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In Our Time Episodes

  1. Corals (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.

  2. Colette (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century

  3. Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our body clocks

  4. Charisma (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership

  5. Cave Art (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.

  6. Catullus (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

  7. Carl Friedrich Gauss (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.

  8. Bird Migration

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

  9. Bergson and Time (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas on our experience of time passing

  10. Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards

  11. Automata (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.

  12. Authenticity (Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  13. Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity

  14. Auden (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

  15. 1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.

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