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Ice Ages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
Decline and Fall
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall.
Pitt-Rivers
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Absolute Zero
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature.
Chekhov
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Water
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
Japan's Sakoku Period
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation.
The Amazons
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth.
The Putney Debates
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
Montaigne
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.
Gnosticism
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Gnosticism, a sect associated with early Christianity.
Icelandic Sagas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.
Cosmic Rays
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
尝茅惫颈-厂迟谤补耻蝉蝉
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
Queen Zenobia
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.
Relativity
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
Prophecy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss prophecy in the Abrahamic religions.
The Physiocrats
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, important French economic thinkers.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Chinese book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Invention of Radio
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
Pascal
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
The Mamluks
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mamluks, medieval rulers of Egypt and Syria.
Exoplanets
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
Galen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman physician and medical theorist Galen.
The Book of Common Prayer
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer.
The Corn Laws
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
The Berlin Conference
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
Ordinary Language Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy.
The Tempest
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Pocahontas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.