In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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10/04/2025
9am Conversation - entertainment for the morning
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03/04/2025
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
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The Gracchi
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
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Thomas Middleton
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
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Cyrus the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
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Pollination
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.
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Kali
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms
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Oliver Goldsmith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.
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Catherine of Aragon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
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Sir John Soane
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.
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Pope Joan
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.
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Socrates in Prison
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.
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The Battle of Valmy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
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Slime Moulds
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.
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Vase-mania
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.
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Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work
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The Habitability of Planets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.
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Nizami Ganjavi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.
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The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
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Italo Calvino
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist
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The Antikythera Mechanism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
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George Herbert
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
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The Venetian Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
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Little Women
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters
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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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Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
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The Haymarket Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
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Wormholes
Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
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Bacteriophages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
