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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Mexican-American War

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.

  2. Echolocation

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.

  3. Montesquieu

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.

  4. Persepolis

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Achaemenid Empire's great ceremonial capital.

  5. Henrik Ibsen

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.

  6. Margaret of Anjou

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Queen of England at the start of the Wars of the Roses

  7. The Emancipation of the Serfs

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.

  8. The Mabinogion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.

  9. The Almoravid Empire

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great empires of the Islamic west.

  10. The Proton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.

  11. Middlemarch

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.

  12. George and Robert Stephenson

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.

  13. Roman Slavery

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between slavery and the power of Rome.

  14. Tocqueville: Democracy in America

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.

  15. Augustine's Confessions

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.

  16. The Highland Clearances

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  17. Sun Tzu and The Art of War

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.

  18. Rosalind Franklin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.

  19. Fungi

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.

  20. Frederick Douglass

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.

  21. Cephalopods

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.

  22. Cicero

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

  23. Anna Akhmatova

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.

  24. The Siege of Malta, 1565

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.

  25. Hamlet

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.

  26. Beethoven

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

  27. Thomas Becket

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)

  28. Moby Dick

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.

  29. Carl Friedrich Gauss

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.

  30. Thebes

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek city of Thebes in myth, drama and history.

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