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In Our Time Episodes

    Hope

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?

    Horace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.

    Marie Antoinette

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.

    Free Radicals

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing

    The Fable of the Bees

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.

    Is Shakespeare History? The Romans

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).

    Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)

    Edith Wharton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler

    Automata

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.

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