In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Thursday
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
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Pheromones
Thu 21 Feb 2019
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
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Judith beheading Holofernes
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
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Aristotle's Biology
Thu 7 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
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Owain Glyndwr
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century
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Emmy Noether
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
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Samuel Beckett
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
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Papal Infallibility
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
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Venus
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
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The Poor Laws
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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The Thirty Years War
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
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The Long March
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
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Hope
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
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Horace
Thu 15 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
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Marie Antoinette
Thu 8 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
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Free Radicals
Thu 1 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
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The Fable of the Bees
Thu 25 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
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Edith Wharton
Thu 4 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
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Automata
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
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The Iliad
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
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Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat)
Thu 6 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
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Robert Hooke (Summer Repeat)
Thu 30 Aug 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Robert Hooke
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Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Summer Repeat)
Thu 23 Aug 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
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The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat)
Thu 9 Aug 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th Century
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The 12th Century Renaissance (Summer Repeat)
Thu 2 Aug 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in Western Europe
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