In Our Time - Sir Thomas Browne - BBC Sounds

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

Free Will (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.

• 43 mins

Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.

• 54 mins

The Rapture

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.

• 51 mins

Dorothy Hodgkin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• 52 mins

Rousseau on Education

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children

• 51 mins

The Time Machine

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

• 51 mins

Robert Burns

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).

• 52 mins

Hybrids

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce

• 50 mins

The Treaty of Limerick

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691

• 52 mins

Crime and Punishment

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....

• 52 mins

Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem

• 52 mins

Li Shizhen

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty

• 51 mins

Lawrence of Arabia

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week

• 51 mins

Coffee

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact

• 55 mins

Auden

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

• 53 mins

Tutankhamun

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed

• 53 mins

Catullus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

• 52 mins