In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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Maria Theresa
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
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Alan Turing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
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Deism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
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Macbeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
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Cave Art
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.
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Pericles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.
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The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
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Paul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
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The Evolution of Horses
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
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The Valladolid Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.
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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.
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George Sand
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
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Alcuin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th
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Solar Wind
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
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The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
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Catullus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
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Tutankhamun
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed
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Auden
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
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Coffee
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
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Lawrence of Arabia
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
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Li Shizhen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
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Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Crime and Punishment
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
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The Treaty of Limerick
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
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Hybrids
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
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Robert Burns
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
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The Time Machine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
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Rousseau on Education
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The Rapture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
