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In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas

Episodes (876 Available)

In Our Time
The Time Machine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
51 mins
17 Oct 2019
In Our Time
Rousseau on Education
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
51 mins
10 Oct 2019
In Our Time
Dorothy Hodgkin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
52 mins
03 Oct 2019
In Our Time
The Rapture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
51 mins
26 Sep 2019
In Our Time
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
54 mins
19 Sep 2019
In Our Time
Free Will (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.
43 mins
12 Sep 2019
In Our Time
Picasso's Guernica (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work
54 mins
05 Sep 2019
In Our Time
Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity
47 mins
29 Aug 2019
In Our Time
Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians
48 mins
22 Aug 2019
In Our Time
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
51 mins
15 Aug 2019
In Our Time
Hope (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
53 mins
08 Aug 2019
In Our Time
Venus (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
50 mins
01 Aug 2019
In Our Time
Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age
49 mins
25 Jul 2019
In Our Time
Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery
52 mins
18 Jul 2019
In Our Time
Echolocation (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
51 mins
11 Jul 2019
In Our Time
Lorca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
53 mins
04 Jul 2019
In Our Time
Doggerland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
54 mins
27 Jun 2019
In Our Time
The Mytilenaean Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
54 mins
20 Jun 2019
In Our Time
The Inca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
52 mins
13 Jun 2019
In Our Time
Sir Thomas Browne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
52 mins
06 Jun 2019