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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Frankfurt School

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and influence of the Frankfurt School.

  3. Mary Wollstonecraft

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.

  4. The Samurai

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and myth of the Samurai.

  5. Pythagoras

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.

  6. The Silk Road

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.

  7. Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

  8. Sparta

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.

  9. Radiation

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays

  10. The Siege of Munster

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.

  11. Schopenhauer

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.

  12. The Geological Formation of Britain

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.

  13. The Death of Elizabeth I

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

  14. The Dreyfus Affair

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dreyfus Affair, which tore France apart in the 1890s.

  15. Akhenaten

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Pharaoh Akhenaten.

  16. Calculus

    The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.

  17. St Thomas Aquinas

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas.

  18. Ediacara Biota

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.

  19. Logical Positivism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.

  20. Sunni and Shia Islam

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of the split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims

  21. Elizabethan Revenge

    Melvyn Bragg discusses why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers.

  22. The Augustan Age

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Augustan Age in Rome.

  23. The Trial of Charles I

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the trial of Charles I.

  24. St Paul

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of St Paul on the early Christian church.

  25. The Whale - A History

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.

  26. The Siege of Vienna

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Army.

  27. The Magna Carta

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Magna Carta.

  28. The Vacuum of Space

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.

  29. The Building of St Petersburg

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.

  30. Suffragism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.

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