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Released On: 21 Apr 2016

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.

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In Our Time
1816, the Year Without a Summer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
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In Our Time
Euclid's Elements
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.
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In Our Time
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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In Our Time
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
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In Our Time
The Muses
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.
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In Our Time
The Gettysburg Address
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.
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Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
44 mins
In Our Time
Penicillin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
46 mins
In Our Time
The Bronze Age Collapse
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.
47 mins
In Our Time
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
49 mins
In Our Time
Sovereignty
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.
47 mins
In Our Time
The Invention of Photography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
48 mins
In Our Time
Zeno's Paradoxes
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
46 mins
In Our Time
Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
51 mins
In Our Time
Lakshmi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.
47 mins
In Our Time
Plasma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
45 mins
In Our Time
The 12th Century Renaissance
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
49 mins
In Our Time
John Dalton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
45 mins
In Our Time
Epic of Gilgamesh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
46 mins
In Our Time
The Fighting Temeraire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
45 mins
In Our Time
Justinian's Legal Code
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.
47 mins
In Our Time
Baltic Crusades
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
46 mins
In Our Time
Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
49 mins
In Our Time
Harriet Martineau
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
51 mins
In Our Time
The Gin Craze
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.
52 mins
In Our Time
Four Quartets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
48 mins
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Johannes Kepler
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
48 mins
In Our Time
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Parasitism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
45 mins
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Hannah Arendt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
47 mins
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