In Our Time Episodes Available now
Dragons
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this ubiquitous mythical creature.
Barbour's 'Brus'
How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.
The Evolution of Lungs
From the mechanics of the first breaths on Earth to the reason we hiccup.
The Vienna Secession
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.
Hypnosis
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.
Paul von Hindenburg
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
Copyright
The evolution of copyright.
Lise Meitner
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
