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In Our Time Episodes

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    Frankenstein

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life

  2. Bergson and Time

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing

  3. The Gordon Riots

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.

  4. Nero

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.

  5. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays

  6. The Evolution of Teeth

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.

  7. The Great Irish Famine

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.

  8. The Danelaw

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.

  9. Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

  10. Authenticity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  11. William Cecil

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.

  12. Antarah ibn Shaddad

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight

  13. Pheromones

    A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.

  14. Judith beheading Holofernes

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.

  15. Aristotle's Biology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.

  16. Owain Glyndwr

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century

  17. Emmy Noether

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.

  18. Samuel Beckett

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot

  19. Papal Infallibility

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office

  20. Venus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin

  21. The Poor Laws

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse

  22. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England

  23. The Thirty Years War

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648

  24. The Long March

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934

  25. Hope

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?

  26. Horace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.

  27. Marie Antoinette

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.

  28. Free Radicals

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing

  29. The Fable of the Bees

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.

  30. Is Shakespeare History? The Romans

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).

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