Spain
5 episodes
Catherine of Aragon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Infanta so prized by the Tudors that, after her first husband the Prince of Wales died, she went on to marry his brother Henry VIII.
13 February 2025
Featuring: Lucy Wooding, Maria Hayward, Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer
Muslim Spain
Melvyn Bragg discusses Muslim Spain, a culture that lasted 700 years, from Cordoba’s golden age to the fall of Granada.
21 November 2002
Featuring: Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, Mehri Niknam
The Spanish Armada
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Spanish Armada, the fleet which attempted to invade Elizabethan England in 1588.
7 October 2010
Featuring: Diane Purkiss, Maria Jose Rodriguez-Salgado, Nicholas Rodger
The Spanish Civil War
Melvyn Bragg discusses the causes, events and repercussions of the Spanish Civil War, which became an international battleground for the forces of Fascism and Communism as Europe geared up for war.
3 April 2003
Featuring: Paul Preston, Helen Graham, Mary Vincent
The Spanish Inquisition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Inquisition, whose defense of medieval orthodoxy is a story of heresy, torture, courage, imprisonment, exile and death.
22 June 2006
Featuring: John Edwards, Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert
