In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy
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Titus Oates and his "Popish Plot" (summer repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot
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Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded
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The Valladolid Debate (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans
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The Treaty of Limerick (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
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The Sistine Chapel (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome
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The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the liquid qualities of brittle glass
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The Russo-Japanese War (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
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The Rapture (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.
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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
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The Lancashire Cotton Famine (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Lancashire Cotton Famine
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The Interregnum (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles.
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The Iliad (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War
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The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th Century
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The Gin Craze (repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the 18th Century gin craze.
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The Franco-American Alliance 1778 (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth
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The Fighting Temeraire (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's painting The Fighting Temeraire.
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The Evolution of Teeth (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
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The Evolution of Crocodiles (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia
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The Death of Stars (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the end of stars can lead to new planets and new life
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The Bacchae (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
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The 12th Century Renaissance (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in Western Europe
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
