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Little Women

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

Robert Graves

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.

The Haymarket Affair

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

Wormholes

Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.

Benjamin Disraeli

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.

Bacteriophages

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

Monet in England

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.

Karma

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.

Fielding's Tom Jones

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.

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