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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Knights Templar

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

  2. The Electron

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

  3. Plato's Atlantis

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

  4. Nineteen Eighty-Four

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

  5. John Bull

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

  6. Angkor Wat

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

  7. Dylan Thomas

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

  8. The Death of Stars

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

  9. Hegel's Philosophy of History

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

  10. Comenius

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

  11. Tang Era Poetry

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

  12. The Davidian Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153

  13. Early Christian Martyrdom

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.

  14. Olympe de Gouges

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791

  15. Homo erectus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.

  16. Polidori's The Vampyre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales

  17. The Sistine Chapel

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.

  18. Antigone

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.

  19. Charisma

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership

  20. Seismology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.

  21. The Arthashastra

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.

  22. Peter Kropotkin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid

  23. Romeo and Juliet

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona

  24. Walter Benjamin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.

  25. The Temperance Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.

  26. Colette

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.

  27. The Gold Standard

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold

  28. Thomas Hardy's Poetry

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.

  29. Fritz Lang

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.

  30. The Hittites

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.

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