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In Our Time Episodes

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    Science's Revelations

    Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.

  2. Politics in the 20th Century

    Melvyn Bragg discusses politics and morality with Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke.

  3. War in the 20th Century

    Melvyn Bragg explores ideas that have influenced 20th century human rights and warfare.

  4. Zeno's Paradoxes

    Does an arrow in flight move? Could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno

  5. Wuthering Heights (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bront毛's only novel, Wuthering Heights.

  6. Walter Benjamin (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century

  7. Venus (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin

  8. Utilitarianism (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.

  9. Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy

  10. Titus Oates and his "Popish Plot" (summer repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot

  11. Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded

  12. The Valladolid Debate (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans

  13. The Treaty of Limerick (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691

  14. The Sistine Chapel (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome

  15. The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the liquid qualities of brittle glass

  16. The Russo-Japanese War (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.

  17. The Rapture (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.

  18. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.

  19. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Summer Repeat)

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

  20. The Lancashire Cotton Famine (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Lancashire Cotton Famine

  21. The Interregnum (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles.

  22. The Iliad (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War

  23. The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat)

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

  24. The Gin Craze (repeat)

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

  25. The Franco-American Alliance 1778 (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact

  26. The Fish-Tetrapod Transition (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth

  27. The Fighting Temeraire (Summer Repeat)

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

  28. The Evolution of Teeth (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.

  29. The Evolution of Crocodiles (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs

  30. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Summer Repeat)

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

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