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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Waste Land and Modernity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.

  2. The Observatory at Jaipur

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.

  3. Carthage's Destruction

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage

  4. The Brothers Grimm

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

  5. Swift's A Modest Proposal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal

  6. History of History

    Melvyn Bragg examines how the writing of history has changed over the years.

  7. Thoreau and the American Idyll

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

  9. The Consolations of Philosophy

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the consolation of Philosophy.

  10. The Physics of Time

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.

  11. The Fire of London

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.

  12. Heat

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.

  13. The Great Reform Act

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.

  14. The Baroque Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.

  15. Neuroscience

    Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.

  16. Aristotle's Politics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle鈥檚 鈥楶olitics鈥�.

  17. Bolivar

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.

  18. Dante's Inferno

    Melvyn Bragg examines Dante鈥檚 鈥業nferno鈥�, a medieval journey through Hell鈥檚 nine circles

  19. Vitalism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.

  20. Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.

  21. The Translation Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.

  22. Miracles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of miracles.

  23. Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome

    Melvyn Bragg examines the life and chronicles of the the Roman historian Tacitus.

  24. The Metaphysical Poets

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.

  25. The Arab Conquests

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Arab conquests which helped communicate Islam to the world.

  26. The Music of the Spheres

    Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.

  27. The Riddle of the Sands

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.

  28. Lysenkoism

    Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.

  29. Probability

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.

  30. The Black Death

    Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the Black Death and its effect on medieval society.

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