BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

The Calendar

Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.

Melvyn Bragg examines how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history.

Melvyn Bragg examines the emergence and impact of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Melvyn Bragg investigates the creatives forces of the imagination.

Melvyn Bragg examines Muslim Spain, from Cordoba’s golden age to the fall of Granada.

Melvyn Bragg explores Victorian realism and its focus on the ordinariness of life.

Melvyn Bragg examines whether our natures are innate or defined by unbringing.

Melvyn Bragg explores the ideas architecture expresses about our past and identity.

Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.

Melvyn Bragg examines British imperialism and its captives, both slaves and Britons.