In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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Antigone
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
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Charisma
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
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Seismology
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.
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In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
Fri 4 Mar 2022
New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.
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The Arthashastra
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.
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Peter Kropotkin
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid
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Romeo and Juliet
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
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Walter Benjamin
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
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The Temperance Movement
Thu 3 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
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Colette
Thu 27 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
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The Gold Standard
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
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Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
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Fritz Lang
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
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The Hittites
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.
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A Christmas Carol
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
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The May Fourth Movement
Thu 9 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
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The Battle of Trafalgar
Thu 2 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.
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Plato's Gorgias
Thu 25 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's exploration of the nature of power and freedom.
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The Decadent Movement
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
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William and Caroline Herschel
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
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The Song of Roland
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.
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Corals
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
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Iris Murdoch
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.
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The Manhattan Project
Thu 7 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
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Herodotus
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
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The Evolution of Crocodiles
Thu 16 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Edward Gibbon
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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