by Melvyn Bragg
30 OCTOBER 2008
Simón Bolívar
6 NOVEMBER 2008
Aristotle’s Politics
13 NOVEMBER 2008
Neuroscience
20 NOVEMBER 2008
The Baroque
27 NOVEMBER 2008
The Great Reform Act
4 DECEMBER 2008
Heat: A History
11 DECEMBER 2008
The Great Fire of London
18 DECEMBER 2008
The Physics of Time
1 JANUARY 2009
The Consolation of Philosophy
5 JANUARY 2009
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
6 JANUARY 2009
Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
7 JANUARY 2009
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
8 JANUARY 2009
Darwin: Life After Origins
15 JANUARY 2009
Thoreau and the American Idyll
22 JANUARY 2009
A History of History
29 JANUARY 2009
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
5 FEBRUARY 2009
The Brothers Grimm
12 FEBRUARY 2009
The Destruction of Carthage
19 FEBRUARY 2009
The Observatory at Jaipur
26 FEBRUARY 2009
The Waste Land and Modernity
5 MARCH 2009
The Measurement Problem in Physics
12 MARCH 2009
The Library of Alexandria
19 MARCH 2009
The Boxer Rebellion
26 MARCH 2009
The School of Athens
2 APRIL 2009
Baconian Science
9 APRIL 2009
Brave New World
16 APRIL 2009
Suffragism
23 APRIL 2009
The Building of St Petersburg
30 APRIL 2009
The Vacuum of Space
7 MAY 2009
Magna Carta
14 MAY 2009
The Siege of Vienna
21 MAY 2009
The Whale
28 MAY 2009
Saint Paul
4 JUNE 2009
The Trial of Charles I
11 JUNE 2009
The Augustan Age
18 JUNE 2009
Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
25 JUNE 2009
The Sunni-Shia Split
2 JULY 2009
Logical Positivism
9 JULY 2009
Ediacara Biota
17 SEPTEMBER 2009
St Thomas Aquinas
24 SEPTEMBER 2009
Leibniz vs Newton
1 OCTOBER 2009
Akhenaten
8 OCTOBER 2009
The Dreyfuss Affair
15 OCTOBER 2009
The Death of Elizabeth I
22 OCTOBER 2009
The Geological Formation of Britain
29 OCTOBER 2009
Schopenhauer
5 NOVEMBER 2009
The Siege of Münster
12 NOVEMBER 2009
The Discovery of Radiation
19 NOVEMBER 2009
Sparta
26 NOVEMBER 2009
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3 DECEMBER 2009
The Silk Road
10 DECEMBER 2009
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
24 DECEMBER 2009
The Samurai
31 DECEMBER 2009
Mary Wollstonecraft
14 JANUARY 2010
The Frankfurt School
21 JANUARY 2010
The Glencoe Massacre
28 JANUARY 2010
Silas Marner
4 FEBRUARY 2010
Ibn Khaldun
11 FEBRUARY 2010
The Unintended Consequences of Mathematics
18 FEBRUARY 2010
The Indian Rebellion
25 FEBRUARY 2010
Calvinism
4 MARCH 2010
The Infant Brain
11 MARCH 2010
Boudica
18 MARCH 2010
The Scream and Edvard Munch
25 MARCH 2010
The History of the City (1 of 2)
1 APRIL 2010
The History of the City (2 of 2)
8 APRIL 2010
William Hazlitt
15 APRIL 2010
The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
22 APRIL 2010
Roman Satire
29 APRIL 2010
