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The Vienna Secession
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.

Hypnosis
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.

Paul von Hindenburg
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.

Copyright
The evolution of copyright.

Lise Meitner
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.

The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.

惭辞濒颈猫谤别
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

Typology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.

The Battle of Clontarf
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

The Gracchi
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.