In Our Time

Last Edited: 16-Oct-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
All episodes broadcast on BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.
2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006,  2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009 2010-2011
1998-1999
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
15-Oct-1998
 1-1
#1
 War in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:30, 25797, S
22-Oct-1998
 1-2
#2
 Politics in the 20 Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:57, 26211, S
29-Oct-2010
 1-3
#3
 Science's Revelations
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:43, 25990, S
05-Nov-1998
 1-4
#4
 Science in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:43, 25995, S
12-Nov-1998
 1-5
#5
 The City in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:41, 25969, S
19-Nov-1998
 1-6
#6
 The Brain and Consciousness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:34, 25855, S
26-Nov-1998
 1-7
#7
 Work in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:37, 25901, S
03-Dec-1998
 1-8
#8
 History's Relevance in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
28:06, 26348, S
10-Dec-1998
 1-9
#9
 Cultural Rights in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:49, 26091, S
17-Dec-1998
 1-10
#10
 The American Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:35, 25862, S
24-Dec-1998
 1-11
#11
 Neuroscience in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:56, 26197, S
31-Dec-1998
 1-12
#12
 The British Empire's Legacy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:59, 26244, S
07-Jan-1999
 1-13
#13
 Feminism and Darwinism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
28:06, 26348, S
14-Jan-1999
 1-14
#14
 Genetic Engineering
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by
27:36, 25884, S
21-Jan-1999
 1-15
#15
 Modern Culture
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:38, 25909, S
28-Jan-1999
 1-16
#16
 Ageing
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman		 27:11, 16664, S
04-Feb-1999
 1-17
#17
 Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:43, 16689, S
11-Feb-1999
 1-18
#18
 Language and the Mind
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:20, 16581, S
18-Feb-1999
 1-19
#19
 Space in Religion and Science
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:34, 16581, S
25-Feb-1999
 1-20
#20
 The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:54, 16807, S
04-Mar-1999
 1-21
#21
 Shakespeare and Literary Criticism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 26:55, 16271, S
11-Mar-1999
 1-22
#22
 History as Science
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:26, 16578, S
18-Mar-1999
 1-23
#23
 Animal Experiments and Rights
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:45, 16936, S
25-Mar-1999
 1-24
#24
 Architecture in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:29, 17445, S
01-Apr-1999
 1-25
#25
 Good and Evil
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:43, 16491, S
08-Apr-1999
 1-26
#26
 Writing and Political Oppression
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:52, 16709, S
15-Apr-1999
 1-27
#27
 Evolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:50, 16938, S
22-Apr-1999
 1-28
#28
 Fundamentalism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:38, 17105, S
29-Apr-1999
 1-29
#29
 Artificial Intelligence
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:45, 17219, S
06-May-1999
 1-30
#30
 Mathematics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:38, 16971, S
13-May-1999
 1-31
#31
 Multiculturalism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:38, 16485, S
20-May-1999
 1-32
#32
 The Universe's Origins
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:41, 16855, S
27-May-1999
 1-33
#33
 Memory and Culture
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:38, 16825, S
03-Jun-1999
 1-34
#34
 Just War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:43, 16866, S
10-Jun-1999
 1-35
#35
 The Monarchy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:34, 16766, S
17-Jun-1999
 1-36
#37
 The Great Disruption
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:38, 17142, S
24-Jun-1999
 1-37
#37
 Capitalism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:43, 17423, S
01-Jul-1999
 1-38
#38
 Intelligence
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:43, 17088, S
08-Jul-1999
 1-39
#39
 Africa
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:47, 166165, S
15-Jul-1999
 1-40
#40
 Truth, Lies and Fiction
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:29, 16519, S
22-Jul-1999
 1-41
#41
 Pain
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 27:45, 16394, S
23-Sep-1999
 2-1
#42
 Genetic Determinism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Joanna Rahim
 27:43, 17122, S
30-Sep-1999
 2-2
#43
 Maths and Storytelling
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Joanna Rahim
 27:38, 16936, S
07-Oct-1999
 2-3
#44
 Utopia
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Joanna Rahim
 28:18, 12180, S
14-Oct-1999
 2-4
#45
 The Nation State
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Joanna Rahim
 27:41, 17410, S
21-Oct-1999
 2-5
#46
 The Individual
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Joanna Rahim
 27:36, 16772, S
28-Oct-1999
 2-6
#47
 Atrocity in the 20th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Joanna Rahim
 27:29, 16318, S
04-Nov-1999
 2-7
#48
 Education
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:47, 16737, S
11-Nov-1999
 2-8
#49
 The Novel
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:45, 16878, S
18-Nov-1999
 2-9
#50
 Progress
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 28:10, 17195, S
25-Nov-1999
 2-10
#51
 Consciousness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:29, 16903, S
02-Dec-1999
 2-11
#52
 Tragedy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:41, 16785, S
09-Dec-1999
 2-12
#53
 Childhood
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:38, 16857, S
16-Dec-1999
 2-13
#54
 Medical Ethics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:13, 16773, S
23-Dec-1999
 2-14
#55
 Prayer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:50, 16890, S
30-Dec-1999
 2-15
#56
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:50, 16804, S
2000
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
06-Jan-2000
 2-16
#57
 Climate Change
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:04, 16312, S
13-Jan-2000
 2-17
#58
 Information Technology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27;13, 16537, S
20-Jan-2000
 2-18
#59
 Masculinity in Literature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:43, 16665, S
27-Jan-2000
 2-19
#60
 Economic Rights
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:13, 17047, S
03-Feb-2000
 2-20
#61
 Republicanism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16931, S
10-Feb-2000
 2-21
#62
 Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:32, 17395, S
17-Feb-2000
 2-22
#63
 Reading
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 27:47, 17004, S
24-Feb-2000
 2-23
#64
 Grand Unified Theory
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:47, 18013, S
02-Mar-2000
 2-24
#65
 Metamorphosis
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:45, 16983, S
09-Mar-2000
 2-25
#66
 The Age of Doubt
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16424, S
16-Mar-2000
 2-26
#67
 Lenin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:38, 16998, S
23-Mar-2000
 2-27
#68
 Materialism and the consumer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:47, 16651, S
30-Mar-2000
 2-28
#69
 History and Understanding the Past
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:43, 16869, S
06-Apr-2000
 2-29
#70
 The Natural Order
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:59, 17066, S
13-Apr-2000
 2-30
#71
 New Wars
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:27, 16286, S
20-Apr-2000
 2-31
#72
 Englishness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:20, 25151, S
27-Apr-2000
 2-32
#73
 Human Origins
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:38, 17214, S
04-May-2000
 2-33
#74
 Death
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:59, 17830, S
11-May-2000
 2-34
#75
 Shakespeare's Work
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Ariane Koek
 27:57, 17226, S
18-May-2000
 2-35
#76
 The Wars of the Roses
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Ariane Koek
 27:50, 17062, S
25-May-2000
 2-36
#77
 Chemical Elements
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:34, 16771, S
01-Jun-2000
 2-37
#78
 The American Ideal
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:49, 25678, S
08-Jun-2000
 2-38
#79
 The Renaissance
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:54, 25014, S
15-Jun-2000
 2-39
#80
 Inspiration and Genius
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16990, S
22-Jun-2000
 2-40
#81
 Biography
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:47, 16891, S
29-Jun-2000
 2-41
#82
 Imagination and Consciousness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:03, 25358, S
28-Sep-2000
 3-1
#83
 London
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		41:02, 25067, S
05-Oct-2000
 3-2
#84
 Hitler in History
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		41:52, 25570, S
12-Oct-2000 3-3
#85
 The Romantics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		41:49, 31770, S
19-Oct-2000 3-4
#86
 Laws of Nature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		27:38, 16926, S
26-Oct-2000 3-5
#87
 The Tudor State
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		41:42, 25591, S
02-Nov-2000 3-6
#88
 Evolutionary Psychology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		27:50, 16851, S
09-Nov-2000 3-7
#89
 Psychoanalysis and Literature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		41:38, 25481, S
16-Nov-2000 3-8
#90
 Nihilism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor 		27:50, 17274, S


Series 3 resumed on 04-Jan-2001

2001
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
04-Jan-2001
 3-9
 Gothic
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 2757, 17004, S
11-Jan-2001
 3-10
 Mathematics and Platonism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:54, 16891, S
18-Jan-2001
 3-11
 The Enlightenment in Britain
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:38, 25732, S
25-Jan-2001
 3-12
 Science and Religion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:33, 25420, S
01-Feb-2001
 3-13
 Imperial Science
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:52, 17214, S
08-Feb-2001
 3-14
 Humanism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:54, 16821, S
15-Feb-2001
 3-15
 The Restoration
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:41, 16794, S
22-Feb-2001
 3-16
 Quantum Gravity
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16788, S
01-Mar-2001
 3-17
 Money
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16673, S
08-Mar-2001
no program