The Great Wall of China
6 MAY 2010
The Cool Universe
13 MAY 2010
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
20 MAY 2010
The Cavendish Family
27 MAY 2010
Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists
3 JUNE 2010
Edmund Burke
10 JUNE 2010
Al-Biruni
17 JUNE 2010
The Neanderthals
24 JUNE 2010
Antarctica
1 JULY 2010
Athelstan
8 JULY 2010
Pliny’s Natural History
23 SEPTEMBER 2010
Imaginary Numbers
30 SEPTEMBER 2010
The Delphic Oracle
7 OCTOBER 2010
The Spanish Armada
14 OCTOBER 2010
Sturm und Drang
21 OCTOBER 2010
History of Logic
28 OCTOBER 2010
The Unicorn
4 NOVEMBER 2010
Women and Enlightenment Science
11 NOVEMBER 2010
The Volga Vikings
18 NOVEMBER 2010
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
25 NOVEMBER 2010
The History of Metaphor
2 DECEMBER 2010
Cleopatra
9 DECEMBER 2010
Thomas Edison
16 DECEMBER 2010
Daoism
23 DECEMBER 2010
The Industrial Revolution
30 DECEMBER 2010
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
6 JANUARY 2011
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
13 JANUARY 2011
Random and Pseudorandom
20 JANUARY 2011
The Mexican Revolution
27 JANUARY 2011
Aristotle’s Poetics
3 FEBRUARY 2011
The Battle of Bannockburn
10 FEBRUARY 2011
The Nervous System
17 FEBRUARY 2011
Maimonides
24 FEBRUARY 2011
The Taiping Rebellion
3 MARCH 2011
The Age of the Universe
10 MARCH 2011
Free Will (500th programme)
17 MARCH 2011
The Medieval University
24 MARCH 2011
The Dawn of the Iron Age
31 MARCH 2011
The Bhagavad Gita
7 APRIL 2011
Octavia Hill
14 APRIL 2011
The Neutrino
21 APRIL 2011
The Pelagian Controversy
28 APRIL 2011
Cogito Ergo Sum
5 MAY 2011
Islamic Law and its Origins
12 MAY 2011
The Anatomy of Melancholy
19 MAY 2011
Custer’s Last Stand
26 MAY 2011
Xenophon
2 JUNE 2011
Battle of Stamford Bridge
9 JUNE 2011
The Origins of Infectious Disease
16 JUNE 2011
John Wycliffe and the Lollards
23 JUNE 2011
Malthusianism
30 JUNE 2011
Tennyson’s In Memoriam
7 JULY 2011
The Minoan Civilisation
15 SEPTEMBER 2011
The Hippocratic Oath
22 SEPTEMBER 2011
Shinto
29 SEPTEMBER 2011
The Etruscan Civilisation
6 OCTOBER 2011
David Hume
13 OCTOBER 2011
The Ming Voyages
20 OCTOBER 2011
Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People
27 OCTOBER 2011
The Siege of Tenochtitlan
3 NOVEMBER 2011
The Moon
10 NOVEMBER 2011
The Continental–Analytic Split
17 NOVEMBER 2011
Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy
24 NOVEMBER 2011
Judas Maccabeus
1 DECEMBER 2011
Christina Rossetti
8 DECEMBER 2011
Heraclitus
15 DECEMBER 2011
The Concordat of Worms
22 DECEMBER 2011
Robinson Crusoe
29 DECEMBER 2011
Macromolecules
12 JANUARY 2012
The Safavid Dynasty
19 JANUARY 2012
1848: Year of Revolution
26 JANUARY 2012
The Scientific Method
2 FEBRUARY 2012
The Kama Sutra
9 FEBRUARY 2012
