In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week

05 Dec 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty

28 Nov 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem

21 Nov 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....

14 Nov 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691

07 Nov 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce

31 Oct 2019,·50 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).

24 Oct 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

17 Oct 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children

10 Oct 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

03 Oct 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.

26 Sep 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.

19 Sep 2019,·54 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.

04 Jul 2019,·53 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.

27 Jun 2019,·54 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.

20 Jun 2019,·54 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived

13 Jun 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times

06 Jun 2019,·52 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War

30 May 2019,·55 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.

23 May 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life

16 May 2019,·55 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing

09 May 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.

02 May 2019,·50 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.

25 Apr 2019,·51 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays

18 Apr 2019,·54 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.

11 Apr 2019,·49 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.

04 Apr 2019,·57 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.

28 Mar 2019,·50 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

21 Mar 2019,·47 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

14 Mar 2019,·50 mins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.

07 Mar 2019,·51 mins