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In Our Time Episodes

  1. While you wait: The Death of Reading (from The Global Story)

    While you wait for the new series of In Our Time, we bring you The Global Story.

  2. Welcoming Misha Glenny

    Misha Glenny introduces himself as he prepares for his first episode of In Our Time.

  3. Walter Benjamin (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century

  4. Vincent Van Gogh (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.

  5. Vincent van Gogh (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights

  6. Venus (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin

  7. Utilitarianism (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.

  8. Tutankhamun (Archive Episode)

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

  9. Tutankhamun (Archive Episode)

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

  10. Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Summer Repeat)

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

  11. Titus Oates and his "Popish Plot" (summer repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot

  12. Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded

  13. Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.

  14. Thomas Hardy's Poetry

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.

  15. The Waltz (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.

  16. The Waltz (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.

  17. The Valladolid Debate (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans

  18. The Treaty of Limerick (Summer Repeat)

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

  19. The Time Machine (Archive Episode)

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

  20. The Sistine Chapel (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome

  21. The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the liquid qualities of brittle glass

  22. The Russo-Japanese War (Summer Repeat)

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

  23. The Rapture (Summer Repeat)

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

  24. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Summer Repeat)

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

  25. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.

  26. The Moon (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon.

  27. The Moon

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon.

  28. The Lancashire Cotton Famine (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Lancashire Cotton Famine

  29. The Interregnum (Summer Repeat)

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

  30. The Iliad (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War

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