Erasmus
16 FEBRUARY 2012
The An Lushan Rebellion
23 FEBRUARY 2012
Conductors and Semiconductors
1 MARCH 2012
Benjamin Franklin
8 MARCH 2012
Lyrical Ballads
15 MARCH 2012
Vitruvius and De Architectura
22 MARCH 2012
Moses Mendelssohn
29 MARCH 2012
The Measurement of Time
5 APRIL 2012
George Fox and the Quakers
12 APRIL 2012
Early Geology
19 APRIL 2012
Neoplatonism
26 APRIL 2012
Battle of Bosworth Field
3 MAY 2012
Voltaire’s Candide
10 MAY 2012
Game Theory
17 MAY 2012
Clausewitz and On War
24 MAY 2012
Marco Polo
31 MAY 2012
The Trojan War
7 JUNE 2012
King Solomon
14 JUNE 2012
James Joyce’s Ulysses
21 JUNE 2012
Annie Besant
28 JUNE 2012
Al-Kindi
5 JULY 2012
Scepticism
12 JULY 2012
Hadrian’s Wall
13 SEPTEMBER 2012
The Cell
20 SEPTEMBER 2012
The Druids
27 SEPTEMBER 2012
The Ontological Argument
4 OCTOBER 2012
Gerald of Wales
11 OCTOBER 2012
Hannibal
18 OCTOBER 2012
Caxton and the Printing Press
25 OCTOBER 2012
Fermat’s Last Theorem
1 NOVEMBER 2012
The Anarchy
8 NOVEMBER 2012
The Upanishads
15 NOVEMBER 2012
Simone Weil
22 NOVEMBER 2012
The Borgias
29 NOVEMBER 2012
Crystallography
6 DECEMBER 2012
Bertrand Russell
13 DECEMBER 2012
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
20 DECEMBER 2012
The South Sea Bubble
27 DECEMBER 2012
The Cult of Mithras
10 JANUARY 2013
Le Morte d’Arthur
17 JANUARY 2013
Comets
24 JANUARY 2013
Romulus and Remus
31 JANUARY 2013
The War of 1812
7 FEBRUARY 2013
Epicureanism
14 FEBRUARY 2013
Ice Ages
21 FEBRUARY 2013
Decline and Fall
28 FEBRUARY 2013
Pitt Rivers
7 MARCH 2013
Absolute Zero
14 MARCH 2013
Chekhov
21 MARCH 2013
Alfred Russel Wallace
28 MARCH 2013
Water
4 APRIL 2013
Japan’s Sakoku Period
11 APRIL 2013
Amazons
18 APRIL 2013
The Putney Debates
25 APRIL 2013
Montaigne
2 MAY 2013
Gnosticism
9 MAY 2013
Icelandic Sagas
16 MAY 2013
Cosmic Rays
23 MAY 2013
Lévi-Strauss
30 MAY 2013
Queen Zenobia
6 JUNE 2013
Relativity
13 JUNE 2013
Prophecy
20 JUNE 2013
The Physiocrats
27 JUNE 2013
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
4 JULY 2013
The Invention of Radio
19 SEPTEMBER 2013
Blaise Pascal
26 SEPTEMBER 2013
The Mamluks
3 OCTOBER 2013
Exoplanets
10 OCTOBER 2013
Galen
17 OCTOBER 2013
The Book of Common Prayer
24 OCTOBER 2013
The Corn Laws
31 OCTOBER 2013
The Berlin Conference
7 NOVEMBER 2013
Ordinary Language Philosophy
14 NOVEMBER 2013
The Tempest
21 NOVEMBER 2013
Pocahontas
28 NOVEMBER 2013
The Microscope
5 DECEMBER 2013
Hindu Ideas of Creation
12 DECEMBER 2013
Pliny the Younger
19 DECEMBER 2013
Complexity
26 DECEMBER 2013
The Medici
3 JANUARY 2014
Plato’s Symposium
16 JANUARY 2014
The Battle of Tours
23 JANUARY 2014
Sources of Early Chinese History
30 JANUARY 2014
Catastrophism
6 FEBRUARY 2014
The Phoenicians
13 FEBRUARY 2014
Chivalry
20 FEBRUARY 2014