15-Mar-2001
 3-18
 Shakespeare's Life
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:45, 16840, S
22-Mar-2001
 3-19
 Fossils
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:40, 26068, S
29-Mar-2001
 3-20
 The Philosophy of Love
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:38, 16462, S
05-Apr-2001
 3-21
 The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th Century
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:43, 17213, S
12-Apr-2001
 3-22
 Black Holes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:43, 17069, S
19-Apr-2001
 3-23
 The Glorious Revolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:31, 25155, S
26-Apr-2001
 3-24
 Literary Modernism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:40, 25198, S
03-May-2001
 3-25
 Evil
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:57. 17017, S
10-May-2001
17-May-2001
24-May-2001
31-May-2001
07-Jun-2001
no programs

14-Jun-2001
 3-26
 The French Revolution's Legacy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:47, 16944, S
21-Jun-2001
 3-27
 The Sonnet
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:54, 16573, S
28-Jun-2001
 3-28
 Existentialism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:27, 16615, S
05-Jul-2001
 3-29
 The Earth's Origins
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:45, 16693, S
12-Jul-2001
 3-30
 Dickens
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:52, 16736, S
19-Jul-2001
 3-31
 Byzantium
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:31, 25218, S
18-Oct-2001
 4-1
 Democracy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:53, 36267, S
25-Oct-2001
 4-2
 Napoleon and Wellington
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:45, 16886, S
01-Nov-2001
 4-3
 Confucius
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16968, S
08-Nov-2001
 4-4
 The British Empire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:45, 17126, S
15-Nov-2001
 4-5
 Surrealism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:46, 38254, S
22-Nov-2001
 4-6
 Oceanography
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:43, 16757, S
29-Nov-2001
 4-7
 Third Crusade
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:34, 16889, S
06-Dec-2001
 4-8
 Oscar Wilde
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:43, 17148, S
13-Dec-2001
 4-9
 Genetics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:29, 15858, S
20-Dec-2001
 4-10
 Rome and European Civilisation
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:29, 11390, S
27-Dec-2001 4-11
 Food
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor		 41:52, 25509, S
2002-2003
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
03-Jan-2002
 4-12
 Sensibility
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:40, 26187, S
10-Jan-2002
 4-13
 Nuclear Physics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:36, 16882, S
17-Jan-2002
 4-14
 Catharism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:47, 40647, S
24-Jan-2002
 4-15
 Happiness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:34, 16807, S
31-Jan-2002
 4-16
 Yeats and Mysticism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:47, 17216, S
07-Feb-2002
 4-17
 The Universe's Shape
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:35, 11273, S
14-Feb-2002
 4-18
 Anatomy
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:50, 16543, S
21-Feb-2002
 4-19
 The Celts
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:51, 16835, S
28-Feb-2002
 4-20
 Virtue
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:43, 25845, S
07-Mar-2002
 4-21
 John Milton
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 28:00, 16835, S
14-Mar-2002
 4-22
 The Buddha
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:58, 9857, S
21-Mar-2002
 4-23
 Marriage
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:56, 9913, S
28-Mar-2002
 4-24
 The Artist
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:56, 9936, S
04-Apr-2002
 4-25
 Extra Terrestrials
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:55, 9893, S
1`-Apr-2002
 4-26
 Bohemia
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:58, 9832, S
18-Apr-2002
no program

25-Apr-2002
 4-29
 Tolstoy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:55, 9898, S
02-May-2002
 4-28
 The Physics of Reality
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:56, 9846, S
09-May-2002
 4-29
 The Examined Life
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:58, 9936, S
16-May-2002
 4-30
 Chaos Theory

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:55, 9925, S
23-May-2002
 4-31
 Drugs
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:56, 9874, S
30-May-2002
 4-32
 The Grand Tour
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:56, 9994, S
06-Jun-2002 4-33
 The Soul
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 44:55, 9866, S
13-Jun-2002 4-34
 The American West
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 44:58, 9907, S
20-Jun-2002
 4-35
 Wagner
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein		 44:55, 9867, S
27-Jun-2002
 4-36
 Cultural Imperialism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein		 44:57, 9874, S
04-Jul-2002
 4-37
 Freedom
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein		 44:56, 9910, S
11-Jul-2002
 4-38
 Psychoanalysis and Democracy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein		 44:55, 9870, S
18-Jul-2002
 4-39
 Heritage
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein		 44:58, 9977, S
17-Oct-2002
 5-1
#150
 Captivity, Slavery and Empire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:37, 41709, S
24-Oct-2002
 5-2
 The Scientist
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:28, 39511, S
31-Oct-2002
 5-3
 Architecture and Power
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:28, 39014, S
07-Nov-2002
 5-4
 Human Nature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 42:28, 41503, S
14-Nov-2002
 5-5
 Victorian Realism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters		 42:32, 42584, S
21-Nov-2002
 5-6
 Muslim Spain
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:34, 41577, S
28-Nov-2002
 5-7
 Imagination
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:32, 42822, S
05-Dec-2002
 5-8
 The Enlightenment in Scotland
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:30, 41416, S
12-Dec-2002
 5-9
 Man and Disease
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:34, 41708, S
19-Dec-2002
 5-10
 The Calendar
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Alice Feinstein
 42:34, 43402, S
26-Dec-2002
02-Jan-2003
09-Jan-2003
16-Jan-2003
23-Jan-2003
30-Jan-2003
no programs

