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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Siege of Paris 1870-71

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune

  2. Catullus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

  3. Tutankhamun

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed

  4. Auden

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

  5. Coffee

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact

  6. Lawrence of Arabia

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

  7. Li Shizhen

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

  8. Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

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

  9. Crime and Punishment

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

  10. The Treaty of Limerick

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

  11. Hybrids

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

  12. Robert Burns

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

  13. The Time Machine

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

  14. Rousseau on Education

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

  15. Dorothy Hodgkin

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

  16. The Rapture

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

  17. Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow

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

  18. Lorca

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

  19. Doggerland

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

  20. The Mytilenaean Debate

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

  21. The Inca

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

  22. Sir Thomas Browne

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

  23. President Ulysses S Grant

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

  24. Kinetic Theory

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

  25. Frankenstein

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

  26. Bergson and Time

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

  27. The Gordon Riots

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

  28. Nero

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

  29. A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

  30. The Evolution of Teeth

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

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