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Marguerite de Navarre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
The Barbary Corsairs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.
Germinal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
Julian of Norwich
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
The Federalist Papers
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
Plankton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
The Seventh Seal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
