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Socrates in Prison
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.
Sir John Soane
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.
Catherine of Aragon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
Oliver Goldsmith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.
Kali
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms
Pollination
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.
Cyrus the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
Thomas Middleton
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
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