Lysistrata
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
- 50 mins
- 11 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - In Our Time - Available Episodes
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Episodes (1026 Available)
- Nikola Tesla
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Serbian-American inventor.
- 52 mins
- 04 Apr 2024
- The Kalevala
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
- 50 mins
- 28 Mar 2024
- Julian the Apostate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
- 50 mins
- 21 Mar 2024
- The Waltz
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
- 52 mins
- 14 Mar 2024
- The Mokrani Revolt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
- 57 mins
- 07 Mar 2024
- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics
- 58 mins
- 29 Feb 2024
- The Sack of Rome 1527
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
- 46 mins
- 22 Feb 2024
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
- 49 mins
- 15 Feb 2024
- Hormones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work
- 50 mins
- 08 Feb 2024
- The Hanseatic League
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
- 49 mins
- 01 Feb 2024
- Panpsychism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.
- 54 mins
- 25 Jan 2024
- Nefertiti
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
- 49 mins
- 18 Jan 2024
- Condorcet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the last great figures of the Enlightenment.
- 50 mins
- 11 Jan 2024
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.
- 53 mins
- 28 Dec 2023
- Vincent van Gogh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
- 56 mins
- 21 Dec 2023
- Tiberius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
- 53 mins
- 14 Dec 2023
- Karl Barth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
- 55 mins
- 07 Dec 2023
- Edgar Allan Poe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
- 58 mins
- 30 Nov 2023
- Marguerite de Navarre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
- 46 mins
- 23 Nov 2023