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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Library at Nineveh

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.

  2. The Brain

    The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.

  3. The Enclosures of the 18th Century

    Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.

  4. Materialism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.

  5. Yeats and Irish Politics

    Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.

  6. The Norman Yoke

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 鈥榯he Norman Yoke'.

  7. The Laws of Motion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton鈥檚 Laws of Motion.

  8. The Dissolution of the Monasteries

    Melvyn Bragg examines Henry VIII's policy of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

  9. Kierkegaard

    Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

  10. The Greek Myths

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.

  11. Ada Lovelace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian 鈥榚nchantress of numbers鈥�.

  12. Lear

    Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare鈥檚 bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.

  13. The Multiverse

    Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.

  14. The Statue of Liberty

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .

  15. The Social Contract

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.

  16. Rudolph II

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.

  17. Plate Tectonics

    Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.

  18. The Fisher King

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.

  19. The Charge of the Light Brigade

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Charge of the Light Brigade.

  20. Camus

    The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.

  21. The Nicene Creed

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nicene Creed which established the Divinity of Christ.

  22. The Four Humours

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.

  23. The Sassanid Empire

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Sassanian Empire in Persia from the 3rd to the 7th century AD.

  24. Genetic Mutation

    Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.

  25. The Fibonacci Sequence

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.

  26. The Prelude

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Wordsworth鈥檚 poem, The Prelude.

  27. Oxygen

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.

  28. Avicenna

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Persian Islamic philosopher Avicenna.

  29. Guilt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests take a long hard look at the idea of guilt.

  30. Taste

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th century obsession with taste.

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