06-Feb-2003
 5-11
 The Epic from Homer to Joyce
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 42:00, 39387, S
13-Feb-2003
 Snnenn
 Chance and Design in Nature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 42:02, 39414, S
20-Feb-2003
 Snnenn
 The Lindisfarne Gospels
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 41:55, 39300, S
27-Feb-2003
 Snnenn
 The Aztecs
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 42:11, 39555, S
06-Mar-2003
 Snnenn
 Meteorology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 42:04, 39444, S
13-Mar-2003
 Snnenn
 Redemption
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 42:05, 39456, S
20-Mar-2003
 Snnenn
 Originality
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 40:53, 38343, S
27-Mar-2003
 Snnenn
 The Life Cycle of Stars
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 40:51, 38309, S
03-Apr-2003
 Snnenn
 The Spanish Civil War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 40:59, 38437, S
10-Apr-2003
 Snnenn
 No program
 -
 -
17-Apr-2003
 Snnenn
 Proust
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 41:05, 38524, S
24-Apr-2003
 Snnenn
 Youth
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Sarah Peters
 41:45, 39152, S
01-May-2003
 Snnenn
 Romans in Britain
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:50, 19610, m
08-May-2003
 Snnenn
 The Jacobite Rebellion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:06, 39473, S
15-May-2003
 Snnenn
 The Holy Grail
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:03, 39432, S
22-May-2003
 Snnenn
 Blood
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:25, 38839, S
29-May-2003
 Snnenn
 Memory and the Brain
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:56, 39320, S
05-Jun-2003
 Snnenn
 The Lunar Society
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39393, S
12-Jun-2003
 Snnenn
 The Art of War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Coolidge
 42:07, 39491, S
19-Jun-2003
 Snnenn
 The Aristocracy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:04, 39450, S
26-Jun-2003
 Snnenn
 The East India Company
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:01, 39394, S
03-Jul-2003
 Snnenn
 Vulcanology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:04, 39448, S
10-Jul-2003
 Snnenn
 Nature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:02, 39409, S
17-Jul-2003
 Snnenn
 The Apocalypse
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:16, 39636, S
2003-2004
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Oct-2003
 6-1
#186
 James Clerk Maxwell
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:05, 39456, S
09-Oct-2003
 Snnenn
 Bohemianism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:04, 39439, S
16-Oct-2003
 Snnenn
 The Great Schism of 1054
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:52, 39256, S
23-Oct-2003
 Snnenn
 Infinity
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:12, 39570, S
30-Oct-2003
 Snnenn
 Robin Hood
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:13, 39578, S
06-Nov-2003
 Snnenn
 19th Century Sensation Novels
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:11, 39555, S
13-Nov-2003
 Snnenn
 Duty
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:11, 19776, m
20-Nov-2003
 Snnenn
 Ageing the Earth
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:04, 39452, S
27-Nov-2003
 Snnenn
 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:00, 39380, S
04-Dec-2003
 Snnenn
 Ludwig Wittgenstein
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:12, 39573, S
11-Dec-2003
 Snnenn
 The Devil
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Ellie Ann Glasen
 42:01, 39403, S
18-Dec-2003
 Snnenn
 Origin of the Alphabet
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:05, 39456, S
26-Dec-2003
 Snnenn
 Lamarck And Natural Selection
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 56:49, 26637, m
29-Jan-2004
 Snnenn
 Cryptography
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:20, 39701, S
05-Feb-2004
 Snnenn
 The Battle of Thermopylae
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:07, 39500, S
12-Feb-2004
 Snnenn
 The Sublime
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:14, 39601, S
19-Feb-2004
 Snnenn
 Ernest Rutherford – the father of nuclear physics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:17, 39654, S
26-Feb-2004
 Snnenn
 The Mughal Empire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:53, 39275, S
04-Mar-2004
 Snnenn
 Dreams
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:06, 39478, S
11-Mar-2004
 Snnenn
 The Norse Gods
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:00, 39386, S
18-Mar-2004
 Snnenn
 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(and did Christianity have a role in it?)
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 27:59, 26245, S
25-Mar-2004
 Snnenn
 The Theory of Everything
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:19, 39678, S
01-Apr-2004
 Snnenn
 The Warring States Period of China
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:58, 39350, S
08-Apr-2004
 Snnenn
 The Fall of Adam and Eve
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:06, 39476, S
15-Apr-2004
 Snnenn
 Romantic Poets
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:08, 39510, S
22-Apr-2004
 Snnenn
 Hysteria
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:13, 39588, S
29-Apr-2004
 Snnenn
 Tea
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:15, 39615, S
06-May-2004
 Snnenn
 Heroism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:05, 39459, S
13-May-2004
 Snnenn
 Zero
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:06, 39475, S
20-May-2004
 Snnenn
 Toleration
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:03, 39434, S
27-May-2004
 Snnenn
 The Planets and Astronomy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:52, 39264, S
03-Jun-2004
 Snnenn
 Babylon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:04, 39445, S
10-Jun-2004
 Snnenn
 Empiricism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:16, 39638, S
17-Jun-2004
 Snnenn
 Renaissance Magic
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:06, 39485, S
24-Jun-2004
 Snnenn
 George Washington and the American Revolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:07, 39495, S
2004-2005
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Sep-2004
 7-1
#221
 Pi
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:59, 39372, S
09-Sep-2004
 Snne02
 The Odyssey
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:03, 39426, S
16-Sep-2004
 Snne03
 Agincourt, 1415
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:01, 39394, S
23-Sep-2004
 Snne04
 The Origins of Life
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:06, 39474, S
30-Sep-2004
 Snne05
 Politeness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:01, 39403, S
07-Oct-2004
 Snne06
 Jean-Paul Sartre
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:56, 39325, S
14-Oct-2004
 Snne07
 The Han Synthesis
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:58, 39347, S
21-Oct-2004
 Snne08
 Witchcraft
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:08, 39503, S
28-Oct-2004
 Snne09
 Rhetoric
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:58, 39355, S
04-Nov-2004
 Snne10
 Electrickery
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:56, 39320, S
11-Nov-2004
 Snne11
 Zoroastrianism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:57, 39338, S
18-Nov-2004
 Snne12
 The Higgs Boson
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:09, 39524, S
25-Nov-2004
 Snne13
 The Venerable Bede
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:08, 39505, S
02-Dec-2004
 Snne14
 Carl Gustav Jung
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:02, 39411, S
09-Dec-2004
 Snne15
 Machiavelli and Italian City States
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:55, 39307, S
16-Dec-2004
 Snne16
 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:07, 39490, S
23-Dec-2004
 Snne17
 Faust
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:04, 39439, S
30-Dec-2004
 Snne18
 The Roman Republic
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:05, 39461, S
06-Jan-2005
 Snne19
 The Assassination of Czar Alexander II
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:49, 39220, S
13-Jan-2005
 Snne20
 The Mind/Body Problem
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:57, 39335, S
17-Feb-2005
 Snne21
 The Cambrian Explosion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:07, 39486, S
24-Feb-2005
 Snne22
 Alchemy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:02, 39420, S
03-Mar-2005
 Snne23
 Stoicism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:45, 39149, S
10-Mar-2005
 Snne24
 Utopias
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:02, 39420, S
17-Mar-2005
 Snne25
 Dark Energy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:49, 39210, S
24-Mar-2005
 Snne26
 Angels
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:59, 39366, S
31-Mar-2005
 Snne27
 John Ruskin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:59, 39367, S
07-Apr-2005
 Snne28
 Alfred the Great and the Battle of Edington
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:59, 39370, S
14-Apr-2005
 Snne29
 Archaeology and Imperialism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:11, 39551, S
21-Apr-2005
 Snne30
 The Aeneid
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:39, 39060, S
28-Apr-2005
 Snne31
 Perception and the Senses
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:08, 39515, S
05-May-2005
 Snne32
 Abelard and Heloise
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:46, 39168, S
12-May-2005
 -
 No programme
 -
 -
19-May-2005
 Snne33
 The Philosophy of Beauty
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:14, 39604, S
26-May-2005
 Snne34
 The Terror – When the Guillotine Ruled France
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:13, 39592, S
02-Jun-2005
 Snne35
 Renaissance Maths
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:07, 39501, S
09-Jun-2005
 Snne36
 The Scriblerus Club
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:54, 39289, S
16-Jun-2005
 Snne37
 Paganism in the Renaissance
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:08, 39511, S
23-Jun-2005
 Snne38
 The KT Boundary
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:00, 39386, S
30-Jun-2005
 Snne39
 Merlin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:01, 39401, S
07-Jul-2005
 Snne40
 Christopher Marlowe
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:56, 39315, S
14-Jul-2005
 Snne41
 Karl Marx – the Most Popular Philosopher
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:54, 39284, S

