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In Our Time Episodes

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    Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.

  2. Baconian Science

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.

  3. The School of Athens

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.

  4. The Boxer Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.

  5. The Library of Alexandria

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.

  6. The Measurement Problem in Physics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.

  7. The Waste Land and Modernity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.

  8. The Observatory at Jaipur

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.

  9. Carthage's Destruction

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage

  10. The Brothers Grimm

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

  11. Swift's A Modest Proposal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal

  12. History of History

    Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.

  13. Thoreau and the American Idyll

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

  15. The Consolations of Philosophy

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.

  16. The Physics of Time

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.

  17. The Fire of London

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.

  18. Heat

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.

  19. The Great Reform Act

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.

  20. The Baroque Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.

  21. Neuroscience

    Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.

  22. Aristotle's Politics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle鈥檚 鈥楶olitics鈥�.

  23. Bolivar

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.

  24. Dante's Inferno

    Melvyn Bragg examines Dante鈥檚 鈥業nferno鈥�, a medieval journey through Hell鈥檚 nine circles

  25. Vitalism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.

  26. Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.

  27. The Translation Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.

  28. Miracles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.

  29. Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome

    Melvyn Bragg examines the life and chronicles of the the Roman historian Tacitus.

  30. The Metaphysical Poets

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.

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