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Marie Antoinette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
Free Radicals
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
The Fable of the Bees
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
Automata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
The Iliad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
William Morris
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
