Main content

Podcast

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

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

Episodes to download

  •

    Marlowe

    Thu 7 Jul 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines the life of glittering Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

  • Merlin

    Thu 30 Jun 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the mad man of the woods.

  • The KT Boundary

    Thu 23 Jun 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.

  • Paganism in the Renaissance

    Thu 16 Jun 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.

  • The Scriblerus Club

    Thu 9 Jun 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the satirical 18th century Scriblerus Club.

  • Renaissance Maths

    Thu 2 Jun 2005

    Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.

  • The French Revolution's reign of terror

    Thu 26 May 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of terror during the French Revolution.

  • Beauty

    Thu 19 May 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the qualities of beauty and the history of aesthetics.

  • Abelard and Heloise

    Thu 5 May 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval tale of Abelard and Heloise.

  • Perception and the Senses

    Thu 28 Apr 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.

  • The Aeneid

    Thu 21 Apr 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 鈥楾he Aeneid鈥�, Virgil's great epic poem about Rome.

  • Archaeology and Imperialism

    Thu 14 Apr 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.

  • Alfred and the Battle of Edington

    Thu 7 Apr 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines King Alfred and the defeat of the Vikings at Battle of Edington.

  • John Ruskin

    Thu 31 Mar 2005

    The life and work of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.

  • Angels

    Thu 24 Mar 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heavenly host of Angels.

  • Dark Energy

    Thu 17 Mar 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines recently discovered 'dark energy' and its effect on the universe.

  • Modernist Utopias

    Thu 10 Mar 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mad, bad world of modern utopias.

  • Stoicism

    Thu 3 Mar 2005

    Melvyn Bragg explore Stoicism, the most influential philosophy in the Ancient World.

  • Alchemy

    Thu 24 Feb 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.

  • The Cambrian Period

    Thu 17 Feb 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.

  • The Mind/Body Problem

    Thu 13 Jan 2005

    Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.

  • Tsar Alexander II's assassination

    Thu 6 Jan 2005

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.

  • The Roman Republic

    Thu 30 Dec 2004

    The rise and eventual downfall of the Roman Republic which survived for 500 years.

  • Faust

    Thu 23 Dec 2004

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myth of Faustus and temptation by evil.

  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics

    Thu 16 Dec 2004

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.

  • Machiavelli and the Italian City States

    Thu 9 Dec 2004

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.

  • Jung

    Thu 2 Dec 2004

    The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.

  • The Venerable Bede

    Thu 25 Nov 2004

    The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.

  • Higgs Boson

    Thu 18 Nov 2004

    The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.

  • Zoroastrianism

    Thu 11 Nov 2004

    The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 25
  5. 26
  6. 27
  7. 28
  8. 29
  9. …
  10. 35

In Our Time podcasts

Download programmes from the huge In Our Time archive.

The In Our Time Listeners' Top 10

If you鈥檙e new to In Our Time, this is a good place to start.

Arts and Ideas podcast

Download the best of Radio 3's Free Thinking programme.

This podcast belongs to