Browse the 19th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
The work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist James Clerk Maxwell.
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand.
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
The life and work of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream.
The comparative histories of two titans of 19th century history.
The history of the philosophy that claims that truths are illusory.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the American philosophy of pragmatism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novels of sensation, a Victorian literary phenomenon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
