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In Our Time
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Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the history of ideas. Thursday 9.00-9.45am, repeated 9.30pm.
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The Ediacara Biota - the first animals?
Logical Positivism - or is it?
The Sunni-Shia Split: after Muhammad
Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy - theatre of blood
The Augustan Age - art and propaganda at the birth of the Roman Empire
The Trial of Charles I - the original courtroom drama
St Paul - the first Christian
The Whale: A History
The Siege of Vienna - a clash of civilisations?
Magna Carta - foundation of law or rich man's charter?
The Vacuum of Space - a programme about nothing?
The Building of St Petersburg - "a window through which Russia looks on Europe"
Suffragism - the long march towards votes for women
Brave New World - would Soma, free love and the feelies be so bad?
Baconian Science - Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science
The School of Athens - picturing Greece in Renaissance minds
The Boxer Rebellion - "Kill all Foreigners!"
The Library of Alexandria - of all the books in all the world...
The Measurement Problem in Physics - Man is not the measure of all things
The Waste Land and Modernity - "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
The Observatory at Jaipur - Indian astronomy on the cusp of colonialism
The Destruction of Carthage - "Delenda Carthago!"
The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm - but not as we know them
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - 18th century satire gets close to the bone
Darwin - his life and achievements
A History of History - how the writing of history has evolved
Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness
The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius
The Physics of Time - does time even exist?
The Great Fire of London - London's burning, fetch the engines...
Heat: A History - from fire to thermodynamics
The Great Reform Act: reform - but was it great?
The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe
Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind?
Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society?
Simón Bolívar - the liberator of Spanish America
Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back
Vitalism - the spark of life
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems - the dirty secrets of maths
The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic
Miracles - will they never cease?
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