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In Our Time

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

Episodes

Total: 1045

Sir Thomas Wyatt

2024/6/6

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

Mercury

2024/5/30

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an evening or

Bertolt Brecht

2024/5/23

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest European playwrights of the twentieth century. T

Napoleon's Hundred Days

2024/5/16

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's temporary return to power in France in 1815, fo

Lysistrata

2024/5/9

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which the women of Athens and Sparta, led by

Nikola Tesla

2024/5/2

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and his role

The Kalevala

2024/4/25

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Finnish epic poem that first appeared in print in 1835 in what w

Julian the Apostate

2024/4/18

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after Constan

The Waltz

2024/4/11

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dance which, from when it reached Britain in the early nineteent

The Mokrani Revolt

2024/4/4

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolt that broke out in 1871 in Algeria against French rule, sp

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still a student

The Sack of Rome 1527

2024/3/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous assault of an army of the Holy Roman Emperor on the cit

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with illu

Hormones

2024/3/7

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies throughout

The Hanseatic League

2024/2/29

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hanseatic League or Hansa which dominated North European trade i

Panpsychism

2024/2/22

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that some kind of consciousness is present not just in our

Nefertiti

2024/2/15

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who inspired one of the best known artefacts from ancient

Condorcet

2024/2/8

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94), known as the Last of the Philosophes

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s great comedies, which plays in the space betwee

Vincent van Gogh

2024/1/18

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch artist famous for starry nights and sunflowers, self portr