In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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The Shimabara Rebellion
Thu 11 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
Thu 4 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
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Walt Whitman
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
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Linnaeus
Thu 20 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
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The Battle of CrΓ©cy
Thu 13 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England
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Cnut
Thu 6 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
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A Room of One's Own
Thu 30 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
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Solon the Lawgiver
Thu 23 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
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Mercantilism
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
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Megaliths
Thu 2 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
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Paul ErdΕ‘s
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
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Stevie Smith
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
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Chartism
Thu 9 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
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Tycho Brahe
Thu 2 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
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Superconductivity
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
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Rawls' Theory of Justice
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
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John Donne
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
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The Great Stink
Thu 29 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
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Persuasion
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
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Citizen Kane
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
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The Irish Rebellion of 1798
Thu 8 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
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The Nibelungenlied
Thu 1 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
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The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
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Demosthenes' Philippics
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
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Bauhaus
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
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The Morant Bay Rebellion
Thu 3 Nov 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
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Wilfred Owen
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Thu 20 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
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Berthe Morisot
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
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