In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
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Hormones
Thu 8 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work
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The Hanseatic League
Thu 1 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
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Panpsychism
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.
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Nefertiti
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
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Condorcet
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.
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Vincent van Gogh
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
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Tiberius
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
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Karl Barth
Thu 7 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
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Marguerite de Navarre
Thu 23 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
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The Barbary Corsairs
Thu 9 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Thu 2 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.
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Germinal
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
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Julian of Norwich
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
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The Federalist Papers
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
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Plankton
Thu 5 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
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The Seventh Seal
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
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Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain
Thu 21 Sep 2023
To mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain.
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Albert Einstein
Thu 14 Sep 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.
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Elizabeth Anscombe
Thu 22 Jun 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.
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Oedipus Rex
Thu 8 Jun 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
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Mitochondria
Thu 1 Jun 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
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Louis XIV: The Sun King
Thu 25 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
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Virgil's Georgics
Thu 18 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
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