Main content

In Our Time Episodes

  1.

    Demosthenes' Philippics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.

  2. Bauhaus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.

  3. The Morant Bay Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.

  4. Wilfred Owen

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.

  5. The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.

  6. Berthe Morisot

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism

  7. The Knights Templar

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.

  8. The Electron

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.

  9. Plato's Atlantis

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.

  10. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.

  11. John Bull

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure

  12. Angkor Wat

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.

  13. Dylan Thomas

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer

  14. The Death of Stars

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life

  15. Hegel's Philosophy of History

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.

  16. Comenius

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.

  17. Tang Era Poetry

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.

  18. The Davidian Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153

  19. Early Christian Martyrdom

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.

  20. Olympe de Gouges

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791

  21. Homo erectus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.

  22. Polidori's The Vampyre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales

  23. The Sistine Chapel

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.

  24. Antigone

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.

  25. Charisma

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

  26. Seismology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.

  27. The Arthashastra

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.

  28. Peter Kropotkin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid

  29. Romeo and Juliet

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona

  30. Walter Benjamin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 4
  7. 5
  8. 6
  9. …
  10. 38