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In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

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Rawls' Theory of Justice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
19 Jan 2023,60 mins
John Donne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
12 Jan 2023,51 mins
The Great Stink
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
29 Dec 2022,50 mins
Persuasion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
22 Dec 2022,50 mins
Citizen Kane
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
15 Dec 2022,53 mins
The Irish Rebellion of 1798
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
08 Dec 2022,55 mins
The Nibelungenlied
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
01 Dec 2022,54 mins
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
24 Nov 2022,51 mins
Demosthenes' Philippics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.
17 Nov 2022,56 mins
Bauhaus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
10 Nov 2022,56 mins
The Morant Bay Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
03 Nov 2022,53 mins
Wilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
27 Oct 2022,56 mins
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
20 Oct 2022,55 mins
Berthe Morisot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
13 Oct 2022,60 mins
The Knights Templar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.
06 Oct 2022,49 mins
The Electron
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
29 Sep 2022,49 mins
Plato's Atlantis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.
22 Sep 2022,54 mins
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
15 Sep 2022,42 mins
John Bull
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
30 Jun 2022,53 mins
Angkor Wat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
23 Jun 2022,49 mins
Dylan Thomas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
16 Jun 2022,50 mins
The Death of Stars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
09 Jun 2022,58 mins
Hegel's Philosophy of History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
26 May 2022,52 mins
Comenius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
19 May 2022,56 mins
Tang Era Poetry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
12 May 2022,46 mins
The Davidian Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153
05 May 2022,50 mins
Early Christian Martyrdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
28 Apr 2022,53 mins
Olympe de Gouges
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
21 Apr 2022,49 mins
Homo erectus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
14 Apr 2022,51 mins
Polidori's The Vampyre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
07 Apr 2022,51 mins

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