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In Our Time

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

Episodes

Total: 1044

Little Women

2024/11/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel, credited with starting the new genre

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

2024/11/14

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Robert Graves

2024/11/7

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of 'I, Claudius' who was also one of the finest poets of

The Haymarket Affair

2024/10/31

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notorious attack of 4th of May 1886 at a workers rally in Chicag

Wormholes

2024/10/24

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tantalising idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxi

Benjamin Disraeli

2024/10/17

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the major figures in Victorian British politics. Disraeli (18

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth. Inside ea

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928) and his commitment to poetry, which he pri

Charisma (Summer Repeat)

2024/9/26

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of charismatic authority developed by Max Weber (1864-1920)

In 1956 Oxford University awarded an honorary degree to the former US president Harry S. Truman for

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

Bacteriophages

2024/8/1

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most abundant lifeform on Earth: the viruses that 'eat' bacteria

Monet in England

2024/7/25

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the great French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Karma

2024/7/18

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine of Karma as developed initially among Hindus, Jains and

Fielding's Tom Jones

2024/7/11

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (17

The Orkneyinga Saga

2024/7/4

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney, as told in the 13th Century by an u

Marsilius of Padua

2024/6/27

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the canonical figures from the history of political thought.

Empress Dowager Cixi

2024/6/20

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who, for almost fifty years, was the most powerful figure

Philippa Foot

2024/6/13

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century,

Sir Thomas Wyatt

2024/6/6

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the greatest poet of his age', Thomas Wyatt (1503 -1542), who brou