Browse the 17th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the Native American Pocahontas.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
