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In Our Time Episodes

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    Elizabeth Anscombe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.

  2. Death in Venice

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.

  3. Oedipus Rex

    Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written

  4. Mitochondria

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.

  5. Louis XIV: The Sun King

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles

  6. Virgil's Georgics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life

  7. The Shimabara Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.

  8. The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.

  9. Walt Whitman

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.

  10. Linnaeus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.

  11. The Battle of CrΓ©cy

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England

  12. Cnut

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.

  13. A Room of One's Own

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.

  14. Solon the Lawgiver

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC

  15. Mercantilism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.

  16. The Ramayana

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.

  17. Megaliths

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.

  18. Paul ErdΕ‘s

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.

  19. Stevie Smith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning

  20. Chartism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.

  21. Tycho Brahe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

  22. Superconductivity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.

  23. Rawls' Theory of Justice

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.

  24. John Donne

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.

  25. The Great Stink

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.

  26. Persuasion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.

  27. Citizen Kane

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.

  28. The Irish Rebellion of 1798

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.

  29. The Nibelungenlied

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.

  30. The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.

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