Browse the Enlightenment era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empress who transformed and modernized Russia.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Dutch, Jewish and Christian Philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th century obsession with taste.
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg examines the emergence and impact of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of terror during the French Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg examines an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
Melvyn Bragg explores a transcendental idea that took hold on the Age of Enlightenment.
