Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg fronts The Written World, a BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history....

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 pivotal concepts, theorists and developments that have advanced the science of mathematics....

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artists....

A major 60-part BBC radio series exploring the questions that have preoccupied philosophers through the ages, presented by Melvyn Bragg....

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of physics through its most important ideas and hypotheses....

Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political, and personal revolution....

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cosmos, from the origins of the universe to dark matter and dark energy....

Melvyn Bragg and guests chart the development of Christian thought, looking at 25 fundamental concepts that emerged throughout history....

In the spring of 1946, ex-corporal Sam Richardson returns home from the "forgotten war" in Burma to his hometown of Wigton in Cumbria, England....

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world....

A Time to Dance charts the consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18....

Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives....

In the seventh century, at the dawn of Christianity, Bega, a bewitching Irish princess bestowed with miraculous powers, and Padric, a charismatic British prince gifted with the fiery power of the sword...

At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful....

After the Second World War, many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had anticipated....

Melvyn Bragg and guests analyse 25 key poets and literary works, tracing the evolution of poetry over 550 years....

Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language, from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

The King James Bible has often been called ‘the Book of Books’ both in itself and in what it stands for....

Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor....