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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
01 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England
13 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
06 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
01 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
06 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
23 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
05 May 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.
04 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces
06 May 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
18 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
28 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
29 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
21 Nov 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century
31 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
13 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
20 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses
24 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.
10 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.
03 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
14 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).
08 Jun 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of Purgatory.
25 May 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.
04 May 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.
20 Apr 2017
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
24 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
20 Oct 2016
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Chinese book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
27 Jun 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mamluks, medieval rulers of Egypt and Syria.
26 Sep 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Tours of 732.
16 Jan 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss medieval chivalry.
13 Feb 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book.
17 Apr 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
22 May 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
26 Jun 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Talas in AD751.
09 Oct 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and significance of eunuchs.
26 Feb 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Islamic thinker Al-Ghazali.
19 Mar 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Prester John.
04 Jun 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
24 Sep 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire of Mali.
29 Oct 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chinese Legalism from the time of the First Emperor.
10 Dec 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of Tristan and Iseult.
31 Dec 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman of her time.
28 Jan 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).
11 Feb 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.
10 Mar 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early history of Bethlehem Hospital, known as Bedlam.
17 Mar 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval tale of Abelard and Heloise.
05 May 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
24 Feb 2005
Melvyn Bragg examines King Alfred and the defeat of the Vikings at Battle of Edington.
07 Apr 2005
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Central Asian scientist and historian al-Biruni.
10 Jun 2010
The history and legacy of the English army's defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415.
16 Sep 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 12th century Islamic philosopher, Averroes.
05 Oct 2006
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Persian Islamic philosopher Avicenna.
08 Nov 2007
The history of the ancient kingdom and its religious, national and ethnic ideologies.
11 Apr 2002
The culture, history and legacy of the eastern Byzantine Empire.
19 Jul 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.
17 Jan 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English literature.
09 Feb 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1453 siege of Constantinople which ended the Byzantine Empire.
28 Dec 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles
23 Oct 2008
Melvyn Bragg discusses Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
01 Feb 2007
Melvyn Bragg looks at the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans.
10 Nov 2005
Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between heritage culture and the study of history.
18 Jul 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
04 Feb 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.
09 May 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.
10 Jan 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides.
17 Feb 2011
Melvyn Bragg examines Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the mad man of the woods.
30 Jun 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.
25 Sep 2008
Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.
31 May 2007
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the centuries old myth of the most romantic noble outlaw.
30 Oct 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas.
17 Sep 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims
25 Jun 2009
Melvyn Bragg examines the Abbasid Caliphs, rulers of the Islamic world for 200 years.
02 Feb 2006
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Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.
26 Jun 2008
Melvyn Bragg discusses the myths, tales and legends of the Arabian Nights.
18 Oct 2007
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.
03 Feb 2011
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
22 May 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Emperor Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance.
30 Mar 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
27 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
17 Jan 2008
Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
20 Dec 2007
Melvyn Bragg examines why the Holy Grail legend has fascinated writers for centuries.
15 May 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.
07 May 2009
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
17 Mar 2011
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ‘the Norman Yoke'.
10 Apr 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines the myths and theology that inspired the Vikings.
11 Mar 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, a pivotal moment in England’s history.
16 Nov 2006
Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.
08 Jun 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines events surrounding the medieval division of the Christian Church.
16 Oct 2003
Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.
24 Oct 2002
Melvyn Bragg discusses Joan of Arc's role in the 1428 Siege of Orléans.
24 May 2007
Melvyn Bragg examines the Spanish Inquisition, defenders of medieval orthodoxy.
22 Jun 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
02 Oct 2008
Melvyn Bragg looks at the re-shaping of England as a modern state by the Tudor dynasty.
26 Oct 2000
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.
28 Oct 2010
The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.
25 Nov 2004
The 15th century wars of the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.
18 May 2000
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.
29 Nov 2001
The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.
21 Oct 2004
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss John Wyclif and the Lollards.
16 Jun 2011
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