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In Our Time

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

Episodes

Total: 1075

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest changes in the history of life on Earth. Around

Berthe Morisot

2022/11/10

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressio

The Knights Templar

2022/11/3

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the military order founded around 1119, twenty years after the Crusa

The Electron

2022/10/27

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an atomic particle that's become inseparable from modernity. JJ Thom

Plato's Atlantis

2022/10/20

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's account of the once great island of Atlantis out to the west

Nineteen Eighty-Four

2022/10/13

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a

John Bull

2022/7/28

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and his d

Angkor Wat

2022/7/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on

Dylan Thomas

2022/7/14

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). He wrote some

The Death of Stars

2022/7/7

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the abrupt transformation of stars after shining brightly for millio

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) on history. He

Comenius

2022/6/16

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670) known throughout Eu

Tang Era Poetry

2022/6/9

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss two of China’s greatest poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, who wrote in the 8t

The Davidian Revolution

2022/6/2

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on

Early Christian Martyrdom

2022/5/26

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of th

Olympe de Gouges

2022/5/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French playwright who, in 1791, wrote The Declaration of the Rig

Homo erectus

2022/5/12

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of our ancestors, Homo erectus, who thrived on Earth for around

Polidori's The Vampyre

2022/5/5

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential novella of John Polidori (1795-1821) published in 18

The Sistine Chapel

2022/4/28

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing work of Michelangelo (1477-1564) in this great chape

Antigone

2022/4/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigon