Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
