How the invisible hand of the clock powered the Industrial Revolution and sparked the Information Age.

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the …

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.

“Stories are a meal. But poetry is a glass of water, perhaps even a single drop that will save your life.”

“I’ve read the books many times to my own children, astonished at how much is in them for my grown-up self — about that growing-up process, and about the times I grew up in, too.”