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Learn about author Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and power of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
Megaliths are huge stones placed in prominent positions in the landscape. But why?
Nine facts abouts one of history’s most notorious and eccentric leaders.
How do birds migrate 15,00km back to the same place?
Helen Nianias considers the funerary props and practices used in ancient Egypt.
Helen Nianias reflects on the popularity of Hokusai's Great Wave.
Helen Nianias moves from sausage jokes to reflecting on an ancient sea battle.
Helen Nianias on the rise of mammals and apes, and why crocodiles lived at the Poles.
Helen Nianias considers the impact of Elizabeth Gaskell and her protagonist Margaret Hale.
Helen Nianias explains that virtue, according to Seneca, was about how you lead your life.
Mathematics in the early Islamic world could be seen as its own system of faith.
Helen Nianias considers the life and work of the greatest labouring-class poet.
The top ten programmes as suggested by In Our Time's audience, to mark the 750th edition.
How relevant is Arendt's newly popular 1951 book, The Origins of Totalitarianism?
Parasites feed on us, can destroy us and yet strengthen us at the same time.
Helen Nianias reflects on the strength and vulnerability of the 16th-century monarch.
Martineau is seen as obscure but she did more than most people would in five lifetimes.
Gin’s all the rage. But the trend is small beer compared with the Gin Craze of the 1700s.
An In Our Time highlight things that readers may have missed in Orwell's novel.
Answers to your questions about In Our Time - on air and online.
Neutrons play a fundamental role in the universe. Here are five facts about them.
Some of the fascinating things we have learned about time from listening to In Our Time.
The In Our Time guide to one of the best-known figures in the Bible.
How much do you know about your circadian rhythms?
Do you have the looks, presence or spirit that could help define an artist’s career?
