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In Our Time Episodes

  1. The Battle of Valmy

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat

  2. Slime Moulds

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.

  3. Vase-mania

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.

  4. Plutarch's Parallel Lives

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work

  5. The Habitability of Planets

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

  6. Nizami Ganjavi

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.

  7. The Hanoverian Succession

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.

  8. Italo Calvino

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist

  9. The Antikythera Mechanism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.

  10. George Herbert

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.

  11. The Venetian Empire

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.

  12. Little Women

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

  13. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

  14. Robert Graves

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.

  15. The Haymarket Affair

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

  16. Wormholes

    Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.

  17. Benjamin Disraeli

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.

  18. Bacteriophages

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

  19. Monet in England

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.

  20. Karma

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.

  21. Fielding's Tom Jones

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.

  22. The Orkneyinga Saga

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.

  23. Marsilius of Padua

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas

  24. Empress Dowager Cixi

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.

  25. Philippa Foot

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century

  26. Sir Thomas Wyatt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court

  27. Mercury

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.

  28. Bertolt Brecht

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.

  29. Napoleon's Hundred Days

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo

  30. Lysistrata

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.

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