In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
Episodes to download
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Alcuin
Last Thursday
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
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Solar Wind
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
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The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
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Catullus
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
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Tutankhamun
Boxing Day 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
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Auden
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
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Li Shizhen
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
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Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Crime and Punishment
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
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The Treaty of Limerick
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
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Hybrids
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
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Robert Burns
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
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The Time Machine
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
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Rousseau on Education
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The Rapture
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
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Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
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Picasso's Guernica (Summer Repeat)
Thu 5 Sep 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work
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Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity
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Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat)
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Hope (Summer Repeat)
Thu 8 Aug 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
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Venus (Summer Repeat)
Thu 1 Aug 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
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Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)
Thu 25 Jul 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age
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Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat)
Thu 18 Jul 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery
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Echolocation (Summer Repeat)
Thu 11 Jul 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
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Lorca
Thu 4 Jul 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.


