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Eight things you might not know about Romeo and Juliet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and power of Shakespeare's tragedy.
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Nine things you might not know about the Sistine Chapel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
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10 things we know (or think we know) about megaliths
Megaliths are huge stones placed in prominent positions in the landscape. But why?
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Nine things you might not know about Little Women
Learn about author Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
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Nero to zero: The rise and fall of a brutal Roman emperor
Nine facts abouts one of history’s most notorious and eccentric leaders.
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Fabulous flights: 13 amazing facts about bird migration
How do birds migrate 15,00km back to the same place?
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How to survive the afterlife like an ancient Egyptian
Helen Nianias considers the funerary props and practices used in ancient Egypt.
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The wave: the world’s first viral image
Helen Nianias reflects on the popularity of Hokusai's Great Wave.
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What the Battle of Salamis teaches us about identity
Helen Nianias moves from sausage jokes to reflecting on an ancient sea battle.
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Seven things that happened when the planet got really, really hot
Helen Nianias on the rise of mammals and apes, and why crocodiles lived at the Poles.
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How not to be a Victorian woman
Helen Nianias considers the impact of Elizabeth Gaskell and her protagonist Margaret Hale.
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How to be virtuous, according to Seneca the Younger
Helen Nianias explains that virtue, according to Seneca, was about how you lead your life.
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How the early Islamic period shaped maths
Mathematics in the early Islamic world could be seen as its own system of faith.
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What John Clare's poetry can teach us about nature
Helen Nianias considers the life and work of the greatest labouring-class poet.
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The In Our Time Listeners' Top 10
The top ten programmes as suggested by In Our Time's audience, to mark the 750th edition.
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What Hannah Arendt can teach us about totalitarianism
How relevant is Arendt's newly popular 1951 book, The Origins of Totalitarianism?
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How YOUR parasites affect YOU
Parasites feed on us, can destroy us and yet strengthen us at the same time.
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How Mary, Queen of Scots ruled against the odds
Helen Nianias reflects on the strength and vulnerability of the 16th-century monarch.
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Harriet Martineau: The quiet radical
Martineau is seen as obscure but she did more than most people would in five lifetimes.
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When the Gin Craze swept London
Gin’s all the rage. But the trend is small beer compared with the Gin Craze of the 1700s.
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9 things you may have missed about George Orwell’s 1984
An In Our Time panel highlight things that readers may have missed in Orwell's novel.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to your questions about In Our Time - on air and online.
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Neutron facts (for which, no charge)
Neutrons play a fundamental role in the universe. Here are five facts about them.
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Seven things that might surprise you about time
Some of the fascinating things we have learned about time from listening to In Our Time.
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There's something about Mary Magdalene
The In Our Time guide to one of the best-known figures in the Bible.
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Understanding your body clock
How much do you know about your circadian rhythms?
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Could you be a muse? (A musing on the modern muse)
Do you have the looks, presence or spirit that could help define an artist’s career?
