In Our Time Episodes Available now
The Manhattan Project
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
Herodotus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
The Evolution of Crocodiles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
Edward Gibbon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Booth's Life and Labour Survey
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.
Kant's Copernican Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
The Interregnum
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles
Journey to the West
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.
