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In Our Time Episodes

  1. Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem

  2. Mary, Queen of Scots

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

  3. Mary Astell (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 鈥� 1731).

  4. Marie Antoinette (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.

  5. Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Summer Repeat)

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

  6. Kant's Copernican Revolution (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.

  7. Kant's Categorical Imperative (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.

  8. John Clare

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

  9. Jane Eyre (Summer Repeat)

    Charlotte Bront毛's story of Jane Eyre, governess, and Mr Rochester, master of Thornfield

  10. In Our Time is now first on 蜜芽传媒 Sounds

    New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.

  11. Hope (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?

  12. Hildegard of Bingen (Repeat)

    With no new programme scheduled today, here's Hildegard of Bingen (Rpt)

  13. Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat)

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

  14. Hannah Arendt

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

  15. George Sand (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work

  16. George and Robert Stephenson (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.

  17. Fritz Lang (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.

  18. Free Will (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.

  19. Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery

  20. Frederick Douglass

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery

  21. Four Quartets (Summer Repeat)

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

  22. Feathered Dinosaurs (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.

  23. Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians

  24. Elizabeth Anscombe (Summer Repeat)

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

  25. Edward Gibbon (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  26. Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age

  27. Eclipses (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.

  28. Echolocation (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.

  29. Doggerland (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea

  30. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler

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