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 * Abelard and Heloise - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris
 * Alexander Pope - 'short is my date, but deathless my renown'
 * Alexander von Humboldt - the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist
 * Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it?
 * Anaesthetics - from ether frolics to pain-free surgery
 * Anarchism - a question of authority?
 * Antimatter - where has it all gone?
 * Archaeology and Imperialism
 * Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments
 * Asteroids - celestial bodies from the beginning of time
 * Astronomy and Empire - the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery
 * Averroes - the battle between faith and reason
 * Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
 * Beauty - the philosophy of beauty
 * Bismarck - the Iron Chancellor
 * Borges - the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer
 * Carbon - the basis of life
 * Catherine the Great - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia
 * Christopher Marlowe
 * Common Sense Philosophy - "There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"
 * Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy
 * Divine Right of Kings - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"
 * Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel
 * Epistolary Literature - great novels of fictional letters
 * Faeries - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans
 * Field of the Cloth of Gold - a Renaissance entente cordiale
 * Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions
 * Galaxies - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter
 * Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life
 * Genghis Khan - founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires
 * Geoffrey Chaucer - the first Great English Poet
 * Goethe - formation of a German cultural icon
 * Gravitational Waves - a new window on the universe
 * Greek Comedy - sing as you revel and rout
 * Guilt - what is it good for?
 * Heart of Darkness - one of the most influential novels of the 20th century
 * Hell - its representation through the ages
 * Human Evolution - from early hominids to Homo sapiens
 * Indian Maths - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number
 * John Stuart Mill - one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century
 * Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
 * Karl Popper - his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science
 * King Alfred and the Battle of Edington
 * Magnetism - an attractive history
 * Mars - the search for life on the Red Planet
 * Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition
 * Merlin
 * Microbiology - the story of the invisible masters of the universe
 * Negative numbers - how they spread across civilizations
 * Ockham's Razor - cutting medieval philosophy down to size
 * Pastoral Literature - the romantic idealisation of the countryside
 * Perception and the Senses - how do we see what we see?
 * Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
 * Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics
 * Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
 * Renaissance Astrology - 'we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them'
 * Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics?
 * Renaissance Paganism
 * Samuel Johnson and his Circle
 * Seventeenth Century Print Culture - piety, populism and political protest
 * Siegfried Sassoon - the poet who survived
 * Socrates - the man and the myth
 * Symmetry - the pattern at the heart of our physical world
 * Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain
 * The Abbasid Caliphs - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world.
 * The Aeneid
 * The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling
 * The Carolingian Renaissance - the revival of early medieval Western Europe
 * The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church
 * The Discovery of Oxygen - feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry
 * The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
 * The Four Humours - yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm in the original theory of everything
 * The Great Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world
 * The Heart - its anatomical and cultural history
 * The History of Optics - from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world
 * The Jesuits - the school masters of Europe
 * The KT Boundary - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away?
 * The Needham Question - did China lay the foundations of modern science?
 * The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
 * The Oath - guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world
 * The Oxford Movement - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century
 * The Peasants' Revolt - a lasting legacy for popular uprising?
 * The Permian-Triassic Boundary - when 95% of life was killed off
 * The Pilgrim Fathers - the original American dream
 * The Poincare Conjecture - how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe
 * The Prelude - the greatest poem in the English language?
 * The Rise of the Mammals - life in a cold climate
 * The Royal Society - the first club for experimental science
 * The Sassanian Empire - in the shadow of Ancient Persia
 * The Search for Immunisation - and the battle against smallpox
 * The Siege of Constantinople - the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire
 * The Siege of Orleans - did Joan of Arc really rescue France?
 * The Spanish Inquisition - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history
 * The Speed of Light - a cosmic speed limit?
 * The Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France
 * Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'
 * Uncle Tom's Cabin - the novel that started the American Civil War
 * Victorian Pessimism - fear and loathing in the late 19th century