In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
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Bird Migration
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
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Bergson and Time (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas on our experience of time passing
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Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards
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Automata (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
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Authenticity (Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
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Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity
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Auden (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
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1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.