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In Our Time Episodes

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    John Clare

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.

  2. Hannah Arendt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

  3. Parasitism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another

  4. Mary, Queen of Scots

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots.

  5. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.

  6. Johannes Kepler

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.

  7. Four Quartets

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.

  8. The Gin Craze

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century.

  9. Harriet Martineau

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.

  10. Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.

  11. Baltic Crusades

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.

  12. Justinian's Legal Code

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great impact of legal changes under emperor Justinian.

  13. The Fighting Temeraire

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.

  14. Epic of Gilgamesh

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.

  15. John Dalton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.

  16. The 12th Century Renaissance

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.

  17. Plasma

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.

  18. Lakshmi

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the goddess Lakshmi.

  19. Animal Farm

    All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  20. Zeno's Paradoxes

    Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno

  21. The Invention of Photography

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.

  22. Sovereignty

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.

  23. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

  24. The Bronze Age Collapse

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bronze Age collapse.

  25. Penicillin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.

  26. Margery Kempe and English Mysticism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.

  27. The Gettysburg Address

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863.

  28. The Muses

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.

  29. Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'

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

  30. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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