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In Our Time Episodes

  1.

    A Christmas Carol

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.

  2. The May Fourth Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.

  3. The Battle of Trafalgar

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.

  4. Plato's Gorgias

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's exploration of the nature of power and freedom.

  5. The Decadent Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.

  6. William and Caroline Herschel

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy

  7. The Song of Roland

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.

  8. Corals

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.

  9. Iris Murdoch

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.

  10. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.

  11. The Manhattan Project

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2

  12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.

  13. Herodotus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.

  14. The Evolution of Crocodiles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.

  15. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English

  16. Edward Gibbon

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

  17. Booth's Life and Labour Survey

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.

  18. Kant's Copernican Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.

  19. The Interregnum

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles

  20. Journey to the West

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.

  21. Longitude

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.

  22. The Second Barons' War

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces

  23. Ovid

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.

  24. The Franco-American Alliance 1778

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact

  25. Arianism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.

  26. Pierre-Simon Laplace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.

  27. The Russo-Japanese War

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.

  28. David Ricardo

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars

  29. The Bacchae

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.

  30. The Late Devonian Extinction

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.

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