News
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic. Read more
now playing
The Ramayana
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Mercantilism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
Solon the Lawgiver
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
A Room of One's Own
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
Cnut
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.
The Battle of Crécy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of and England
Linnaeus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
Walt Whitman
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
The Shimabara Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.
Virgil's Georgics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
Louis XIV: The Sun King
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles
Mitochondria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
Oedipus Rex
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
Death in Venice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
Elizabeth Anscombe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.
Jupiter
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.
Albert Einstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.
Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain
To mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain.
The Seventh Seal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
Plankton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
The Federalist Papers
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
Julian of Norwich
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
Germinal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.
The Barbary Corsairs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
Marguerite de Navarre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
Edgar Allan Poe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
Karl Barth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
