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Page 1 of 9
· The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
28 Sep 2023
50:00
· Death in Venice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
15 Jun 2023
48:37
· A Room of One's Own
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
30 Mar 2023
54:48
· Paul Erdős
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
23 Feb 2023
51:09
· Stevie Smith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
16 Feb 2023
53:19
· Superconductivity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
26 Jan 2023
50:44
· Rawls' Theory of Justice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
19 Jan 2023
1:00:39
· Citizen Kane
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
15 Dec 2022
53:43
· Bauhaus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
10 Nov 2022
56:45
· Wilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
27 Oct 2022
56:39
· Nineteen Eighty-Four
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
15 Sep 2022
42:00
· Dylan Thomas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
16 Jun 2022
50:06
· Charisma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
17 Mar 2022
52:38
· Walter Benjamin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
10 Feb 2022
50:32
· Colette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
27 Jan 2022
51:27
· The Gold Standard
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
20 Jan 2022
49:00
· Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
13 Jan 2022
50:43
· Fritz Lang
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
30 Dec 2021
55:00
· The May Fourth Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
09 Dec 2021
52:57
· Iris Murdoch
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
21 Oct 2021
54:25
· The Manhattan Project
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
07 Oct 2021
48:20
· The Russo-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
01 Apr 2021
48:51
· The Great Gatsby
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
14 Jan 2021
55:34
· The Cultural Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
17 Dec 2020
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· Fernando Pessoa
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
03 Dec 2020
50:06
· Alan Turing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
15 Oct 2020
53:08
· Paul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
05 Mar 2020
50:47
· Auden
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
19 Dec 2019
53:25
· Lawrence of Arabia
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
05 Dec 2019
51:46
· Dorothy Hodgkin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
03 Oct 2019
52:22
· Lorca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
04 Jul 2019
53:24
· Emmy Noether
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
24 Jan 2019
48:20
· Samuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
17 Jan 2019
48:58
· The Long March
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
29 Nov 2018
50:05
· Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
04 Oct 2018
49:28
· Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
27 Sep 2018
49:48
· The Proton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
26 Apr 2018
49:11
· Rosalind Franklin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
22 Feb 2018
49:47
· Picasso's Guernica
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
02 Nov 2017
54:17
· Rosa Luxemburg
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
13 Apr 2017
50:10
· Pauli's Exclusion Principle
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
06 Apr 2017
48:13
· The Kuiper Belt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.
02 Mar 2017
48:11
· Hannah Arendt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
02 Feb 2017
47:17
· Parasitism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
26 Jan 2017
45:45
· Four Quartets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
22 Dec 2016
48:31
· In Our Time - Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
29 Sep 2016
51:17
· Penicillin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
09 Jun 2016
46:35
· The Microscope
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
28 Nov 2013
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· Artificial Intelligence
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
29 Apr 1999
30:00
· Black Holes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
12 Apr 2001
45:00
· Cosmic Rays
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
16 May 2013
42:05
· Popper
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.
08 Feb 2007
45:00
· Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
09 Oct 2008
45:00
· Economic Rights
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between democracy and capitalism.
27 Jan 2000
30:00
· Lévi-Strauss
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
23 May 2013
42:03
· Relativity
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
06 Jun 2013
42:04
· Sartre
The life and work of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
07 Oct 2004
2:30:00
· The Invention of Radio
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
04 Jul 2013
41:59
· Science in the 20th century
Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
05 Nov 1998
30:00
· Exoplanets
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
03 Oct 2013
42:01
· Science's Revelations
Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.
29 Oct 1998
30:00
· Ordinary Language Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy.
07 Nov 2013
41:57
· Complexity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
19 Dec 2013
41:49
· Siegfried Sassoon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.
07 Jun 2007
45:00
· The Eye
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
27 Feb 2014
42:11
· Weber's The Protestant Ethic
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
27 Mar 2014
50:40
· States of Matter
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
03 Apr 2014
47:07
· The Sino-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Second Sino-Japanese War.
08 May 2014
46:41
· The Philosophy of Solitude
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
19 Jun 2014
43:00
· Mrs Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
03 Jul 2014
45:30
· The Sun
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
10 Jul 2014
43:00
· e
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
25 Sep 2014
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· Nuclear Fusion
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
30 Oct 2014
46:55
· Kafka's The Trial
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
27 Nov 2014
43:18
· Truth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.
18 Dec 2014
42:10
· Phenomenology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.
