In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
Episodes to download
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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Thursday
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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Four Quartets (Summer Repeat)
Thu 26 Jul 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work
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The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat)
Thu 19 Jul 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the liquid qualities of brittle glass
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Jane Eyre (Summer Repeat)
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Charlotte Brontë's story of Jane Eyre, governess, and Mr Rochester, master of Thornfield
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William Morris
Thu 5 Jul 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
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The Mexican-American War
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
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Echolocation
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
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Montesquieu
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
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Persepolis
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.
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Henrik Ibsen
Thu 31 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
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Margaret of Anjou
Thu 24 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses
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The Emancipation of the Serfs
Thu 17 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.
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The Mabinogion
Thu 10 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.
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The Almoravid Empire
Thu 3 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.
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The Proton
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
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Middlemarch
Thu 19 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
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George and Robert Stephenson
Thu 12 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
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Roman Slavery
Thu 5 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.
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Hildegard of Bingen (Repeat)
Thu 29 Mar 2018
With no new programme scheduled today, here's Hildegard of Bingen (Rpt)
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Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Thu 22 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.
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