Social Darwinism
27 FEBRUARY 2014
The Eye
6 MARCH 2014
Spartacus
13 MARCH 2014
The Trinity
20 MARCH 2014
Bishop Berkeley
27 MARCH 2014
Weber’s The Protestant Ethic
3 APRIL 2014
States of Matter
10 APRIL 2014
Strabo’s Geographica
17 APRIL 2014
The Domesday Book
24 APRIL 2014
Tristram Shandy
1 MAY 2014
The Tale of Sinuhe
8 MAY 2014
Second Sino-Japanese War
15 MAY 2014
Photosynthesis
22 MAY 2014
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
29 MAY 2014
The Talmud
5 JUNE 2014
The Bluestockings
12 JUNE 2014
Robert Boyle
19 JUNE 2014
The Philosophy of Solitude
26 JUNE 2014
Hildegard of Bingen
3 JULY 2014
Mrs Dalloway
10 JULY 2014
The Sun
25 SEPT
EMBER 2014
2 OCTOBER 2014
Julius Caesar
9 OCTOBER 2014
The Battle of Talas
16 OCTOBER 2014
Rudyard Kipling
23 OCTOBER 2014
The Haitian Revolution
30 OCTOBER 2014
Nuclear Fusion
6 NOVEMBER 2014
Hatshepsut
13 NOVEMBER 2014
Brunel
20 NOVEMBER 2014
Aesop
27 NOVEMBER 2014
Kafka’s The Trial
4 DECEMBER 2014
Zen
11 DECEMBER 2014
Behavioural Ecology
18 DECEMBER 2014
Truth
15 JANUARY 2015
Bruegel’s The Fight Between
22 JANUARY 2015
Phenomenology
29 JANUARY 2015
Thucydides
5 FEBRUARY 2015
Ashoka the Great
12 FEBRUARY 2015
The Photon
19 FEBRUARY 2015
The Wealth of Nations
26 FEBRUARY 2015
The Eunuch
5 MARCH 2015
Beowulf
12 MARCH 2015
Dark Matter
19 MARCH 2015
Al-Ghazali
26 MARCH 2015
The Curies
2 APRIL 2015
The California Gold Rush
9 APRIL 2015
Sappho
16 APRIL 2015
Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
23 APRIL 2015
Fanny Burney
30 APRIL 2015
The Earth’s Core
7 MAY 2015
Rabindranath Tagore
14 MAY 2015
The Lancashire Cotton Famine
21 MAY 2015
Josephus
28 MAY 2015
The Science of Glass
4 JUNE 2015
Prester John
11 JUNE 2015
Utilitarianism
18 JUNE 2015
Jane Eyre
25 JUNE 2015
Extremophiles
2 JULY 2015
Frederick the Great
9 JULY 2015
Frida Kahlo
24 SEPTEMBER 2015
Perpetual Motion
1 OCTOBER 2015
Alexander the Great
15 OCTOBER 2015
Holbein at the Tudor Court
22 OCTOBER 2015
Simone de Beauvoir
29 OCTOBER 2015
The Empire of Mali
5 NOVEMBER 2015
P vs NP
12 NOVEMBER 2015
Battle of Lepanto
19 NOVEMBER 2015
Emma
29 NOVEMBER 2015
The Salem Witch Trials
3 DECEMBER 2015
Voyages of James Cook
10 DECEMBER 2015
Chinese Legalism
17 DECEMBER 2015
Circadian Rhythms
25 DECEMBER 2015
Michael Faraday
31 DECEMBER 2015
Tristan and Iseult
14 JANUARY 2016
Saturn
21 JANUARY 2016
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
28 JANUARY 2016
Eleanor of Aquitaine
4 FEBRUARY 2016
Chromatography
11 FEBRUARY 2016
Rumi’s Poetry
18 FEBRUARY 2016
Robert Hooke
25 FEBRUARY 2016
Mary Magdalene
3 MARCH 2016
The Dutch East India Company
10 MARCH 2016
The Maya Civilisation
17 MARCH 2016
Bedlam
24 MARCH 2016
Aurora Leigh
31 MARCH 2016
Agrippina the Younger
7 APRIL 2016
The Sikh Empire
