Browse the 20th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, work and life of Simone de Beauvoir.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
Melvyn Bragg considers the relevance of the study of history in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.