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The Haymarket Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
Little Women
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters
The Venetian Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
George Herbert
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
The Antikythera Mechanism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
Italo Calvino
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist
The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
