In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

Episodes

Total: 1070

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Korea's brief but significant period as an empire as it moved from t

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in world literature. The French playwright

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore typology, a method of biblical interpretation that aims to meaningfu

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the best known events and figures in Irish history. In 1014

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus whose names are entwined wi

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was pa

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most energetic, varied and innovative playwrights of his

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history and reputation of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great. Cyr

Since plants have to mate and produce offspring while rooted to the spot, they have to be pollinated

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hindu goddess Kali, often depicted as dark blue, fierce, defiant

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the renowned and versatile Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 177

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the architect Sir John Soane (1753 -1837), the son of a bricklayer.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a story that circulated widely in the middle ages about a highly lea

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most consequential battles of recent centuries. On 20th S

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats and compos

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss eighteenth century 'vase-mania'. In the second half of the century,

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especially his wo

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the great unanswered questions in science: how and where did