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In Our Time Episodes

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    Arianism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.

  2. Pierre-Simon Laplace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.

  3. The Russo-Japanese War

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.

  4. David Ricardo

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars

  5. The Bacchae

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.

  6. The Late Devonian Extinction

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.

  7. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.

  8. Marcus Aurelius

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.

  9. Medieval Pilgrimage

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.

  10. The Rosetta Stone

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.

  11. Emilie du ChΓΆtelet

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.

  12. Saint Cuthbert

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.

  13. The Plague of Justinian

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.

  14. The Great Gatsby

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.

  15. Eclipses

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

  16. The Cultural Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76

  17. John Wesley and Methodism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century

  18. Fernando Pessoa

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.

  19. The Zong Massacre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.

  20. Albrecht DΓΌrer

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.

  21. Mary Astell

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).

  22. Piers Plowman

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.

  23. Maria Theresa

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order

  24. Alan Turing

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.

  25. Deism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.

  26. Macbeth

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.

  27. Cave Art

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

  28. Pericles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.

  29. The Covenanters

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.

  30. Paul Dirac

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.

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