Diarmaid MacCulloch
Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford
11 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Kate Fleet, Charlotte Methuen
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William Cecil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of the 1st Baron Burghley, Elizabeth I's powerful Secretary of State who advanced England's interests throughout her reign
7 March 2019
Also featuring: Susan Doran, John Guy
The Siege of Malta, 1565
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fierce contest for Malta, which the Ottomans tried to prise from the Knights Hospitaller who they they had already driven from Rhodes in 1522.
11 January 2018
Also featuring: Helen Nicholson, Kate Fleet
The Battle of Lepanto
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the sea battle of Lepanto, in which the Christian forces of the Holy League defeated the Ottoman fleet of Selim II in 1571.
12 November 2015
Also featuring: Kate Fleet, Noel Malcolm
The Book of Common Prayer
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer, published after the Reformation in order to make church liturgy available in English.
17 October 2013
Also featuring: Alexandra Walsham, Martin Palmer
Erasmus
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Dutch humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus, one of the most significant figures of the Renaissance.
9 February 2012
Also featuring: Eamon Duffy, Jill Kraye
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the celebrated sixteenth-century account of the suffering of Christian martyrs.
18 November 2010
Also featuring: Justin Champion, Elizabeth Evenden
Calvinism
Melvyn Bragg and guests Justin Champion, Susan Hardman Moore and Diarmaid MacCulloch explore the ideas of John Calvin and their impact.
25 February 2010
Also featuring: Justin Champion, Susan Hardman Moore
The Siege of Munster
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific consequences.
5 November 2009
Also featuring: Charlotte Methuen, Lucy Wooding
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Was Henry’s policy an act of grand larceny or the pious destruction of a corrupt institution?
27 March 2008
Also featuring: Diane Purkiss, George Bernard
The Diet of Worms
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Diet of Worms where the Holy Roman Emperor demanded Martin Luther explain his attacks on the Catholic Church. The ensuing arguments helped trigger the Reformation.
12 October 2006
Also featuring: David Bagchi, Charlotte Methuen
St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Melvyn Bragg discusses the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572 when the River Seine ran red with Protestant blood.
27 November 2003
Also featuring: Mark Greengrass, Penny Roberts