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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Grand Tour

    The origins and cultural impact of 18th century tourism.

  2. Drugs

    Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.

  3. Chaos Theory

    Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.

  4. The Examined Life

    Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.

  5. The Physics of Reality

    Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.

  6. Tolstoy

    Melvyn Bragg explores the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.

  7. Bohemia

    The history of the ancient kingdom and its religious, national and ethnic ideologies.

  8. Extra Terrestrials

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.

  9. The Artist

    Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.

  10. Marriage

    The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.

  11. The Buddha

    The life of Siddhartha Gautama and the legacy of his teachings.

  12. Milton

    Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.

  13. Virtue

    Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.

  14. The Celts

    Melvyn Bragg examines what we really know about the Celts of pre-Roman Britain.

  15. Anatomy

    The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.

  16. The Universe's Shape

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.

  17. Yeats and Mysticism

    Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.

  18. Happiness

    Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.

  19. Catharism

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy.

  20. Nuclear Physics

    Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.

  21. Sensibility

    Melvyn Bragg examines the ideas behind the 18th century literary cult of sensibility.

  22. Food

    The cultural history of food in Modern Europe since the Renaissance.

  23. Rome and European Civilization

    Melvyn Bragg and guests assess the role that Rome has played in European civilization.

  24. Genetics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.

  25. Oscar Wilde

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.

  26. Third Crusade

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highs and lows of the Third Crusade.

  27. Oceanography

    Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.

  28. Surrealism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.

  29. The British Empire

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.

  30. Confucius

    Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the chinese philosophy of Confucianism.

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