In Our Time - Aristotle's Biology - BBC Sounds

Judith beheading Holofernes

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.

• 49 mins

Pheromones

A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.

• 49 mins

Antarah ibn Shaddad

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight

• 49 mins

William Cecil

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.

• 51 mins

Authenticity

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

• 50 mins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

• 47 mins

The Danelaw

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.

• 50 mins

The Great Irish Famine

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.

• 57 mins

The Evolution of Teeth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.

• 49 mins

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays

• 54 mins

Nero

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.

• 51 mins

The Gordon Riots

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.

• 50 mins

Bergson and Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing

• 51 mins

Frankenstein

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life

• 55 mins

Kinetic Theory

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.

• 51 mins

President Ulysses S Grant

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War

• 55 mins

Sir Thomas Browne

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times

• 52 mins

The Inca

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived

• 52 mins

The Mytilenaean Debate

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.

• 54 mins

Doggerland

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.

• 54 mins

Lorca

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.

• 53 mins

Echolocation (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.

• 51 mins

Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery

• 52 mins

Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)

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

• 49 mins

Venus (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin

• 50 mins

Hope (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?

• 53 mins

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England

• 51 mins

Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians

• 48 mins

Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity

• 47 mins

Picasso's Guernica (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work

• 54 mins