Big questions and theories explained in under 2 minutes from A History of Ideas on BBC Radio 4. Animations voiced by Harry Shearer, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Fry and Aidan Turner. Scripted by Nigel Warburton. This project is made in collaboration with The Open University and the animations were created by Cognitive.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Rewiring the Brain | 2015-01-27 | ||
| The Fourth Revolution | 2015-01-28 | ||
| The Medium Is The Message | 2015-01-29 | ||
| The Antikythera Mechanism | 2015-01-30 | ||
| Aristotle on 'Flourishing' | 2015-03-31 | ||
| Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic | 2015-04-01 | ||
| Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths | 2015-04-02 | ||
| Ayn Rand on Selfishness | 2015-04-02 | ||
| Lex Talionis and Retribution | 2015-04-07 | ||
| The Veil Of Ignorance | 2015-04-08 | ||
| Civil Disobedience | 2015-04-09 | ||
| Habeas Corpus | 2015-04-10 | ||
| Know Thyself | 2015-04-14 | ||
| Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Choice | 2015-04-15 | ||
| Erving Goffman and The Performed Self | 2015-04-16 | ||
| Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am” | 2015-04-17 | ||
| John Locke on Toleration | 0001-01-01 | ||
| The Invisible Hand | 2015-07-29 | ||
| Plato's Philosopher Kings | 2015-07-30 | ||
| Confucian Ancestor Worship | 2015-07-31 |