2005-2006
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
29-Sep-2005
 8-1
#262
 Magnetism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:49, 39219, S
06-Oct-2005
 Snne02
 Field of the Cloth of Gold
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:05, 39463, S
13-Oct-2005
 Snne03
 The Rise of the Mammals
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:48, 39190, S
20-Oct-2005
 Snne04
 The Cynics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 41:49, 19603, m
27-Oct-2005
 Snne05
 Samuel Johnson and His Circle
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:00, 39380, S
03-Nov-2005
 Snne06
 Asteroids
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:54, 39283, S
10-Nov-2005
 Snne07
 Greyfriars and Blackfriars
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:56, 39326, S
17-Nov-2005
 Snne08
 Pragmatism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:50, 39234, S
24-Nov-2005
 Snne09
 The Graviton
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:47, 39173, S
01-Dec-2005
 Snne10
 Thomas Hobbes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:37, 39025, S
08-Dec-2005
 Snne11
 Artificial Intelligence
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 40:00, 37508, S
15-Dec-2005
 Snne12
 The Peterloo Massacre
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:56, 39323, S
22-Dec-2005
 Snne13
 Heaven
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:07, 39491, S
29-Dec-2005
 Snne14
 The Oresteia by Aeschylus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Helen Watts
 42:21, 39709, S
05-Jan-2006
 Snne15
 The Oath in Classical World
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:00, 39391, S
12-Jan-2006
 Snne16
 Prime Numbers
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:05, 39460, S
19-Jan-2006
 Snne17
 Relativism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:07, 39495, S
26-Jan-2006
 Snne18
 Seventeenth Century Print Culture
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:07, 39486, S
02-Feb-2006
 Snne19
 The Abbasid Caliphs
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:51, 39238, S
09-Feb-2006
 Snne20
 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:07, 39494, S
16-Feb-2006
 Snne21
 Human Evolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Helen Watts
 41:50, 39232, S
23-Feb-2006
 Snne22
 Catherine the Great - the Enlightened Despot
of Eighteenth Century Russia		 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:55, 39314, S
02-Mar-2006
 Snne23
 Friendship
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:37, 39024, S
09-Mar-2006
 Snne24
 Negative Numbers
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:47, 39186, S
16-Mar-2006
 Snne25
 Don Quixote
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:56, 39320, S
23-Mar-2006
 Snne26
 The Royal Society
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:05, 39457, S
30-Mar-2006
 Snne27
 The Carolingian Renaissance
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:51, 39238, S
06-Apr-2006
 Snne28
 Goethe – formation of a German cultural icon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:47, 39187, S
13-Apr-2006
 Snne29
 The Oxford Movement
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Ruth Watts
 42:06, 39482, S
20-Apr-2006
 Snne30
 The Search for Immunisation
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Catherine Wood
 42:02, 39407, S
27-Apr-2006
 Snne31
 The Great Exhibition
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 41:57, 39331, S
04-May-2006
 Snne32
 Astronomy and Empire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:05, 39467, S
11-May-2006
 Snne33
 Faeries
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:02, 39417, S
18-May-2006
 Snne34
 John Stuart Mill
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:04, 39443, S
25-May-2006
 Snne35
 Mathematics and Music
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:00, 39381, S
01-Jun-2006
 Snne36
 The Heart
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:02, 39415, S
08-Jun-2006
 Snne37
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:01, 39407, S
15-Jun-2006
 Snne38
 Carbon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:06, 39473, S
22-Jun-2006
 Snne39
 The Spanish Inquisition
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:02, 39407, S
29-Jun-2006
 Snne40
 Galaxies
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 42:02, 39407, S
06-Jul-2006
 Snne41
 Pastoral Literature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Moore
 42:00, 39385, S
13-Jul-2006
 Snne42
 Greek Comedies
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 41:22. 38797, S
2006-2007
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
28-Sep-2006
 9-1
#304
 Alexander Von Humboldt
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cooke
 41:53, 39282, S
05-Oct-2006
 Snne02
 Averroes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cooke
 42:07, 39501, S
12-Oct-2006
 Snne03
 The Diet of Worms
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cooke
 41:57, 39340, S
19-Oct-2006
 Snne04
 The Needham Question
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cooke
 42:04, 39451, S
26-Oct-2006
 Snne05
 The Encyclopedie
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:42, 39263, S
02-Nov-2006
 Snne06
 Poincare’s Conjecture
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:08, 39503, S
09-Nov-2006
 Snne07
 Alexander Pope
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 42:01, 39397, S
16-Nov-2006
 Snne08
 The Peasants’ Revolt
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:05, 39454, S
23-Nov-2006
 Snne09
 Altruism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:00, 39378, S
30-Nov-2006
 Snne10
 The Speed of Light
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:02, 39414, S
07-Dec-2006
 Snne11
 Anarchy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:58, 39357, S
14-Dec-2006
 Snne12
 Indian Mathematics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:58, 39349, S
21-Dec-2006
 Snne13
 Hell
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:02, 39423, S
28-Dec-2006
 Snne14
 The Siege of Constantinople
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:03, 39424, S
04-Jan-2007
 Snne15
 Jorge Luis Borges
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:04, 39441, S
11-Jan-2007
 Snne16
 Mars
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:08, 39509, S
18-Jan-2007
 Snne17
 The Jesuits -the school masters of Europe
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:44, 39127, S
25-Jan-2007
 Snne18
 Archimedes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:07, 39500, S
01-Feb-2007
 Snne19
 Genghis Khan
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:32, 38943, S
08-Feb-2007
 Snne20
 Karl Popper
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:01, 39396, S
15-Feb-2007
 Snne21
 Heart of Darkness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:09, 39529, S
22-Feb-2007
 Snne22
 William Wilberforce
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Tom Alban
 43:02,40357, S
01-Mar-2007
 Snne23
 The History of Optics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:00, 39385, S
08-Mar-2007
 Snne24
 Microbiology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:44, 39130, S
15-Mar-2007
 Snne25
 Epistolary Literature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:02, 39423, S
22-Mar-2007
 Snne26
 Bismarck – the Iron Chancellor
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:00, 39391, S
29-Mar-2007
 Snne27
 Anaesthetics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:47, 39182, S
05-Apr-2007
 Snne28
 St Hilda
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:02, 39407, S
12-Apr-2007
 Snne29
 the Opium Wars
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:14, 38663, S
19-Apr-2007
 Snne30
 Symmetry
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:02, 39415, S
26-Apr-2007
 Snne31
 Greek and Roman Love Poetry
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:56, 39316, S
03-May-2007
 Snne32
 Spinoza
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39392, S
10-May-2007
 Snne33
 Victorian Pessimism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:50, 39232, S
17-May-2007
 Snne34
 Gravitational Waves
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39407, S
24-May-2007
 Snne35
 The Siege of Orleans
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 4204, 39443, S
31-May-2007
 Snne36
 Ockham’s Razor
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39341, S
07-Jun-2007
 Snne37
 Siegfried Sassoon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:50, 39232, S
14-Jun-2007
 Snne38
 Renaissance astrology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:59, 39367, S
21-Jun-2007
 Snne39
 Common Sense Philosophy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:58, 39356, S
28-Jun-2007
 Snne40
 The Permian-Triassic Boundary
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:58, 39349, S
05-Jul-2007
 Snne41
 The Pilgrim Fathers
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39392, S
12-Jul-2007
 Snne42
 The Trial Of Madame Bovary
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:00, 39384, S
2007-2008
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
27-Sep-2007
 10-1
#346
 Socrates
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:52, 39262, S
04-Oct-2007
 Snne02
 Antimatter
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:02, 39407, S
11-Oct-2007
 Snne03
 The Divine Right of Kings
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:49, 39205, S
18-Oct-2007
 Snne04
 The Arabian Nights
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:53, 39270, S
25-Oct-2007
 Snne05
 Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39398, S
01-Nov-2007
 Snne06
 Guilt - what is it good for?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39331, S
08-Nov-2007
 Snne07
 Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:39, 39048, S
15-Nov-2007
 Snne08
 The Discovery of Oxygen -
feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:05, 39457, S
22-Nov-2007
 Snne09
 Wordsworth's Prelude
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:54, 39288, S
29-Nov-2007
 Snne10
 The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:00, 39388, S
06-Dec-2007
 Snne11
 Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:45, 39156, S
13-Dec-2007
 Snne12
 The Sassanian Empire - in the shadow of Ancient Persia
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:36, 39003, S
20-Dec-2007
 Snne13
 The Four Humours - yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm
in the original theory of everything
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:54, 39296, S
27-Dec-2007
 Snne14
 The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39397, S
03-Jan-2008
 Snne15
 Albert Camus - Rebel with a Cause
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 42:09, 39527, S
10-Jan-2008
 Snne16
 The Charge of the Light Brigade -
"All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred"
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:04, 39445, S
17-Jan-2008
 Snne17
 The Myth Of The Fisher King
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:08, 39515, S
24-Jan-2008
 Snne18
 Plate Tectonics - the day the Earth moved
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:59, 39362, S
31-Jan-2008
 Snne19
 The Court of Rudolf II -
the lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:53, 19697, S
07-Feb-2008
 Snne20
 The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
and the Origins of Society
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:37, 39029, S
14-Feb-2008
 Snne21
 The Statue of Liberty - From France with love...
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:00, 39391, S
21-Feb-2008
 Snne22
 The Multiverse - the universe is not enough
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:46, 39162, S
28-Feb-2008
 Snne23
 King Lear - Shakespeare's finest fairy tale
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:05, 39456, S
06-Mar-2008
 Snne24
 Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:52, 39260, S
13-Mar-2008
 Snne25
 The Greek Myths - soap opera of the gods
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:03, 39434, S
20-Mar-2008
 Snne26
 Søren Kierkegaard  - fear and trembling in Copenhagen
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39337, S
27-Mar-2008
 Snne27
 The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman
 42:07, 39486, S
03-Apr-2008
 snne28
 Newton's Laws of Motion - they put a man on the Moon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:59, 39372, S
10-Apr-2008
 snne29
 The Norman Yoke - 1067 and all that
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39340, S
17-Apr-2008
 snne30
 Yeats and Irish Politics - "a terrible beauty is born"
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:05, 39469, S
24-Apr-2008
 snne31
 Materialism - are we living in a material world Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:55, 39308, S
01-May-2008
 snne32
 The Enclosures - dividing the country Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:04, 39448, S
08-May-2008
 snne33
 The Brain: A History - food for thought Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:55, 39302, S
15-May-2008
 snne34
 The Library at Nineveh - treasure trove of Assyrian ideas Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:58, 39346, S
22-May-2008
 snne35
 The Black Death -- a plague on all our houses Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:00, 39378, S
29-May-2008
 snne36
 Probability - heads or tails? Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:00, 39384, S
05-Jun-2008
 snne37
 Trofim Lysenko - Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:56, 39329, S
12-Jun-2008
 snne38
 The Riddle of the Sands -
how Britain learned to fear the Germans		 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:51, 39240, S
19-Jun-2008
 snne39
 The Music of the Spheres - a dose of heavenly harmonies Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39339, S
26-Jun-2008
 snne40
 The Arab Conquests - the 7th century new world order Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:52, 39263, S
03-Jul-2008
 snne41
 The Metaphysical Poets - sex and death in the 17th century Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39343, S
10-Jul-2008
 snne42
 Tacitus -The Decadence of Rome Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:49, 39209, S
2008-2009
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
25-Sep-2008 11-1
#388
 Miracles - will they never cease?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 42:09, 39523, S
02-Oct-2008 Snne02 The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 42:05, 39456, S
09-Oct-2008 Snne03 Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems -
the dirty secret of maths
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 41:59, 39372, S
16-Oct-2008 Snne04 Vitalism - the spark of life
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 41:51, 39249, S
23-Oct-2008 Snne05 Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 41:54, 39289, S
30-Oct-2008 Snne06 Simón Bolívar - the liberator of Spanish America
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 42:02, 39423, S
06-Nov-2008 Snne07 Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 41:54, 39289, S
13-Nov-2008 Snne08 Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 41:47, 39178, S
20-Nov-2008 Snne09 The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook		 42:04, 39447, S
27-Nov-2008 Snne10 The Great Reform Act: reform - but was it great
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernadez		 42:05, 39467, S
04-Dec-2008 Snne11 Heat, A History - from fire to thermodynamics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:59, 39360, S
11-Dec-2008 Snne12 The Great Fire of London -
London's burning, fetch the engines
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:51, 39241, S
18-Dec-2008 Snne13 The Physics of Time - does time even exist?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:10, 39535, S
25-Dec-2008   No programme    
01-Jan-2009 14 The Consolation of Philosophy -
a new year's message from Boethius
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:06, 39475, S
05-Jan-2009 15a Darwin 1 - On the Origins of Charles Darwin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:43, 40062, S
06-Jan-2009 15b Darwin 2 - The Voyage of the Beagle
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:15, 39618, S
07-Jan-2009 15c Darwin 3 - On the Origin of Species
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by John Watkins
 42:01, 39396, S
08-Jan-2009 15d Darwin 4 - On the Origin of Species
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by John Watkins
 41:54, 39285, S
15-Jan-2009 16 Thoreau and the American Idyll -
America in the Wilderness
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernadez
 41:55, 39303, S
22-Jan-2009 17 A History of History -
how the writing of history has evolved
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:07, 39486, S
29-Jan-2009 18 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift -
18th century satire gets close to the bone
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:00, 39387, S
05-Feb-2009 19 The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm -
but not as we know them
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:58, 39348, S
12-Feb-2009 20 The Destruction of Carthage -"Delenda Carthago!"
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:02, 39407, S
19-Feb-2009 21 The Observatory at Jaipur -
Indian astronomy on the cusp of colonialism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:59, 39376, S
26-Feb-2009 22 The Waste Land and Modernity -
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 41:53, 39283, S
05-Mar-2009 23 The Measurement Problem in Physics -
Man is not the measure of all things
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:56, 39317, S
12-Mar-2009 24 The Library of Alexandria -
of all the books in all the world…
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:54, 39294, S
19-Mar-2009 25 The Boxer Rebellion - "Kill all Foreigners!"
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernadez
 42:05, 39468, S
26-Mar-2009 26 The School of Athens -
picturing Greece in Renaissance minds
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Charlie Taylor
 42:08, 39510, S
02-Apr-2009 27 Baconian Science -
Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:57, 39340, S
09-Apr-2009 28 Brave New World
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:01, 39403, S
16-Apr-2009 29 Suffragism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:30, 38921, S
23-Apr-2009 30 The Building of St Petersburg
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:05, 39456, S
30-Apr-2009 31 The Vacuum of Space
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:02, 39419, S
07-May-2009 32 The Magna Carta
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:54, 39294, S
14-May-2009 33 The Siege of Vienna
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:48, 39198, S
21-May-2009 34 The Whale - A History
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:09, 39532, S
28-May-2009 35 St Paul
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:53, 39279, S
04-Jun-2009 36 The Trial of Charles I
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:49, 39209, S
11-Jun-2009 37 the Augustan Age
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 42:07, 39486, S
18-Jun-2009 38 Elizabethan Revenge
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:05, 39461, S
25-Jun-2009 39 Sunni and Shia Islam
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:57, 39329, S
02-Jul-2009 40 Logical Positivism - or is it?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:08, 39505, S
09-Jul-2009 41 Ediacara Biota
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:06, 39470, S
2009-2010
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
17-Sep-2009 12-1
#432
 St Thomas Aquinas
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Elaine Leicester
 42:03, 39427, S
24-Sep-2009 2 The Invention of Calculus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:53, 39271, S
01-Oct-2009 3 Akhenaten
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by James Cook
 41:58, 39356, S
08-Oct-2009 4 the Dreyfus Affair
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:06, 39480, S
15-Oct-2009 5 The Death of Elizabeth I
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:03, 38493, S
22-Oct-2009 6 The Geological Formation of Britain
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:56, 39320, S
29-Oct-2009 7 Schopenhauer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:05, 39459, S
05-Nov-2009 8 The Siege of Münster
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:41, 39088, S
12-Nov-2009 9 The Discovery of Radiation
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:53, 39282, S
19-Nov-2009 10 The History of Sparta
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:01, 39402, S
26-Nov-2009 11 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 40:31, 37989, S
03-Dec-2009 12 The Silk Road
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:02, 39415, S
10-Dec-2009 13 Pythagoras
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:39, 39057, S
17-Dec-2009 -- No programme    
24-Dec-2009 14 The Samurai
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:51, 39241, S
31-Dec-2009 15 Mary Wollstonecraft
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:46, 39166, S
04-Jan-2010 to
07-Jan-2010		 16-19 The Royal Society and British Science
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by John Watkins, Alex Mansfield,
James Cook
 41:52, 39251, S
41:51, 39238, S
41:57, 39344, S
41:36, 39007, S
14-Jan-2010 20
 The Frankfurt School
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:47, 39175, S
21-Jan-2010 21
 the Glencoe Massacre of 1692
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:54, 39287, S
28-Jan-2010 22
 Silas Marner
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Emerson
 42:02, 39407, S
04-Feb-2010 23 Ibn Khaldun
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:22, 39735, S
11-Feb-2010 24 Unintended Consequences of Mathematics
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:43, 39123, S
18-Feb-2010 25 The Indian Mutiny
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:03, 39435, S
25-Feb-2010 26 Calvinism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:53, 39278, S
04-Mar-2010 27 The Infant Brain
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:50, 39223, S
11-Mar-2010 28 Boudica
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Emerson
 41:55, 39300, S
18-Mar-2010 29 The Scream and Edvard Munch
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:20, 38755, S
25-Mar-2010
01-Apr-2010		 30-31 The History of the City, part 1 and 2
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:04, 39441, S
42:02, 39418, S
08-Apr-2010 32
 William Hazlitt
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:46, 39166, S
15-Apr-2010 33 The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:57, 39342, S
22-Apr-2010 34 Roman Satire
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:53, 39278, S
29-Apr-2010 35 The Great Wall of China
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:40, 39064, S
06-May-2010 36 The Cool Universe
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 42:04, 39447, S
13-May-2010 37 The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natasha Emerson
 42:06, 39476, S
20-May-2010 38 The Cavendish Family
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Phil Tinline
 41:51, 39248, S
27-May-2010 39 Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:40, 39067, S
03-Jun-2010 37 Edmund Burke
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:53, 39274, S
10-Jun-2010 38 al-Biruni
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:41, 39090, S
17-Jun-2010 39 the Neanderthals
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:00, 39387, S
24-Jun-2010 40 Antarctica
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:51, 39248, S
01-Jul-2010 41 Athelstan
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:57, 39329, S
08-Jul-2010 42 Pliny's Natural History
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:53, 39270, S
2010-2011
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
23-Sep-2010 1 imaginary numbers
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:01, 39404, S
30-Sep-2010 2 the Delphic Oracle
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39325, S
07-Oct-2010 3 the Spanish Armada
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:52, 39257, S
14-Oct-2010 4 Sturm und Drang
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:59, 39363, S
21-Oct-2010 5 Logic Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:00, 39385, S
28-Oct-2010 6 the unicorn
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:46, 39158, S
04-Nov-2010 7 Women and Enlightenment Science
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39317, S
11-Nov-2010 8 the Volga Vikings
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:51, 39243, S
18-Nov-2010 9 Foxe's Book of Martyrs
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39321, S
25-Nov-2010 10 Metaphor
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:53, 39270, S
02-Dec-2010 11 Cleopatra
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:54, 39287, S
09-Dec-2010 12 Thomas Edison
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:04, 39440, S
16-Dec-2010 13 Daoism
 Melvyn Bragg
Producer: Natalia Fernandez
 42:09, 39526, S
23-Dec-2010 14 the Industrial Revolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:01, 39400, S
30-Dec-2010 15
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:04, 39445, S
06-Jan-2011 16 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:43, 39120, S
13-Jan-2011 17 Random and Pseudorandom
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:53, 39279, S
20-Jan-2011 18 the Mexican Revolution of 1910
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:52, 39254, S
27-Jan-2011 19 Aristotle's Poetics
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:48, 39194, S
03-Feb-2011 20 the Battle of Bannockburn
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:52, 39242, S
10-Feb-2011 21 The Nervous System
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:57, 39331, S
17-Feb-2011 22 Maimonides
 Melvyn Bragg
Producer: Natalia Fernandez
 41:59, 39362, S
24-Feb-2011 23 the Taiping Rebellion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:44, 39130, S
03-Mar-2011 24 The Age of the Universe
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:05, 39468, S
10-Mar-2011 25
500th
episode		 Free will
Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:05, 39461, S
17-Mar-2011 26 The Medieval University
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:43, 39121, S
24-Mar-2011 27 The Dawn of the Iron Age
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:57, 39329, S
31-Mar-2011 28 the Bhagavad Gita
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:54, 39291, S
07-Apr-2011 29 Octavia Hill
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:09, 39531, S
14-Apr-2011 30 The Neutrino
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:54, 39295, S
21-Apr-2011 31 the Pelagian Controversy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:04, 39447, S
28-Apr-2011 32 Cogito ergo sum
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:05, 39459, S
05-May-2011 33 The Origins of Islamic Law
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:05, 39462, S
12-May-2011 34 The Anatomy of Melancholy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:04, 39445, S
19-May-2011 35 Custer's Last Stand
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39314, S
26-May-2011 36 Xenophon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:58, 39345, S
02-Jun-2011 37 the Battle of Stamford Bridge
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:49, 39214, S
09-Jun-2011 38 The Origins of Infectious Disease
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:47, 39173, S
16-Jun-2011 39 John Wyclif and the Lollards
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39319, S
23-Jun-2011 40 Malthusianism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:49, 39208, S
30-Jun-2011 41 Tennyson's In Memoriam
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:55, 39299, S
07-Jul-2011 42 The Minoan Civilisation
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:42, 39023, S

