intelligence
15 DECEMBER 2005
The Peterloo Massacre
22 DECEMBER 2005
Heaven
29 DECEMBER 2005
Aeschylus’ Oresteia
5 JANUARY 2006
The Oath
12 JANUARY 2006
Prime Numbers
19 JANUARY 2006
Relativism
26 JANUARY 2006
Seventeenth-Century Print Culture
2 FEBRUARY 2006
The Abbasid Caliphs
9 FEBRUARY 2006
Geoffrey Chaucer
16 FEBRUARY 2006
Human Evolution
23 FEBRUARY 2006
Catherine the Great
2 MARCH 2006
Friendship
9 MARCH 2006
Negative Numbers
16 MARCH 2006
Don Quixote
23 MARCH 2006
The Royal Society
30 MARCH 2006
The Carolingian Renaissance
6 APRIL 2006
Goethe
13 APRIL 2006
The Oxford Movement
20 APRIL 2006
The Search for Immunisation
27 APRIL 2006
The Great Exhibition
4 MAY 2006
Astronomy and Empire
11 MAY 2006
Fairies
18 MAY 2006
John Stuart Mill
25 MAY 2006
Mathematics and Music
1 JUNE 2006
The Heart
8 JUNE 2006
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
15 JUNE 2006
Carbon
22 JUNE 2006
The Spanish Inquisition
29 JUNE 2006
Galaxies
6 JULY 2006
Pastoral Literature
13 JULY 2006
Greek Comedy
28 SEPTEMBER 2006
Alexander von Humboldt
5 OCTOBER 2006
Averroes
12 OCTOBER 2006
The Diet of Worms
19 OCTOBER 2006
The Needham Question
26 OCTOBER 2006
The Encyclopédie
2 NOVEMBER 2006
The Poincaré Conjecture
9 NOVEMBER 2006
Alexander Pope
16 NOVEMBER 2006
The Peasants’ Revolt
23 NOVEMBER 2006
Altruism
30 NOVEMBER 2006
The Speed of Light
7 DECEMBER 2006
Anarchism
14 DECEMBER 2006
Indian Maths
21 DECEMBER 2006
Hell
28 DECEMBER 2006
The Siege of Constantinople
4 JANUARY 2007
Jorge Luis Borges
11 JANUARY 2007
Mars
18 JANUARY 2007
The Jesuits
25 JANUARY 2007
Archimedes
1 FEBRUARY 2007
Genghis Khan
8 FEBRUARY 2007
Karl Popper
15 FEBRUARY 2007
Heart of Darkness
22 FEBRUARY 2007
William Wilberforce
1 MARCH 2007
The History of Optics
8 MARCH 2007
Microbiolog
y
15 MARCH 2007
Epistolary Literature
22 MARCH 2007
Bismarck
29 MARCH 2007
Anaesthetics
5 APRIL 2007
St Hilda
12 APRIL 2007
The Opium Wars
19 APRIL 2007
Symmetry
26 APRIL 2007
Greek and Roman Love Poetry
3 MAY 2007
Spinoza
10 MAY 2007
Victorian Pessimism
17 MAY 2007
Gravitational Waves
24 MAY 2007
The Siege of Orléans
31 MAY 2007
Occam’s Razor
7 JUNE 2007
Siegfried Sassoon
14 JUNE 2007
Renaissance Astrology
21 JUNE 2007
Common Sense Philosophy
28 JUNE 2007
Permian–Triassic Boundary
5 JULY 2007
The Pilgrim Fathers
12 JULY 2007
Madame Bovary
27 SEPTEMBER 2007
Socrates
4 OCTOBER 2007
Antimatter
11 OCTOBER 2007
Divine Right of Kings
18 OCTOBER 2007
The Arabian Nights
25 OCTOBER 2007
Taste
1 NOVEMBER 2007
Guilt
8 NOVEMBER 2007
Avicenna
15 NOVEMBER 2007
The Discovery of Oxygen
22 NOVEMBER 2007
The Prelude
29 NOVEMBER 2007
The Fibonacci Sequence
6 DECEMBER 2007
Genetic Mutation
13 DECEMBER 2007
The Sassanian Empire
20 DECEMBER 2007
The Four Humours
27 DECEMBER 2007
The Nicene Creed
3 JANUARY 2008
Albert Camus
10 JANUARY 2008
The Charge of the Light Brigade
17 JANUARY 2008
The Fisher King
24 JANUARY 2008
Plate Tectonics
31 JANUARY 2008
The Court of Rudolf II
7 FEBRUARY 2008
The Social Contract
14 FEBRUARY 2008
The Statue of Liberty
21 FEBRUARY 2008
The Multiverse
28 FEBRUARY 2008
King Lear
6 MARCH 2008
Ada Lovelace
13 MARCH 2008
The Greek Myths
20 MARCH 2008
Søren Kierkegaard
27 MARCH 2008
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
3 APRIL 2008
Newton’s Laws of Motion
10 APRIL 2008
The Norman Yoke
17 APRIL 2008
Yeats and Irish Politics
24 APRIL 2008
Materialism
1 MAY 2008
The Enclosures
8 MAY 2008
The Brain: A History
15 MAY 2008
The Library at Nineveh
22 MAY 2008
The Black Death
29 MAY 2008
Probability
5 JUNE 2008
Lysenkoism
12 JUNE 2008
The Riddle of the Sands
19 JUNE 2008
The Music of the Spheres
26 JUNE 2008
The Arab Conquests
3 JULY 2008
The Metaphysical Poets
10 JULY 2008
Tacitus – The Decadence of Rome
25 SEPTEMBER 2008
Miracles
2 OCTOBER 2008
The Translation Movement
9 OCTOBER 2008
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
16 OCTOBER 2008
Vitalism
23 OCTOBER 2008
Dante’s Inferno
