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In Our Time Episodes

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    Louis Pasteur

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.

  2. Emily Dickinson

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.

  3. The Battle of Lincoln 1217

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for the English crown at the Battle of Lincoln.

  4. The Egyptian Book of the Dead

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Egyptian funerary text, The Book of the Dead.

  5. Roger Bacon

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.

  6. Rosa Luxemburg

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.

  7. Pauli's Exclusion Principle

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

  8. Hokusai

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

  9. The Battle of Salamis

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the significance of The Battle of Salamis, 480BC.

  10. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.

  11. North and South

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.

  12. The Kuiper Belt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.

  13. Seneca the Younger

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.

  14. Maths in the Early Islamic World

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.

  15. John Clare

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.

  16. Hannah Arendt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

  17. Parasitism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another

  18. Mary, Queen of Scots

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.

  19. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.

  20. Johannes Kepler

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.

  21. Four Quartets

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.

  22. The Gin Craze

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.

  23. Harriet Martineau

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.

  24. Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.

  25. Baltic Crusades

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.

  26. Justinian's Legal Code

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.

  27. The Fighting Temeraire

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.

  28. Epic of Gilgamesh

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.

  29. John Dalton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.

  30. The 12th Century Renaissance

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.

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