BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

The Mexican-American War

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.