In Our Time Episodes

    Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)

    Edith Wharton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler

    Automata

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.

    The Iliad

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.

    Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

    Robert Hooke (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Robert Hooke

    Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.

    Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our body clocks

    The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th Century

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