In Our Time

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

Radio 4,1103 episodes

Episodes

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Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
17 Oct 2024,50 mins
Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
10 Oct 2024,54 mins
The Haymarket Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
03 Oct 2024,51 mins
Wormholes
Melvyn Bragg and guests test the idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies.
26 Sep 2024,60 mins
Benjamin Disraeli
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
19 Sep 2024,51 mins
Bacteriophages
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses
04 Jul 2024,50 mins
Monet in England
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
27 Jun 2024,50 mins
Karma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
20 Jun 2024,50 mins
Fielding's Tom Jones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
13 Jun 2024,54 mins
The Orkneyinga Saga
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
06 Jun 2024,51 mins
Marsilius of Padua
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
30 May 2024,56 mins
Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
23 May 2024,50 mins
Philippa Foot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
16 May 2024,58 mins
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
09 May 2024,58 mins
Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to our Sun.
02 May 2024,53 mins
Bertolt Brecht
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
25 Apr 2024,59 mins
Napoleon's Hundred Days
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
18 Apr 2024,58 mins
Lysistrata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
11 Apr 2024,55 mins
Nikola Tesla
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.
04 Apr 2024,52 mins
The Kalevala
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
28 Mar 2024,50 mins
Julian the Apostate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
21 Mar 2024,50 mins
The Waltz
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
14 Mar 2024,52 mins
The Mokrani Revolt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
07 Mar 2024,57 mins
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics
29 Feb 2024,58 mins
The Sack of Rome 1527
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
22 Feb 2024,46 mins
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
15 Feb 2024,49 mins
Hormones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work
08 Feb 2024,50 mins
The Hanseatic League
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
01 Feb 2024,49 mins
Panpsychism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.
25 Jan 2024,54 mins
Nefertiti
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
18 Jan 2024,49 mins