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In Our Time Episodes

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    Nikola Tesla

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.

  2. The Kalevala

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.

  3. Julian the Apostate

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism

  4. The Waltz

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.

  5. The Mokrani Revolt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.

  6. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics

  7. The Sack of Rome 1527

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans

  8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell

  9. Hormones

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work

  10. The Hanseatic League

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.

  11. Panpsychism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.

  12. Nefertiti

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.

  13. Condorcet

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.

  14. Twelfth Night, or What You Will

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.

  15. Vincent van Gogh

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.

  16. Tiberius

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.

  17. Karl Barth

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.

  18. Edgar Allan Poe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.

  19. Marguerite de Navarre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.

  20. The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.

  21. The Barbary Corsairs

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language

  22. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.

  23. Germinal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.

  24. Julian of Norwich

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.

  25. The Federalist Papers

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.

  26. Plankton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.

  27. The Economic Consequences of the Peace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles

  28. The Seventh Seal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death

  29. Albert Einstein

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.

  30. Jupiter

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.

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