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Released On: 18 Nov 1999

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Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.

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In Our Time
Progress
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.
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In Our Time
Consciousness
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
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In Our Time
Tragedy
Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time.
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In Our Time
Childhood
Melvyn Bragg looks at how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.
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In Our Time
Medical Ethics
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
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Prayer
Melvyn Bragg examines the purpose and effects of prayer.
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In Our Time
Time
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind鈥檚 attempt to understand the nature of time.
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In Our Time
Climate Change
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
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In Our Time
Information Technology
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
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In Our Time
Masculinity in Literature
Melvyn Bragg investigates the changing ideals of masculinity in 20th century literature.
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In Our Time
Economic Rights
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between democracy and capitalism.
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In Our Time
Republicanism
Melvyn Bragg examines how English republicanism has developed from Cromwell to today.
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In Our Time
Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
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In Our Time
Reading
The history of the politics, practice and process of reading.
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Grand Unified Theory
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
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Metamorphosis
Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid鈥檚 work Metamorphoses.
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In Our Time
The Age of Doubt
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
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In Our Time
Lenin
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled his successes.
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In Our Time
Materialism and the Consumer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
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In Our Time
History and Understanding the Past
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we can ever predict the future by understanding the past.
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In Our Time
The Natural Order
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
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In Our Time
New Wars
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are in a new era in the history of modern warfare.
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In Our Time
Englishness
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity.
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In Our Time
Human Origins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
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In Our Time
Death
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death.
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In Our Time
Shakespeare's Work
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare鈥檚 work that makes it universal.
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In Our Time
The Wars of the Roses
The 15th century wars of the royal Houses of Lancaster and York.
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In Our Time
Chemical Elements
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
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In Our Time
The American Ideal
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.
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In Our Time
The Renaissance
Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.
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In Our Time
Inspiration and Genius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the true meaning of genius and whether it is born or made.
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