BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

Middlemarch

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.