Fritz Lang (Summer Repeat)
Fritz Lang (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-born film director Fritz Lang (1890-1976), who was one of the most celebrat... Read more
10 Aug 2023
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55mins
Corals (Summer Repeat)
Corals (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which informed Charles Darwin's first book, The Structure and Distrib... Read more
3 Aug 2023
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51mins
Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and it’s hard to imagine a world more alien and different from Earth.... Read more
27 Jul 2023
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53mins
Elizabeth Anscombe
Elizabeth Anscombe
In 1956 Oxford University awarded an honorary degree to the former US president Harry S. Truman for his role in ending t... Read more
20 Jul 2023
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54mins
Death in Venice
Death in Venice
Death in Venice is Thomas Mann’s most famous – and infamous - novella.Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repr... Read more
13 Jul 2023
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48mins
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex begins with a warning: the murderer of the old king of Thebes, Laius, has never been identif... Read more
6 Jul 2023
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54mins
Mitochondria
Mitochondria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth. Inside each cell of every com... Read more
29 Jun 2023
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52mins
Louis XIV: The Sun King
Louis XIV: The Sun King
In 1661 the 23 year-old French king Louis the XIV had been on the throne for 18 years when his chief minister, Cardinal ... Read more
22 Jun 2023
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47mins
Virgil's Georgics
Virgil's Georgics
In the year 29 BC the great Roman poet Virgil published these lines: Blessed is he who has succeeded in learning the la... Read more
15 Jun 2023
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49mins
The Shimabara Rebellion
The Shimabara Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Christian uprising in Japan and its profound and long-term consequences. In the 1630... Read more
8 Jun 2023
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48mins