In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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Italo Calvino
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist
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The Antikythera Mechanism
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
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George Herbert
Thu 7 Nov 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
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The Venetian Empire
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
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Little Women
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters
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Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
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Robert Graves
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
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The Haymarket Affair
Thu 3 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
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Wormholes
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
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Bacteriophages
Thu 4 Jul 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
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Monet in England
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
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Karma
Thu 20 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
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Fielding's Tom Jones
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
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The Orkneyinga Saga
Thu 6 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
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Marsilius of Padua
Thu 30 May 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Thu 23 May 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
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Philippa Foot
Thu 16 May 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thu 9 May 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
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Bertolt Brecht
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
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Napoleon's Hundred Days
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
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Lysistrata
Thu 11 Apr 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
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Nikola Tesla
Thu 4 Apr 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.
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The Kalevala
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
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Julian the Apostate
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
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The Waltz
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
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The Mokrani Revolt
Thu 7 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Thu 29 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics
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The Sack of Rome 1527
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
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