2011-2012
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
15-Sep-2011 1 The Hippocratic Oath
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:53, 39196, S
22-Sep-2011 2 Shinto
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39230, S
29-Sep-2011 3 The Etruscan Civilisation
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:50, 39152, S
06-Oct-20111 4 David Hume
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:52, 39171, S
13-Oct-2011 5 the Ming Voyages of discovery
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:51, 39164, S
20-Oct-2011 6 Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:41, 38997, S
27-Oct-2011 7 The Siege of Tenochtitlan
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:49, 39132, S
03-Nov-2011 8 The Moon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:46, 39086, S
10-Nov-2011 9 The Continental-Analytic Split
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:47, 39102, S
17-Nov-2011 10 Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:39, 38975, S
24-Nov-2011 11 Judas Maccabeus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:43, 39033, S
01-Dec-2011 12 Christina Rossetti
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:35, 38905, S
08-Dec-2011 13 Heraclitus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:38, 38959, S
15-Dec-2011 14 the Concordat of Worms of 1122
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:34, 38900, S
22-Dec-2011 15 Robinson Crusoe
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:44, 39057, S
29-Dec-2011 16 Macromolecules
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:53, 39197, S
02-Jan-2012 to
06-Jan-2012		 17a
17b
17c
17d
17e		 The Written World
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 27:57, 26152, S
27:31, 25759, S
27:56, 26150, S
27:42, 25923, S
27:58, 26182, S
12-Jan-2012 18 The Safavid Dynasty
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:50, 39143, S
19-Jan-2012 19 1848: Year of Revolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:37, 38947, S
26-Jan-2012 20 the Scientific Method
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:41, 39001, S
02-Feb-2012 21 The Kama Sutra
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:47, 39103, S
09-Feb-2012 22 Erasmus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:38, 38957, S
16-Feb-2012 23 the An Lushan Rebellion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:49, 39125, S
23-Feb-2012 24 Conductors and Semiconductors
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:40, 38989, S
01-Mar-2012 25 Benjamin Franklin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:41, 39004, S
08-Mar-2012 26 Lyrical Ballads
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:58, 39263, S
15-Mar-2012 27 Vitruvius and De Architectura
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 42:00, 39292, S
22-Mar-2012 28 Moses Mendelssohn
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 42:00, 39297, S
29-Mar-2012 29 The Measurement of Time
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
 41:35, 38905, S
05-Apr-2012 30 George Fox and the Quakers
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:34, 38897, S
12-Apr-2012 31 Early Geology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:56, 39233, S
19-Apr-2012 32 Neoplatonism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:39, 38968, S
26-Apr-2012 33 The Battle of Bosworth Field
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:48, 39108, S
03-May-2012 34 Voltaire's Candide
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:49, 39121, S
10-May-2012 35 Game Theory
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:34, 38889, S
17-May-2012 36 Clausewitz and On War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:47, 39102, S
24-May-2012 37 Marco Polo
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:46, 39079, S
31-May-2012 38 the Trojan War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:37, 38936, S
07-Jun-2012 39 King Solomon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:50, 39141, S
14-Jun-2012 40 James Joyce's Ulysses
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:46, 39088, S
21-Jun-2012 41 Annie Besant
 Melvyn Bragg
Producer: Victoria Brignell
 41:40, 38981, S
28-Jun-2012 42 Al-Kindi
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:32, 38868, S
05-Jul-2012 43 Scepticism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris
 41:50, 39138, S
12-Jul-2012 44 Hadrian's Wall
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell
 41:41, 39007, S

