In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

Marcus Aurelius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, according to Machiavelli, was the last of the Five...

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Medieval Pilgrimage

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea and experience of Christian pilgrimage in Europe from...

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The Rosetta Stone

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most famous museum objects in the world, shown in the...

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Emilie du Châtelet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding French mathematicians and natural...

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Saint Cuthbert

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Northumbrian man who, for 500 years, was the pre-eminent...

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The Plague of Justinian

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the plague that broke out in Constantinople 541AD, in the reign...

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The Great Gatsby

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss F Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, published in 1925, one of the...

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Eclipses

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

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The Cultural Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from...

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John Wesley and Methodism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Wesley (1703 - 1791) and the movement he was to lead and...

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Fernando Pessoa

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Portuguese poet Pessoa (1888-1935) who was largely unknown in...

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The Zong Massacre

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notorious events off Jamaica in 1781 and their background....

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Authenticity (Repeat)

In a programme first broadcast in 2019, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be...

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Albrecht Dürer

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) who achieved...

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Mary Astell

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

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Piers Plowman

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's poem, written around 1370, about a man called...

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Maria Theresa

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maria Theresa (1717-1780) who inherited the Austrian throne in...

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Alan Turing

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alan Turing (1912-1954) whose 1936 paper On Computable Numbers...

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Deism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that God created the universe and then left it for...

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Macbeth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When three witches...

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