In Our Time Podcast
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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David Ricardo
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
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The Bacchae
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
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The Late Devonian Extinction
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Thu 4 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
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Marcus Aurelius
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and meditations of 'the last good Roman emperor'.
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Medieval Pilgrimage
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
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The Rosetta Stone
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.
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Emilie du Ch芒telet
Thu 4 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
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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 D眉rer
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 鈥� 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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