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In Our Time Episodes

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    Cnut

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.

  2. A Room of One's Own

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.

  3. Solon the Lawgiver

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC

  4. Mercantilism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.

  5. The Ramayana

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.

  6. Megaliths

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.

  7. Paul Erd艖s

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.

  8. Stevie Smith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning

  9. Chartism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.

  10. Tycho Brahe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

  11. Superconductivity

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.

  12. Rawls' Theory of Justice

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.

  13. John Donne

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.

  14. The Great Stink

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.

  15. Persuasion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.

  16. Citizen Kane

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.

  17. The Irish Rebellion of 1798

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.

  18. The Nibelungenlied

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.

  19. The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.

  20. Demosthenes' Philippics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that set the standard for political attacks.

  21. Bauhaus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.

  22. The Morant Bay Rebellion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.

  23. Wilfred Owen

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.

  24. The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.

  25. Berthe Morisot

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism

  26. The Knights Templar

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and abrupt fall of the famous military order.

  27. The Electron

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.

  28. Plato's Atlantis

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's story of the great, lost island of Atlantis.

  29. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.

  30. John Bull

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure

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