In Our Time

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

Radio 4,1103 episodes

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Condorcet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.
11 Jan 2024,50 mins
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.
28 Dec 2023,53 mins
Vincent van Gogh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
21 Dec 2023,56 mins
Tiberius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
14 Dec 2023,53 mins
Karl Barth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
07 Dec 2023,55 mins
Edgar Allan Poe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
30 Nov 2023,58 mins
Marguerite de Navarre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
23 Nov 2023,46 mins
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
16 Nov 2023,55 mins
The Barbary Corsairs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language
09 Nov 2023,52 mins
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.
02 Nov 2023,52 mins
Germinal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
26 Oct 2023,51 mins
Julian of Norwich
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
19 Oct 2023,50 mins
The Federalist Papers
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
12 Oct 2023,50 mins
Plankton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
05 Oct 2023,48 mins
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
28 Sep 2023,50 mins
The Seventh Seal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
21 Sep 2023,50 mins
Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain
To mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain.
21 Sep 2023,11 mins
Albert Einstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.
14 Sep 2023,49 mins
Jupiter
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.
29 Jun 2023,53 mins
Elizabeth Anscombe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.
22 Jun 2023,54 mins
Death in Venice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
15 Jun 2023,48 mins
Oedipus Rex
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
08 Jun 2023,54 mins
Mitochondria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
01 Jun 2023,52 mins
Louis XIV: The Sun King
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
25 May 2023,47 mins
Virgil's Georgics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
18 May 2023,49 mins
The Shimabara Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
11 May 2023,48 mins
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
04 May 2023,48 mins
Walt Whitman
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
27 Apr 2023,49 mins
Linnaeus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
20 Apr 2023,50 mins
The Battle of Crécy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England
13 Apr 2023,50 mins