As part of Radio 4's Victoria Season, science aficionado Melvyn Bragg (pictured) explores the links between imperialist expansion in the 19th century and the development of scientific methods and ...

Melvyn Bragg examines the lives, work and legacy of two men whose ideas have had tremendous consequences both in their own time and down the centuries: John Ball and Thomas Paine.

Melvyn Bragg was made a life peer in 1998. He is a prolific writer and has published over twenty novels, the latest of which, Remember Me, was published in 2008.

Presenter Melvyn Bragg In this special edition of Routes of ... indeed Nancy Mitford was lucky to escape with her life following her lectures delivered in the Mitford way. The acme of aristocracy ...