Browse the Prehistoric era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
Melvyn Bragg examines the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the Antarctic and its exploration.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
Melvyn Bragg explores the question and theories of a grand design in the universe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
The significance of fossils in history and the impact of techniques in understanding them.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the six million year old story of human evolution.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
