In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

Parasitism (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between parasites and hosts, where one species...

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Cave Art (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about the Stone Age people who created the extraordinary...

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the republic that emerged from the union of the Kingdom of Poland...

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Kant's Copernican Revolution (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the insight into our relationship with the world that Immanuel...

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The Russo-Japanese War (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the conflict between Russia and Japan from February 1904 to...

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The Bacchae (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in...

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Eclipses (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar eclipses, some of life’s most extraordinary moments, when...

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Mary Astell (Summer Repeat)

The philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731) has been described as “the first English feminist”....

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The Interregnum (Summer Repeat)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the period between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the...

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John Bull

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and...

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Angkor Wat

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure...

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Dylan Thomas

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). He wrote...

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The Death of Stars

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the abrupt transformation of stars after shining brightly for...

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the collection of poems published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe:...

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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Repeat)

In a programme first broadcast in 2021, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the collection of poems...

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Hegel's Philosophy of History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) on history....

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Comenius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670) known throughout...

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Tang Era Poetry

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss two of China’s greatest poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, who wrote in the...

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The Davidian Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and...

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Early Christian Martyrdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of...

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