2012-2013
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
13-Sep-2012 1 The Cell Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:45, 39066, S
20-Sep-2012 2 The Druids Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:43, 39038, S
27-Sep-2012 3 The Ontological Argument Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:52, 39174, S
04-Oct-2012 4 Gerald of Wales Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:47, 39090, S
11-Oct-2012 5 Hannibal Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:42, 39024, S
18-Oct-2012 6 Caxton and the Printing Press Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:40, 38996, S
25-Oct-2012 7 Fermat's Last Theorem Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:49, 39125, S
01-Nov-2012 8 The Anarchy Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:55, 39216, S
08-Nov-2012 9 The Upanishads Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:42, 39024, S
15-Nov-2012 10 Simone Weil Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:49, 39127, S
22-Nov-2012 11 The Borgias Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:41, 39003, S
29-Nov-2012 12 Crystallography Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:38, 38964, S
06-Dec-2012 13 Bertrand Russell Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell 		41:57, 39259, S
13-Dec-2012 14 Shahnameh of Ferdowsi Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:46, 39075, S
20-Dec-2012 15 The South Sea Bubble Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:37, 38935, S
27-Dec-2012 16 The Cult of Mithras Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell 		41:52, 39177, S
31-Dec-2012
01-Jan-2013
02-Jan-2013
03-Jan-2013
04-Jan-2013		 17a
17b
17c
17d
17e		 The Value of Culture
  1. Culture and Anarchy
  2. Culture and the Anthropologists
  3. Two Cultures
  4. Mass Culture
  5. What's the Value of Culture Today?
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:40, 38985, S
41:55, 39228, S
41:35, 38912, S
41:46, 39079, S
41:52, 39171, S
10-Jan-2013 18 Le Morte d'Arthur Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Natalia Fernandez 		41:48, 39112, S
17-Jan-2013 19 Comets Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:55, 39226, S
24-Jan-2013 20 Romulus and Remus Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:50, 39136, S
31-Jan-2013 21 The War of 1812 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell 		41:50, 39152, S
07-Feb-2013 22 Epicureanism Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:52, 39178, S
14-Feb-2013 23 Ice Ages Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:51, 39162, S
21-Feb-2013 24 Decline and Fall Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:42, 39013, S
28-Feb-2013 25 Pitt-Rivers Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:18, 38739, S
07-Mar-2013 26 Absolute Zero Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:51, 39166, S
14-Mar-2013 27 Chekhov Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:46, 39126, S
21-Mar-2013 28 Alfred Russel Wallace Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:51, 39194, S
28-Mar-2013 29 Water Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		38:47, 36332, S
04-Apr-2013 30 Japan's Sakoku Period Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris 		41:45, 39128, S
11-Apr-2013
 31
 The Amazons Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:55, 39313, S
18-Apr-2013
 32
 The Putney Debates
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:39, 39017, S
25-Apr-2013
 33
 Montaigne
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:46, 39152, S
02-May-2013
 34
 Gnosticism Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:51, 39206, S
09-May-2013
 35
 Icelandic Sagas Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:48, 39216, S
16-May-2013
 36
 Cosmic Rays Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:44, 39119, S
23-May-2013
 37
 Lévi-Strauss Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:44, 39090, S
30-May-2013
 38
 Queen Zenobia Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39064, S
06-Jun-2013
 39
 Relativity Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:47, 39136, S
13-Jun-2013
 40
 Prophecy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:48, 48952, S
20-Jun-2013
 41
 The Physiocrats
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:39, 38979, S
27-Jun-2013
 42
 Romance of the Three Kingdoms
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:46, 39168, S
04-Jul-2013
 43
 The Invention of Radio Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:41, 39008. S

 2013-2014

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
19-Sep-2013
 1
 Pascal
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:40, 38981, S
26-Sep-2013
 2
 The Mamluks
 Melvyn Bragg
Producer: Victoria Brignell
 41:48, 39106, S
03-Oct-2013
 3
 Exoplanets
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:43, 39035, S
10-Oct-2013
 4
 Galen
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:45, 39063, S
17-Oct-2013
 5
 The Book of Common Prayer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:41, 39003, S
24-Oct-2013
 6
 The Corn Laws
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39091, S
31-Oct-2013
 7
 The Berlin Conference
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:45, 39067, S
07-Nov-2013
 8
 Ordinary Language Philosophy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:38, 38964, S
14-Nov-2013
 9
 The Tempest
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39013, S
21-Nov-2013
 10
 Pocahontas
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:40, 38990, S
28-Nov-2013
 11
 The Microscope
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:50, 39149, S
05-Dec-2013
 12
 Hindu Ideas of Creation
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:39, 38976, S
12-Dec-2013
 13
 Pliny the Younger
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:27, 38789, S
19-Dec-2013 14
Complexity
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39015, S
26-Dec-2013
 15
 The Medici
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 41:45, 39067, S
02-Jan-2014
 16
 Plato's Symposium
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:52, 39175, S
09-Jan-2014
 --
 no programme