22 Jan 2015
46:33
· The Photon
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
12 Feb 2015
43:00
· Dark Matter
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
12 Mar 2015
45:43
· The Curies
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
26 Mar 2015
47:22
· The Earth's Core
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
30 Apr 2015
46:41
· Tagore
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.
07 May 2015
46:36
· The Science of Glass
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
28 May 2015
45:57
· Extremophiles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
25 Jun 2015
43:00
· Frida Kahlo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.
09 Jul 2015
43:00
· Simone de Beauvoir
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, work and life of Simone de Beauvoir.
22 Oct 2015
43:00
· P v NP
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
05 Nov 2015
43:00
· Circadian Rhythms
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
17 Dec 2015
43:00
· Saturn
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
14 Jan 2016
46:55
· Chromatography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
04 Feb 2016
47:14
· Evolution
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
15 Apr 1999
30:00
· Neuroscience
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
13 Nov 2008
45:00
· The Neutron
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.
14 Apr 2016
45:30
· Dreams
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
04 Mar 2004
40:00
· Memory and Culture
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
27 May 1999
30:00
· History's relevance in the 20th century
Melvyn Bragg considers the relevance of the study of history in the 20th century.
03 Dec 1998
30:00
· Capitalism
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.
24 Jun 1999
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· Literary Modernism
Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
26 Apr 2001
45:00
· Higgs Boson
The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
18 Nov 2004
45:00
· Intelligence
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
01 Jul 1999
30:00
· Psychoanalysis and Democracy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of politics on psychoanalysis.
11 Jul 2002
45:00
· Anarchism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political creed of Anarchism.
07 Dec 2006
45:00
· Climate Change
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
06 Jan 2000
30:00
· Existentialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the 20th century philosophy of existentialism
28 Jun 2001
45:00
· Antimatter
Melvyn Bragg discusses Antimatter in particle physics and cosmology.
04 Oct 2007
45:00
· Jung
The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
02 Dec 2004
45:00
· Neuroscience in the 20th century
Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don’t yet know about the brain.
24 Dec 1998
30:00
· Bohemianism
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Parisian philosophy of life lived for art.
09 Oct 2003
45:00
· Proust
The life and work of the celebrated 20th century French novelist Marcel Proust.
17 Apr 2003
45:00
· Politics in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg discusses politics and morality with Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke.
22 Oct 1998
30:00
· Modern Culture
Melvyn Bragg examines the definition and state of modern culture in the 20th century.
21 Jan 1999
30:00
· Ageing
Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
28 Jan 1999
30:00
· Atrocity in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines the widespread and chilling inhumanity of the 20th century.
28 Oct 1999
30:00
· Architecture in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines what the architecture of the 20th century says about the age.
25 Mar 1999
30:00
· New Wars
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are in a new era in the history of modern warfare.
13 Apr 2000
45:00
· Radiation
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
12 Nov 2009
45:00
· Masculinity in Literature
Melvyn Bragg investigates the changing ideals of masculinity in 20th century literature.
20 Jan 2000
30:00
· Multiculturalism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century’s vast population and cultural shifts.
13 May 1999
30:00
· Camus
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
03 Jan 2008
45:00
· Lenin
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled his successes.
16 Mar 2000
30:00
· Modernist Utopias
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mad, bad world of modern utopias.
10 Mar 2005
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· Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
04 Feb 1999
30:00
· Childhood
Melvyn Bragg looks at how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.
09 Dec 1999
30:00
· Feminism
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
07 Jan 1999
30:00
· Psychoanalysis and Literature
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
09 Nov 2000
45:00
· Fundamentalism
Melvyn Bragg examines the roots and the consequences of religious fundamentalism.
22 Apr 1999
30:00
· Genetic Engineering
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
14 Jan 1999
30:00
· Heart of Darkness
Melvyn Bragg discusses Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness.
15 Feb 2007
45:00
· Lysenkoism
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
05 Jun 2008
45:00
· Animal Experiments and Rights
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge.
18 Mar 1999
30:00
· Quantum Gravity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
22 Feb 2001
45:00
· Grand Unified Theory
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
24 Feb 2000
30:00
· Language and the Mind
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
11 Feb 1999
30:00
· Artificial Intelligence
Melvyn Bragg investigates artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?
