In Our Time

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

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
Hope (Summer Repeat) Aug. 8, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
Venus (Summer Repeat) Aug. 1, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Lorca July 4, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
Doggerland June 27, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
The Mytilenaean Debate June 20, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
The Inca June 13, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
Sir Thomas Browne June 6, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
Kinetic Theory May 23, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
Frankenstein May 16, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
Bergson and Time May 9, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
The Gordon Riots May 2, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
Nero April 25, 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.