16-Jan-2014
 17
 The Battle of Tours
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:45, 39067, S
23-Jan-2014
 18
 Sources of Early Chinese History
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:59, 39281, S
30-Jan-2014
 19
 Catastrophism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:36, 38920, S
06-Feb-2014
 20
 The Phoenicians
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39012, S
13-Feb-2014
 21
 Chivalry
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:59, 39278, S
20-Feb-2014
 22
 Social Darwinism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:26, 38775, S
27-Feb-2014
 23
 The Eye
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:53, 39285, S
06-Mar-2014
 24
 Spartacus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 41:45, 39065, S
13-Mar-2014
 25
 The Trinity
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:54, 39203, S
20-Mar-2014
 26
 Bishop Berkeley
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:44, 39047, S
27-Mar-2014
 27
 Weber's The Protestant Ethic
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:59, 39282, S
03-Apr-2014
 28
 States of Matter
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39028, S
10-Apr-2014
 29
 Strabo's Geographica
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:44, 39044, S
17-Apr-2014
 30
 The Domesday Book
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:42, 39015, S
24-Apr-2014
 31
 Tristram Shandy
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 41:49, 39132, S
01-May-2014
 32
podcast
 The Tale of Sinuhe
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:48, 43850, S
08-May-2014
 33
podcast
 The Sino-Japanese War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:20, 43408, S
15-May-2014
 34
podcast
 Photosynthesis
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:25, 43497, S
22-May-2014
 35
podcast
 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:45, 43810, S
29-May-2014
 36
podcast
 The Talmud
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 47:25, 44429, S
05-Jun-2014
 37
podcast
 The Bluestockings
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:10, 43253, S
12-Jun-2014
 38
podcast
 Robert Boyle
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:16, 43349, S
19-Jun-2014
 39
podcast
 The Philosophy of Solitude
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:45, 43807, S
26-Jun-2014
 40
podcast
 Hildegard of Bingen
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 44:12, 41418, S
03-Jul-2014
 41
podcast
 Mrs Dalloway
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 45:09, 42302, S
10-Jul-2014
 42
podcast
 The Sun
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 47:05, 44108, S
25-Sep-2014
 1
podcast
 e (Euler's Number)
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 44:56, 42106, S
02-Oct-2014
 2
podcast
 Julius Caesar
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:09, 43240, S
09-Oct-2014
 3
podcast
 The Battle of Talas
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 45:02, 42200, S
16-Oct-2014
 4
podcast
 Rudyard Kipling
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall
 45:22, 42517, S
23-Oct-2014
 5
podcast
 The Haitian Revolution
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 46:18, 43388, S
30-Oct-2014
 6
podcast
 Nuclear Fusion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:33, 43615, S
06-Nov-2014
 7
podcast
 Hatshepsut
 Melvyn Bragg
Producer: Victoria Brignell		 45:21, 42483, S
13-Nov-2014
 8
podcast
 Brunel
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 42:12, 41562, S
20-Nov-2014
 9
podcast
 Aesop
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 45:01, 42177, S
27-Nov-2014
 10
podcast
 Kafka's The Trial
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 42:55, 40221, S
04-Dec-2014
 11
podcast
 Zen
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 44:88, 41974, S
11-Dec-2014
 12
podcast
 Behavioural Ecology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 45:13, 42376, S
18-Dec-2014
 13
podcast
 Truth
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell and Luke Mulhall		 41:48, 39183, S
2015
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
15-Jan-2015
 14
podcast
 Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 45:13, 42372, S
22-Jan-2015
 15
podcast
 Phenomenology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Luke Mulhall		 46:12, 43285, S
29-Jan-2015
 16
podcast
 Thucydides
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 45:18, 42446, S
05-Feb-2015
 17
podcast
 Ashoka the Great
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:13, 43311, S
12-Feb-2015
 18
podcast
 The Photon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 44:39, 41846, S
19-Feb-2015
 19
podcast
 The Wealth of Nations
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 45:44, 42857, S
26-Feb-2015
 20
podcast
 The Eunuch
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:19, 43404, S
05-Mar-2015
 21
podcast
 Beowulf
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Thomas Morris		 46:08, 43228, S
12-Mar-2015
 22
podcast
 Dark Matter
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:21, 42502, S
19-Mar-2015
 23
podcast
 Al-Ghazali
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 43:51, 41085, S
26-Mar-2015
 24
podcast
 The Curies
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:01, 44061, S
02-Apr-2015
 25
podcast
 The California Gold Rush
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:32, 42661, S
09-Apr-2015
 26
podcast
 Sappho
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:40, 42795, S
16-Apr-2015
 27
podcast
 Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:03, 42216, S
23-Apr-2015
 28
podcast
 Fanny Burney
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 44:03, 41281, S
30-Apr-2015
 29
podcast
 The Earth's Core
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:20, 43414, S
07-May-2015
 30
podcast
 Tagore
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:14, 43330, S
14-May-2015
 31
podcast
 The Lancashire Cotton Famine
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 44:51, 42034, S
21-May-2015
 32
podcast
 Josephus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:15, 42494, S
28-May-2015
 33
podcast
 The Science of Glass
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:36, 42738, S
04-Jun-2015
 34
podcast
 Prester John
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 44:20, 41575, S
11-Jun-2015
 35
podcast
 Utilitarianism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 43:38, 40915, S
18-Jun-2015
 36
podcast
 Jane Eyre
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:16, 42397, S
25-Jun-2015
 37
podcast
 Extremophiles
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:07, 43198, S
02-Jul-2015
 38
podcast
 Frederick the Great
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:59, 44942, S
09-Jul-2015
 39
podcast
 Frida Kahlo
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:16, 42408, S
24-Sep-2015
 1
podcast
 Perpetual Motion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:19, 42446, S
01-Oct-2015
 2
podcast
 Alexander the Great
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:52, 43890, S
08-Oct-2015
no programme

15-Oct-2015
 3
podcast
 Holbein at the Tudor Court
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:10, 43237, S
22-Oct-2015
 4
podcast
 Simone de Beauvoir
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:39, 42761, S
29-Oct-2015
 5
podcast
 The Empire of Mali
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:26, 44417, S
05-Nov-2015
 6
podcast
 P v NP
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:24, 42521, S
12-Nov-2015
 7
podcast
 The Battle of Lepanto
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:57, 44911, S
19-Nov-2015
 8
podcast
 Emma
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:07, 44128, S
26-Nov-2015
 9
podcast
 The Salem Witch Trials
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:07, 42255, S
03-Dec-2015
 10
podcast
 James Cook
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:55, 43940, S
10-Dec-2015
 11
podcast
 Chinese Legalism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:06, 42200, S
17-Dec-2015
 12
podcast
 Circadian Rhythms
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:44, 44657, S
24-Dec-2015
 13
podcast
 Michael Faraday
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 45:31, 42575, S
31-Dec-2015
 14
 Tristan and Iseult
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 44:51, 41963, S
2016-2017
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
07-Jan-2016
no program

14-Jan-2016
 15
 Saturn
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:34, 43577, S
21-Jan-2016
 16
 Thomas Paine's Common Sense
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:19, 42399, S
28-Jan-2016
 17
 Eleanor of Aquitaine
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 44:28, 41603, S
04-Feb-2016
 18
 Chromatography
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:53, 43862, S
11-Feb-2016
 19
 Rumi's Poetry
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:59, 39277, S
18-Feb-2016
 20
 Robert Hooke
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:51, 44763, S
25-Feb-2016
 21
 Mary Magdalene
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 41:55, 39219, S
03-Mar-2016
 22
 The Dutch East India Company
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:37, 38929, S
10-Mar-2016
 23
 The Maya Civilization
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:12, 43227, S
17-Mar-2016
 24
 Bedlam
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:36, 43596, S
24-Mar-2016
 25
 Aurora Leigh
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:37, 28943, S
31-Mar-2016
 26
 Agrippina the Younger
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 41:50, 39148, S
07-Apr-2016
 27
 The Sikh Empire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 44:36, 41724, S
14-Apr-2016
 28
 The Neutron Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:40, 38982, S
21-Apr-2016
 29
 1816, the Year Without a Summer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:11, 42279, S
28-Apr-2016
 30
 Euclid's Elements
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:16, 42348, S
05-May-2016
 31
 Tess of the d'Urbervilles
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:23, 43398, S
12-May-2016
 32
 Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:35, 38916, S
19-May-2016
 33
 The Muses
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:45, 39069, S
26-May-2016
 34
 The Gettysburg Address
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 48:35, 45459, S
02-Jun-2016
 35
 Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:33, 38874, S
09-Jun-2016
 36
 Penicillin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:33, 38879, S
16-Jun-2016
 37
 The Bronze Age Collapse
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:40, 38990, S
23-Jun-2016
 38
 Songs of Innocence and of Experience
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:47, 39102, S
30-Jun-2016
 39
 Sovereignty
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:00, 43974, S
07-Jul-2016
 40
 The Invention of Photography
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:40, 38981, S
22-Sep-2016
 1
 Zeno's Paradoxes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:09, 43183, S
29-Sep-2016
 2
 Animal Farm
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:53, 39187, S
06-Oct-2016
 3
 Lakshmi
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:48, 43784, S
13-Oct-2016
 4
 Plasma
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:32, 42605, S
20-Oct-2016
 5
 The 12th Century Renaissance
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 49:02, 45881, S
27-OCt-2016
 6
 John Dalton
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 45:19, 42448, S
03-Nov-2016
 7
 Epic of Gilgamesh
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:38, 39002, S
10-Nov-2016
 8
 The Fighting Temeraire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 45:36, 42667, S
17-Nov-2016
 9
 Justinian's Legal Code
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:41, 39009, S
24-Nov-2016
 10
 Baltic Crusades
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:29, 43494, S
01-Dec-2016
 11
 Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:44, 39052, S
08-Dec-2016
 12
 Harriet Martineau
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 49:42, 46505, S
15-Dec-2016
 13
 The Gin Craze
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 51:43, 48392, S
22-Dec-2016
 14
 Four Quartets
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:35, 38999, S
29-Dec-2016
 15
 Johannes Kepler
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 48:20, 45220, S
05-Jan-2017
 --
 no programme

