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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The Black Death
Thu 22 May 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.
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The Library at Nineveh
Thu 15 May 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.
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The Brain
Thu 8 May 2008
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
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The Enclosures of the 18th Century
Thu 1 May 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
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Yeats and Irish Politics
Thu 17 Apr 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Thu 27 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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Kierkegaard
Thu 20 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
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The Greek Myths
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
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Ada Lovelace
Thu 6 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
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Lear
Thu 28 Feb 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
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The Social Contract
Thu 7 Feb 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
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Rudolph II
Thu 31 Jan 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.
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Plate Tectonics
Thu 24 Jan 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
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The Fisher King
Thu 17 Jan 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Thu 10 Jan 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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The Nicene Creed
Thu 27 Dec 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nicene Creed which established the Divinity of Christ.
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The Sassanid Empire
Thu 13 Dec 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Sassanian Empire in Persia from the 3rd to the 7th century AD.
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The Fibonacci Sequence
Thu 29 Nov 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
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The Prelude
Thu 22 Nov 2007
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude.
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Oxygen
Thu 15 Nov 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.
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