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In Our Time Episodes

  1. Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat)

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

  2. Emily Dickinson (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.

  3. Elizabeth Anscombe (Summer Repeat)

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

  4. Edward Gibbon (Summer Repeat)

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

  5. Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat)

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

  6. Eclipses (Summer Repeat)

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

  7. Eclipses (Archive Episode)

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

  8. Echolocation (Summer Repeat)

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

  9. Doggerland (Summer Repeat)

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

  10. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Summer Repeat)

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

  11. Dickens (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens.

  12. Demosthenes' Philippics (Archive Episode)

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

  13. Demosthenes' Philippics (Archive Episode)

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

  14. Corals (Summer Repeat)

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

  15. Colette (Summer Repeat)

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

  16. Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our body clocks

  17. Charisma (Summer Repeat)

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

  18. Cave Art (Summer Repeat)

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

  19. Catullus (Summer Repeat)

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

  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss (repeat)

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

  21. Bird Migration (Archive Episode)

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

  22. Bird Migration

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

  23. Bergson and Time (Summer Repeat)

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

  24. Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)

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

  25. Automata (Summer Repeat)

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

  26. Authenticity (Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  27. Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)

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

  28. Auden (Summer Repeat)

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

  29. Archive:Empress Dowager Cixi

    Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: China’s powerful Empress Dowager Cixi.

  30. Archive: Hatshepsut

    Misha Glenny picks an episode from In Our Time’s archive: the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.

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