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In Our Time Episodes

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    Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.

  2. Lorca

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.

  3. Doggerland

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.

  4. The Mytilenaean Debate

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.

  5. The Inca

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived

  6. Sir Thomas Browne

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times

  7. President Ulysses S Grant

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War

  8. Kinetic Theory

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.

  9. Frankenstein

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life

  10. Bergson and Time

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing

  11. The Gordon Riots

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.

  12. Nero

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.

  13. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays

  14. The Evolution of Teeth

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

  15. The Great Irish Famine

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.

  16. The Danelaw

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.

  17. Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

  18. Authenticity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  19. William Cecil

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.

  20. Antarah ibn Shaddad

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight

  21. Pheromones

    A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.

  22. Judith beheading Holofernes

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.

  23. Aristotle's Biology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.

  24. Owain Glyndwr

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century

  25. Emmy Noether

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.

  26. Samuel Beckett

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot

  27. Papal Infallibility

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office

  28. Venus

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

  29. The Poor Laws

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse

  30. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England

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