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  3. In Our Time

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas

Programmes:
on BBC iPlayer (442)
coming up (6)
Previous programmes:
by series (2)
by year (453)

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    In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science Episode 2

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    Available since yesterday.

    2/4. How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.

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    1. In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science Episode 1

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      Available since Monday.

      1/4. Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.

    2. Mary Wollstonecraft

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      Available since Monday.

      Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.

    3. The Samurai

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      Available since Thu, 24 Dec 2009.

      Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and myth of the Samurai.

    4. Pythagoras

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      Available since Thu, 10 Dec 2009.

      Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.

See all 442 programmes available now.

Coming up

Today, 09:00 on Radio 4 FM

In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science Episode 3

3/4. The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.

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