12-Jan-2017
 16
 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:17, 38624, S
19-Jan-2017
 17
 Mary, Queen of Scots
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 51:55, 48575, S
26-Jan-2017
 18
 Parasitism
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:51, 39156, S
02-Feb-2017
 19
 Hannah Arendt
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:31, 38840, S
09-Feb-2017
 20
 John Clare
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:51, 44762, S
16-Feb-2017
 21
 Maths in the Early Islamic World
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 48:42, 45565, S
23-Feb-2017
 22
 Seneca the Younger
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:47, 39097, S
02-Mar-2017
 23
 The Kuiper Belt
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:30, 38826, S
09-Mar-2017
 24
 North and South
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 47:37, 44542, S
16-Mar-2017
 25
 The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:54, 39204, S
23-Mar-2017
 26
 The Battle of Salamis
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 49:59, 46770, S
30-Mar-2017
 27
 Hokusai
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:34, 38893, S
06-Apr-2017
 28
 Pauli's Exclusion Principle
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:39, 38972, S
13-Apr-2017
 29
 Rosa Luxemburg
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 49:46, 46563, S
20-Apr-2017
 30
 Roger Bacon
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell		 41:44, 39045, S
27-Apr-2017
 31
 The Egyptian Book of the Dead
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 46:10, 43411, S
04-May-2017
 32
 The Battle of Lincoln 1217
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:53, 39189, S
11-May-2017
 33
 Emily Dickinson
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:37, 38936, S
18-May-2017
 34
 Louis Pasteur
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:48, 39114, S
25-May-2017
 35
 Purgatory
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:32, 38865, S
01-Jun-2017
 36
 Enzymes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:36, 38916, S
08-Jun-2017
 37
 Christine de Pizan
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:31, 38848, S
15-Jun-2017
 38
 The American Populists
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:46, 39081, S
22-Jun-2017
 39
 Eugene Onegin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:37, 38933, S
29-Jun-2017
 40
 Plato's Republic
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:38, 38962, S
06-Jul-2017
 41
 Bird Migration
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:38, 38953, S
21-Sep-2017
 1 Kant's Categorical Imperative
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 49:05, 46142, S
28-Sep-2017
 2
 Wuthering Heights
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:30, 38823, S
05-Oct-2017
 3
 Constantine the Great
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:40, 38979, S
12-Oct-2017
 4
 Aphra Behn
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:38, 38960, S
19-Oct-2017
 5
 The Congress of Vienna
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:40, 38983, S
26-Oct-2017
 6
 Feathered Dinosaurs
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:44, 39055, S
02-Nov-2017
 7
 Picasso's Guernica
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:36, 38926, S
09-Nov-2017
 8
 The Picts
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:49, 39310, S
16-Nov-2017
 9
 Germaine de Stael
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:16, 38617, S
23-Nov-2017
 10
 Thebes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:28, 38801, S
30-Nov-2017
 11
 Carl Friedrich Gauss
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:40, 38990, S
07-Dec-2017
 12
 Moby Dick
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:42, 39016, S
14-Dec-2017
 13
 Thomas Becket
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 41:46, 39078, S
21-Dec-2017
 14
 Beethoven
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 49:13, 46270, S
28-Dec-2017
 15
 Hamlet
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 51:32, 48440, S
04-Jan-2018
 --
 no programme

11-Jan-2018
 16
 The Siege of Malta, 1565
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:08, 46193, S
18-Jan-2018
 17
 Anna Akhmatova
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 48:00, 45127, S
25-Jan-2018
 18
 Cicero
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 48:32, 45626, S
01-Feb-2018
 19
 Cephalopods
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 46:35, 43799, S
08-Feb-2018
 20
 Frederick Douglass
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 51:08, 48064, S
15-Feb-2018
 21
 Fungi
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell
 47:23, 44548, S
22-Feb-2018
 22
 Rosalind Franklin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Victoria Brignell
 48:57, 46020, S
01-Mar-2018
 23
 Sun Tzu and The Art of War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 47:34, 44727, S
08-Mar-2018
 24
 The Highland Clearances
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 50:28, 47438, S
15-Mar-2018
 25
 Augustine's Confessions
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 47:08, 44314, S
22-Mar-2018
 26
 Tocqueville: Democracy in America
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 50:13, 47210, S
29-Mar-2018
repeat of
26-Jun-2014
 --
 Hildegard of Bingen
repeat, no
broadcast,
pre-empted
05-Apr-2018
 27
 Roman Slavery
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:47, 46804, S
12-Apr-2018
 28
 George and Robert Stephenson
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:24, 46446, S
19-Apr-2018
 29
 Middlemarch
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 50:57, 47892, S
26-Apr-2018
 30
 The Proton
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 48:19, 45204, S
03-May-2018
 31
 The Almoravid Empire
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 48:47, 45866, S
10-May-2018
 32
 The Mabinogion
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 47:47, 44710, S
17-May-2018
 33
 The Emancipation of the Serfs

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:19, 46141, S
24-May-2018
 34
 Margaret of Anjou

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:42, 46489, S
31-May-2018
 35
 Henrik Ibsen
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:22, 46190, S
07-Jun-2018
 36
 Persepolis
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 50:33, 47293, S
14-Jun-2018
 37
 Montesquieu
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:36, 46397, S
21-Jun-2018
 38
 Echolocation
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:59, 46760, S
28-Jun-2018
 39
 The Mexican-American War
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 48:03, 44956, S
05-Jul-2018
 40
 William Morris
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 52:17, 48911, S
 2018-2019
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
13-Sep-2018
 25-1
 The Iliad
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:51, 39237, S
20-Sep-2018
 25-2
 Automata
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:51, 39235, S
27-Sep-2018
 25-3
 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:51, 39243, S
04-Oct-2018
 25-4
 Edith Wharton
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:52, 39260, S
11-Oct-2018
 25-5
 Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 51:35, 48367, S
18-Oct-2018
 25-6
 Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:37, 39029, S
25-Oct-2018
 25-7
 The Fable of the Bees
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:45, 39143, S
01-Nov-2018
 25-8
 Free Radicals
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:44, 39132, S
08-Nov-2018
 25-9
 Marie Antoinette
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:51, 39246, S
15-Nov-2018
 25-10
 Horace
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:03, 38498, S
22-Nov-2018
 25-11
 Hope
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:53, 39267, S
29-Nov-2018
 25-12
 The Long March

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:50, 39229, S
06-Dec-2018
 25-13
 The Thirty Years War

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:47, 39187, S
13-Dec-2018
 25-14
 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 51:57, 48718, S
20-Dec-2018
 25-15
 The Poor Laws

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:01, 38464, S
27-Dec-2018
 25-16
 Venus
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:47, 39186, S
03-Jan-2019
no program

10-Jan-2019
 25-17
 Papal Infallibility

 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:02, 38472, S
17-Jan-2019
 25-18
 Samuel Beckett
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 40:48, 38265, S
24-Jan-2019
 25-19
 Emmy Noether
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:28, 38878, S
31-Jan-2019 25-20
 Owain Glyndwr
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson		 48:55, 45864, S
07-Feb-2019
 25-21
 Aristotle's Biology
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:49, 39212, S
14-Feb-2019
 25-22
 Judith beheading Holofernes
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 49:38, 46538, S
21-Feb-2019
 25-23
 Pheromones
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:52, 39265, S
28-Feb-2019
 25 -24
 Antarah ibn Shaddad
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:17, 38719, S
07-Mar-2019
 25-25
 William Cecil
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:43, 39120, S
14-Mar-2019
 25-26
 Authenticity
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 50:41, 47527, S
21-Mar-2019
 25-27
 Gerard Manley Hopkins
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 40:45, 38218, S
28-Mar-2019
 25-28
 The Danelaw
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 50:15, 47111, S
04-Apr-2019
 25-29
 The Great Irish Famine
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 57:28, 53878, S
11-Apr-2019
 25-30
 The Evolution of Teeth
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:45, 39142, S
18-Apr-2019
 25-31
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:53, 3926 9, S
25-Apr-2019
 25-32
 Nero
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 51:32, 48316, S
02-May-2019
 25-33
 The Gordon Riots
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:40, 39075, S
09-May-2019
 25-34
 Bergson and Time
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:51, 39242, S
16-May-2019
 25-35
 Frankenstein
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 55:17, 51839, S
23-May-2019
 25-36
 Kinetic Theory
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 51:46, 48539, S
30-May-2019
 25-37
 President Ulysses S Grant
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:53, 39269, S
06-Jun-2019
 25-38
 Sir Thomas Browne
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 52:52, 49571, S
13-Jun-2019
 25-39
 The Inca
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:19, 38741, S
20-Jun-2019
 25-40
 The Mytilenaean Debate
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 54:36, 51200, S
27-Jun-2019
 25-41
 Doggerland
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:32, 38954, S
04-Jul-2019
 25-42
 Lorca
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 53:32, 50196, S
19-Sep-2019
 26-1
 Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:48, 39194, S
26-Sep-2019
 26-2
 The Rapture
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:49, 39216, S
03-Oct-2019
 26-3
 Dorothy Hodgkin
 Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson
 41:34, 38969, S