BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76