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The Knights Templar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
The Electron
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
Plato's Atlantis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
John Bull
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
Angkor Wat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
Dylan Thomas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
The Death of Stars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
Hegel's Philosophy of History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
Comenius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