08 Dec 2005
45:00
· Genetic Determinism
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
23 Sep 1999
30:00
· Mathematics
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
06 May 1999
30:00
· Hysteria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
22 Apr 2004
45:00
· Genetics
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
13 Dec 2001
45:00
· Hell
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Hell and its representation in the arts.
21 Dec 2006
45:00
· Gravitational Waves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.
17 May 2007
45:00
· Information Technology
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
13 Jan 2000
30:00
· Cultural Rights in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines what impact globalisation has had on human rights.
10 Dec 1998
30:00
· Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
26 Nov 2009
45:00
· Logical Positivism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
02 Jul 2009
45:00
· Microbiology
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.
08 Mar 2007
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· Materialism and the Consumer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
23 Mar 2000
30:00
· Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.
09 Apr 2009
45:00
· Africa
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the roots of Africa's current political and social crises.
08 Jul 1999
30:00
· Pragmatism
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the American philosophy of pragmatism.
17 Nov 2005
45:00
· Good and Evil
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
01 Apr 1999
30:00
· Nuclear Physics
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
10 Jan 2002
45:00
· Relativism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
19 Jan 2006
45:00
· Hitler in History
Melvyn Bragg examines Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany though historiographical theories.
05 Oct 2000
45:00
· Rutherford
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
19 Feb 2004
45:00
· Space in Religion and Science
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
18 Feb 1999
30:00
· Suffragism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
16 Apr 2009
45:00
· Surrealism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.
15 Nov 2001
45:00
· The Age of Doubt
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
09 Mar 2000
30:00
· The American Century
Melvyn Bragg examines how legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century.
17 Dec 1998
30:00
· The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines the history and legacy of 20th Century Avant Garde painting.
25 Feb 1999
30:00
· The Boxer Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
19 Mar 2009
45:00
· The Brain and Consciousness
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
19 Nov 1998
30:00
· The British Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.
08 Nov 2001
45:00
· The British Empire's Legacy
Melvyn Bragg examines the impact of Britain’s colonial past on its current identity.
31 Dec 1998
30:00
· The City - a history, part 2
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the city.
01 Apr 2010
45:00
· The City in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg looks at the innovative developments of the city in the 20th century.
12 Nov 1998
30:00
· The Cool Universe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
06 May 2010
45:00
· The Frankfurt School
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and influence of the Frankfurt School.
14 Jan 2010
45:00
· The Graviton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.
24 Nov 2005
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· The Great Disruption
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
17 Jun 1999
30:00
· The Individual
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of the individual from the Renaissance to today.
21 Oct 1999
30:00
· The Infant Brain
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
04 Mar 2010
45:00
· The Laws of Motion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
03 Apr 2008
45:00
· The Measurement Problem in Physics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
05 Mar 2009
45:00
· The Mexican Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
20 Jan 2011
45:00
· The Monarchy
Melvyn Bragg examines the enduring strengths and current role of the British monarchy.
10 Jun 1999
30:00
· The Nation State
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it is appropriate to think of the UK as a nation.
14 Oct 1999
30:00
· The Novel
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the development and the future of the novel.
11 Nov 1999
30:00
· The Physics of Reality
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
02 May 2002
45:00
· The Poincaré Conjecture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
02 Nov 2006
45:00
· The Riddle of the Sands
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.
12 Jun 2008
45:00
· The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4 In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
07 Jan 2010
45:00
· The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
16 Dec 2004
45:00
· The Spanish Civil War
Melvyn Bragg examines the causes, events and repercussions of the Spanish Civil War.
03 Apr 2003
45:00
· The Speed of Light
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein’s universe.
30 Nov 2006
45:00
· The Universe's Origins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
20 May 1999
30:00
· The Vacuum of Space
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
30 Apr 2009
45:00
· The Waste Land and Modernity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
26 Feb 2009
45:00
· Theories of Everything
Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
25 Mar 2004
45:00
· Truth, Lies and Fiction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it matters if memoirs aren’t entirely truthful.
15 Jul 1999
30:00
· War in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg explores ideas that have influenced 20th century human rights and warfare.
15 Oct 1998
30:00
· William James's 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
13 May 2010
45:00
· Wittgenstein
The life, work and legacy of the 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
04 Dec 2003
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· Work in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines the changing ideas about the function of work in the 20th century.
26 Nov 1998
30:00
· Writing and Political Oppression
Melvyn Bragg examines whether writers have a political role in modern society.
08 Apr 1999
30:00
· Yeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
17 Apr 2008
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· Yeats and Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
31 Jan 2002
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