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 Renaissance
Thu 8 Jun 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.
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The American Ideal
Thu 1 Jun 2000
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.
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Chemical Elements
Thu 25 May 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
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The Wars of the Roses
Thu 18 May 2000
The 15th century wars of the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.
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Shakespeare's Work
Thu 11 May 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare鈥檚 work that makes it universal.
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Death
Thu 4 May 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death.
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Englishness
Thu 20 Apr 2000
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity.
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New Wars
Thu 13 Apr 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are in a new era in the history of modern warfare.
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The Natural Order
Thu 6 Apr 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
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History and Understanding the Past
Thu 30 Mar 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we can ever predict the future by understanding the past.
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Materialism and the Consumer
Thu 23 Mar 2000
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
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Lenin
Thu 16 Mar 2000
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled his successes.
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The Age of Doubt
Thu 9 Mar 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
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Metamorphosis
Thu 2 Mar 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid鈥檚 work Metamorphoses.
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Grand Unified Theory
Thu 24 Feb 2000
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
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Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Thu 10 Feb 2000
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
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Republicanism
Thu 3 Feb 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines how English republicanism has developed from Cromwell to today.
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Economic Rights
Thu 27 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between democracy and capitalism.
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Masculinity in Literature
Thu 20 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg investigates the changing ideals of masculinity in 20th century literature.
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Information Technology
Thu 13 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
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Climate Change
Thu 6 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
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Time
Thu 30 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind鈥檚 attempt to understand the nature of time.
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Medical Ethics
Thu 16 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
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Childhood
Thu 9 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.
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Tragedy
Thu 2 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time.
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Consciousness
Thu 25 Nov 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
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Progress
Thu 18 Nov 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.
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