Browse the 16th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myth of Faustus and temptation by evil.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.
Melvyn Bragg examines the life of glittering Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare.
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the enigma of the life of William Shakespeare
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare’s work that makes it universal.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Spanish Armada.
Melvyn Bragg examines the creation, power and legacy of the Aztec Empire.
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, “the school masters of Europe”.
Melvyn Bragg examines British imperialism and its captives, both slaves and Britons.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events that helped trigger the European Reformation.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Tudor conspicuous consumption.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the re-shaping of England as a modern state by the Tudor dynasty.
The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.
