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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Saint Cuthbert
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
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The Plague of Justinian
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.
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The Great Gatsby
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
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Eclipses
Thu 31 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
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The Cultural Revolution
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
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John Wesley and Methodism
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
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Fernando Pessoa
Thu 3 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
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The Zong Massacre
Thu 26 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
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Albrecht Dürer
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.
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Mary Astell
Thu 5 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
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Piers Plowman
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
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Maria Theresa
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
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Alan Turing
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
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Deism
Thu 8 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
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Cave Art
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
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Pericles
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
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The Covenanters
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
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Paul Dirac
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
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The Evolution of Horses
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
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The Valladolid Debate
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
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George Sand
Thu 6 Feb 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
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Alcuin
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
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Solar Wind
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
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The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
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Catullus
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
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Tutankhamun
Boxing Day 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
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Auden
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
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