In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Episodes to download
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Thu 19 Jan 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
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Four Quartets
Thu 22 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
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The Gin Craze
Thu 15 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
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Harriet Martineau
Thu 8 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
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Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Thu 1 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
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Baltic Crusades
Thu 24 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
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Justinian's Legal Code
Thu 17 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
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The Fighting Temeraire
Thu 10 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
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Epic of Gilgamesh
Thu 3 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
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The 12th Century Renaissance
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
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Plasma
Thu 13 Oct 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
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Zeno's Paradoxes
Thu 22 Sep 2016
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
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The Invention of Photography
Thu 7 Jul 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Thu 23 Jun 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
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Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
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The Gettysburg Address
Thu 26 May 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
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Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
Thu 12 May 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thu 5 May 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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1816, the Year Without a Summer
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
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The Sikh Empire
Thu 7 Apr 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
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