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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Hanseatic League

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.

  2. Panpsychism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.

  3. Nefertiti

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.

  4. Condorcet

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.

  5. Twelfth Night, or What You Will

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.

  6. Vincent van Gogh

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.

  7. Tiberius

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.

  8. Karl Barth

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.

  9. Edgar Allan Poe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.

  10. Marguerite de Navarre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.

  11. The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.

  12. The Barbary Corsairs

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language

  13. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.

  14. Germinal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.

  15. Julian of Norwich

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.

  16. The Federalist Papers

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.

  17. Plankton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.

  18. The Economic Consequences of the Peace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles

  19. The Seventh Seal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death

  20. Albert Einstein

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.

  21. Jupiter

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.

  22. Elizabeth Anscombe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.

  23. Death in Venice

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.

  24. Oedipus Rex

    Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written

  25. Mitochondria

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.

  26. Louis XIV: The Sun King

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles

  27. Virgil's Georgics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life

  28. The Shimabara Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.

  29. The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.

  30. Walt Whitman

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.

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