In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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Prophecy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss prophecy in the Abrahamic religions.
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Relativity
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Queen Zenobia
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.
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尝茅惫颈-厂迟谤补耻蝉蝉
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
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Cosmic Rays
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
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Icelandic Sagas
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.
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Gnosticism
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Gnosticism, a sect associated with early Christianity.
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Montaigne
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.
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The Putney Debates
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647.
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The Amazons
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth.
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Japan's Sakoku Period
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period of deliberate isolation.
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Water
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Chekhov
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
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Absolute Zero
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature.
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Pitt-Rivers
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
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Decline and Fall
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall.
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Ice Ages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ice ages.
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Epicureanism
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of Epicureanism.
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The War of 1812
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain.
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Romulus and Remus
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Romulus and Remus, the foundation myth of Rome.
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Comets
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss comets, the 'dirty snowballs' of the solar system.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.
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The Cult of Mithras
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the cult of Mithras, the Roman mystery religion.
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The South Sea Bubble
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
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Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian epic poem, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.
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Bertrand Russell
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss influential British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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Crystallography
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and achievements of crystallography.
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The Borgias
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Borgias, the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy
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Simone Weil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil.
