Peter Kropotkin

Misha Glenny and guests discuss a familiar feature of our beaches: seashells, from their astonishing shapes and patterns that teach us about Earth’s oceans, to the ways that humans have treasured shells throughout history. Seashells appear in the mythologies of countless cultures ...  Show more

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the French portrait painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755 - 1842). From her teens she delighted her high society subjects in and around Paris, notably Marie Antoinette who she painted around 30 times, and she invariably found ways to show her sitte ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Russian prince who became a leading anarchist and famous scientist. Kropotkin (1842 - 1921) was born into privilege, very much in the highest circle of Russian society as a pageboy for the Tsar, before he became a republican in childhood and dr ...  Show more

Margaret talks to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild. https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/ https://theanarchis ...  Show more

Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild. Sources: https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change ...  Show more

Rasputin’s story is a familiar one – an illiterate Siberian peasant who managed to secure the confidence of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, while indulging his legendary sexual appetite and love of hard drinking. Rasputin was so revered by his acolytes that they would collec ...  Show more