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In Our Time Episodes

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    Paul Erd艖s

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.

  2. Stevie Smith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning

  3. Chartism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.

  4. Tycho Brahe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

  5. Superconductivity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.

  6. Rawls' Theory of Justice

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.

  7. John Donne

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.

  8. The Great Stink

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.

  9. Persuasion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.

  10. Citizen Kane

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.

  11. The Irish Rebellion of 1798

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.

  12. The Nibelungenlied

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.

  13. The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.

  14. Demosthenes' Philippics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.

  15. Bauhaus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.

  16. The Morant Bay Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.

  17. Wilfred Owen

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.

  18. The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

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

  19. Berthe Morisot

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism

  20. The Knights Templar

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.

  21. The Electron

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.

  22. Plato's Atlantis

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.

  23. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.

  24. John Bull

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure

  25. Angkor Wat

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.

  26. Dylan Thomas

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer

  27. The Death of Stars

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life

  28. Hegel's Philosophy of History

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.

  29. Comenius

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.

  30. Tang Era Poetry

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.

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