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Longitude
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
The Second Barons' War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces
Ovid
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
The Franco-American Alliance 1778
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
Arianism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
The Russo-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
David Ricardo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
The Bacchae
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
The Late Devonian Extinction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
