In Our Time
Alan Turing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
- 53 mins
- 15 Oct 2020
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In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
Episodes (901 Available)
In Our TimeDeism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
- 48 mins
- 08 Oct 2020
In Our TimeMacbeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
- 51 mins
- 01 Oct 2020
In Our TimeCave Art
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
- 48 mins
- 24 Sep 2020
In Our TimePericles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
- 48 mins
- 17 Sep 2020
In Our TimeThe Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
- 53 mins
- 12 Mar 2020
In Our TimePaul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
- 50 mins
- 05 Mar 2020
In Our TimeThe Evolution of Horses
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
- 50 mins
- 27 Feb 2020
In Our TimeThe Valladolid Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
- 53 mins
- 20 Feb 2020
In Our TimeBattle of the Teutoburg Forest
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
- 51 mins
- 13 Feb 2020
In Our TimeGeorge Sand
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
- 54 mins
- 06 Feb 2020
In Our TimeAlcuin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
- 56 mins
- 30 Jan 2020
In Our TimeSolar Wind
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
- 55 mins
- 23 Jan 2020
In Our TimeThe Siege of Paris 1870-71
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
- 52 mins
- 16 Jan 2020
In Our TimeCatullus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
- 52 mins
- 09 Jan 2020
In Our TimeTutankhamun
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
- 53 mins
- 26 Dec 2019
In Our TimeAuden
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
- 53 mins
- 19 Dec 2019
In Our TimeCoffee
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
- 55 mins
- 12 Dec 2019
In Our TimeLawrence of Arabia
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
- 51 mins
- 05 Dec 2019
In Our TimeLi Shizhen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
- 51 mins
- 28 Nov 2019