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In Our Time Episodes

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    Octavia Hill

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill.

  2. The Bhagavad Gita

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bhagavad Gita, a key text of Hinduism.

  3. The Iron Age

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the dawn of the Iron Age.

  4. The Medieval University

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.

  5. Free Will

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.

  6. The Age of the Universe

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.

  7. The Taiping Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.

  8. Maimonides

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides.

  9. The Nervous System

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.

  10. The Battle of Bannockburn

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn.

  11. Aristotle's Poetics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics.

  12. The Mexican Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

  13. Random and Pseudorandom

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.

  14. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

  15. Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.

  16. The Industrial Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.

  17. Daoism

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.

  18. Thomas Edison

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.

  19. Cleopatra

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra, the famed last pharaoh of Egypt.

  20. History of Metaphor

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of metaphor.

  21. Foxe's Book of Martyrs

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

  22. The Volga Vikings

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings.

  23. Women and Enlightenment Science

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.

  24. The Unicorn

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.

  25. Logic

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.

  26. Sturm und Drang

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.

  27. The Spanish Armada

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Spanish Armada.

  28. The Delphic Oracle

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle.

  29. Imaginary Numbers

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers.

  30. Pliny's Natural History

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias.

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