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In Our Time Episodes

  1. Frederick Douglass

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery

  2. Four Quartets (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work

  3. Feathered Dinosaurs (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.

  4. Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians

  5. Elizabeth Anscombe (Summer Repeat)

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

  6. Edward Gibbon (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  7. Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age

  8. Eclipses (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.

  9. Echolocation (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.

  10. Doggerland (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea

  11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler

  12. Corals (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.

  13. Colette (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century

  14. Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our body clocks

  15. Charisma (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership

  16. Cave Art (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.

  17. Catullus (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.

  19. Bird Migration

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

  20. Bergson and Time (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas on our experience of time passing

  21. Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards

  22. Automata (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.

  23. Authenticity (Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  24. Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity

  25. Auden (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

  26. 1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.

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