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In Our Time

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.

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In Our Time
William Morris
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
43 mins
In Our Time
Jane Eyre (Summer Repeat)
Charlotte Brontë's story of Jane Eyre, governess, and Mr Rochester, master of Thornfield
46 mins
In Our Time
The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the liquid qualities of brittle glass
46 mins
In Our Time
Four Quartets (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work
49 mins
In Our Time
The 12th Century Renaissance (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in Western Europe
49 mins
In Our Time
The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th Century
52 mins
In Our Time
Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our body clocks
48 mins
In Our Time
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
45 mins
In Our Time
Robert Hooke (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Robert Hooke
48 mins
In Our Time
Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
47 mins
In Our Time
The Iliad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
43 mins
In Our Time
Automata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
42 mins
In Our Time
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
42 mins
In Our Time
Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
42 mins
In Our Time
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
42 mins
In Our Time
Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
42 mins
In Our Time
The Fable of the Bees
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
42 mins
In Our Time
Free Radicals
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
42 mins
In Our Time
Marie Antoinette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
49 mins
In Our Time
Horace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
48 mins
In Our Time
Hope
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
53 mins
In Our Time
The Long March
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
50 mins
In Our Time
The Thirty Years War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
50 mins
In Our Time
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
51 mins
In Our Time
The Poor Laws
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
50 mins
In Our Time
Venus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
50 mins
In Our Time
Papal Infallibility
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
51 mins
In Our Time
Samuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
48 mins
In Our Time
Emmy Noether
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
48 mins
In Our Time
Owain Glyndwr
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century
48 mins
In Our Time
Aristotle's Biology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
50 mins
In Our Time
Judith beheading Holofernes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
49 mins
In Our Time
Pheromones
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
49 mins
In Our Time
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
49 mins
In Our Time
William Cecil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.
51 mins
In Our Time
Authenticity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
50 mins
In Our Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
47 mins
In Our Time
The Danelaw
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.
50 mins
In Our Time
The Great Irish Famine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
57 mins
In Our Time
The Evolution of Teeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
49 mins
In Our Time
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays
54 mins
In Our Time
Nero
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.
51 mins
In Our Time
The Gordon Riots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
50 mins
In Our Time
Bergson and Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
51 mins
In Our Time
Frankenstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
55 mins
In Our Time
Kinetic Theory
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
51 mins
In Our Time
President Ulysses S Grant
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
55 mins
In Our Time
Sir Thomas Browne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
52 mins
In Our Time
The Inca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
52 mins
Noise: A Human History
Revolution and War
The soundscape of civil conflict in 18th-century Paris and 19th-century America.
15 mins
Suburbia
An exploration of the history, cultures and aspects of British life found in suburbia.
180 mins
Time Travels
Executioners, Egypt and The Family Home
Susan Morrison finds out about The Family Home and goes on the trail of two executioners.
28 mins
Pete Wilson
Charles Wheatstone
Pete Wilson explores the characters and communities that make Gloucestershire great.
60 mins
Roy Noble
16/06/2019
Roy looks ahead to BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World with Beverley Humphreys.
117 mins

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