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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds in the world. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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| "I'm fascinated by the fact that we live in a time when so many people are doing fantastic work, and thinking in areas which it's not remotely possible for me to keep up with & and these people are prepared to talk about it. They're prepared to come on In Our Time and other programmes on Radio 4 and try and talk to the rest of us ..." |
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THE CALENDAR
The calendar literally shapes the lives of millions of people.
It is an invention that gives meaning to the passing of time and orders our daily existence. It links us to the arcane movements of the heavens and the natural rhythms of the earth.
It is both deeply practical and profoundly sacred.
But where does this strange and complex creation come from? Why does the week last seven days but the year twelve months? Who named these concepts and through them shaped our lives so absolutely?
The answers involve Babylonian Astronomers and Hebrew Theologians, Roman Emperors and Catholic Popes.
If the calendar is a house built on the shifting sands of time it has had many architects.
Guests
Robert Poole
Reader in History at St Martin’s College Lancaster and author of Time’s Alteration, Calendar Reform in Early Modern England
Kristen Lippincott
Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
Peter Watson
Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University and author of A Terrible Beauty – A History of the People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind
Next Week
This is the last in the current series of In Our Time. A new series will begin on 6th February 2002.the last In Our Time until Feb. 6th
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