Faith And Philosophical Analysis: The Impact of Analytical Philosophy on the Philosophy of Religion (Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion ... Philosophy, Religion & Theology)
BBC (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and Angie Hobbs discuss Sparta, the militaristic Ancient Greek city-state, and the political ideas it spawned.
BBC (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Melvyn Bragg discuss the history of the discovery of radiation, from the idea that light consisted of waves, through electromagnetism, to the naming of gamma rays. With Jim Al-Khalili, Frank James and Frank Close
BBC (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Siege of Münster in 1534-35, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific consequences. With Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen,and Lucy Wooding.
BBC (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Siege of Münster in 1534-35, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific consequences. With Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen,and Lucy Wooding.
BBC (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Melvyn Bragg is joined by A.C. Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and Christopher Janaway to discuss the dark, pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which set the tone for much twentieth century thought
BBC (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and Sanjeev Gupta to discuss the geological formation of Britain.
BBC (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Melvyn Bragg is joined by John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen Hackett to discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I, and its impact on how Britain was ruled.
BBC (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and Robert Tombs to discuss the Dreyfus Affair - the 1890s scandal which split France for a generation.
BBC (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson and Kate Spence to discuss Akhenaten, the ruler who brought revolutionary change to ancient Egypt.
BBC (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer and Jackie Stedall to discuss the epic battle between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
BBC (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses Thomas Aquinas, the 13th Century saint, theologian and philosopher whose ideas remain at the heart of the Catholic Church today. A rebel and radical, he transformed the orthodoxy of the medieval church, by bringing faith and reason together. With John Haldane, Annabel Brett and Martin Palmer
BBC (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Ediacara Biota - the Precambrian beings that some consider the first complex multicellular life forms - and whose discovery proved Darwin right in a way he never imagined. With Richard Corfield, Martin Brasier and Rachel Wood
BBC (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Ediacara Biota - the Precambrian beings that some consider the first complex multicellular life forms - and whose discovery proved Darwin right in a way he never imagined. With Richard Corfield, Martin Brasier and Rachel Wood
BBC (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses Logical Positivism, the radical early twentieth century philosophy movement which began in ‘Red’ Vienna and rejected much of past philosophy as not just false but meaningless. With Barry Smith, Nancy Cartwright and Thomas Uebel
BBC (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the theological split between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims, and how it began with a dispute about how the successor to the Prophet Muhammad should be chosen with Amira Benniston, Hugh Kennedy and Robert Gleave.
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