In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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The Great Irish Famine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
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The Danelaw
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
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Authenticity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
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William Cecil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.
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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
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Pheromones
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
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Judith beheading Holofernes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
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Aristotle's Biology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
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Owain Glyndwr
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fight for Welsh independence in the early 15th century
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Emmy Noether
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
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Samuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
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Papal Infallibility
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
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Venus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
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The Poor Laws
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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The Thirty Years War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
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The Long March
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
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Hope
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
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Horace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
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Marie Antoinette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
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Free Radicals
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
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The Fable of the Bees
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
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Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
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Automata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
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The Iliad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
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William Morris
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
