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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
The Fighting Temeraire (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's painting The Fighting Temeraire.
Utilitarianism (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
The Lancashire Cotton Famine (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Lancashire Cotton Famine
Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards
1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Paul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
The Evolution of Horses
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
The Valladolid Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.