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In Our Time Episodes

  1. 15/05/2025

    9am Conversation - entertainment for the morning

  2. 08/05/2025

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

  3. The Korean Empire

    How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th century in a bid for independence.

  4. 惭辞濒颈猫谤别

    The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

  5. Typology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.

  6. The Battle of Clontarf

    Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

  7. The Gracchi

    Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.

  8. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought

  9. Thomas Middleton

    The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare

  10. Cyrus the Great

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.

  11. Pollination

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.

  12. Kali

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms

  13. Oliver Goldsmith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.

  14. Catherine of Aragon

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.

  15. Sir John Soane

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.

  16. Pope Joan

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.

  17. Socrates in Prison

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.

  18. The Battle of Valmy

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.

  19. Slime Moulds

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.

  20. Vase-mania

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.

  21. Plutarch's Parallel Lives

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work

  22. The Habitability of Planets

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

  23. Nizami Ganjavi

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.

  24. The Hanoverian Succession

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.

  25. Italo Calvino

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist

  26. The Antikythera Mechanism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.

  27. George Herbert

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.

  28. The Venetian Empire

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.

  29. Little Women

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters

  30. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny

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