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In Our Time

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by Melvyn Bragg

30 OCTOBER 2008

  Simón Bolívar

  6 NOVEMBER 2008

  Aristotle’s Politics

  13 NOVEMBER 2008

  Neuroscience

  20 NOVEMBER 2008

  The Baroque

  27 NOVEMBER 2008

  The Great Reform Act

  4 DECEMBER 2008

  Heat: A History

  11 DECEMBER 2008

  The Great Fire of London

  18 DECEMBER 2008

  The Physics of Time

  1 JANUARY 2009

  The Consolation of Philosophy

  5 JANUARY 2009

  Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin

  6 JANUARY 2009

  Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle

  7 JANUARY 2009

  Darwin: On the Origin of Species

  8 JANUARY 2009

  Darwin: Life After Origins

  15 JANUARY 2009

  Thoreau and the American Idyll

  22 JANUARY 2009

  A History of History

  29 JANUARY 2009

  A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

  5 FEBRUARY 2009

  The Brothers Grimm

  12 FEBRUARY 2009

  The Destruction of Carthage

  19 FEBRUARY 2009

  The Observatory at Jaipur

  26 FEBRUARY 2009

  The Waste Land and Modernity

  5 MARCH 2009

  The Measurement Problem in Physics

  12 MARCH 2009

  The Library of Alexandria

  19 MARCH 2009

  The Boxer Rebellion

  26 MARCH 2009

  The School of Athens

  2 APRIL 2009

  Baconian Science

  9 APRIL 2009

  Brave New World

  16 APRIL 2009

  Suffragism

  23 APRIL 2009

  The Building of St Petersburg

  30 APRIL 2009

  The Vacuum of Space

  7 MAY 2009

  Magna Carta

  14 MAY 2009

  The Siege of Vienna

  21 MAY 2009

  The Whale

  28 MAY 2009

  Saint Paul

  4 JUNE 2009

  The Trial of Charles I

  11 JUNE 2009

  The Augustan Age

  18 JUNE 2009

  Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy

  25 JUNE 2009

  The Sunni-Shia Split

  2 JULY 2009

  Logical Positivism

  9 JULY 2009

  Ediacara Biota

  17 SEPTEMBER 2009

  St Thomas Aquinas

  24 SEPTEMBER 2009

  Leibniz vs Newton

  1 OCTOBER 2009

  Akhenaten

  8 OCTOBER 2009

  The Dreyfuss Affair

  15 OCTOBER 2009

  The Death of Elizabeth I

  22 OCTOBER 2009

  The Geological Formation of Britain

  29 OCTOBER 2009

  Schopenhauer

  5 NOVEMBER 2009

  The Siege of Münster

  12 NOVEMBER 2009

  The Discovery of Radiation

  19 NOVEMBER 2009

  Sparta

  26 NOVEMBER 2009

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  3 DECEMBER 2009

  The Silk Road

  10 DECEMBER 2009

  Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

  24 DECEMBER 2009

  The Samurai

  31 DECEMBER 2009

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  14 JANUARY 2010

  The Frankfurt School

  21 JANUARY 2010

  The Glencoe Massacre

  28 JANUARY 2010

  Silas Marner

  4 FEBRUARY 2010

  Ibn Khaldun

  11 FEBRUARY 2010

  The Unintended Consequences of Mathematics

  18 FEBRUARY 2010

  The Indian Rebellion

  25 FEBRUARY 2010

  Calvinism

  4 MARCH 2010

  The Infant Brain

  11 MARCH 2010

  Boudica

  18 MARCH 2010

  The Scream and Edvard Munch

  25 MARCH 2010

  The History of the City (1 of 2)

  1 APRIL 2010

  The History of the City (2 of 2)

  8 APRIL 2010

  William Hazlitt

  15 APRIL 2010

  The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation

  22 APRIL 2010

  Roman Satire

  29 APRIL 2010

  The Great Wall of China

  6 MAY 2010

  The Cool Universe

  13 MAY 2010

  The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

  20 MAY 2010

  The Cavendish Family

  27 MAY 2010

  Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists

  3 JUNE 2010

  Edmund Burke

  10 JUNE 2010

  Al-Biruni

  17 JUNE 2010

  The Neanderthals

  24 JUNE 2010

  Antarctica

  1 JULY 2010

  Athelstan

  8 JULY 2010

  Pliny’s Natural History

  23 SEPTEMBER 2010

  Imaginary Numbers

  30 SEPTEMBER 2010

  The Delphic Oracle

  7 OCTOBER 2010

  The Spanish Armada

  14 OCTOBER 2010

  Sturm und Drang

  21 OCTOBER 2010

  History of Logic

  28 OCTOBER 2010

  The Unicorn

  4 NOVEMBER 2010

  Women and Enlightenment Science

  11 NOVEMBER 2010

  The Volga Vikings

  18 NOVEMBER 2010

  Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

  25 NOVEMBER 2010

  The History of Metaphor

  2 DECEMBER 2010

  Cleopatra

  9 DECEMBER 2010

  Thomas Edison

  16 DECEMBER 2010

  Daoism

  23 DECEMBER 2010

  The Industrial Revolution

  30 DECEMBER 2010

  Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

  6 JANUARY 2011

  Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

  13 JANUARY 2011

  Random and Pseudorandom

  20 JANUARY 2011

  The Mexican Revolution

  27 JANUARY 2011

  Aristotle’s Poetics

  3 FEBRUARY 2011

  The Battle of Bannockburn

  10 FEBRUARY 2011

  The Nervous System

  17 FEBRUARY 2011

  Maimonides

  24 FEBRUARY 2011

  The Taiping Rebellion

  3 MARCH 2011

  The Age of the Universe

  10 MARCH 2011

  Free Will (500th programme)

  17 MARCH 2011

  The Medieval University

  24 MARCH 2011

  The Dawn of the Iron Age

  31 MARCH 2011

  The Bhagavad Gita

  7 APRIL 2011

  Octavia Hill

  14 APRIL 2011

  The Neutrino

  21 APRIL 2011

  The Pelagian Controversy

  28 APRIL 2011

  Cogito Ergo Sum

  5 MAY 2011

  Islamic Law and its Origins

  12 MAY 2011

  The Anatomy of Melancholy

  19 MAY 2011

  Custer’s Last Stand

  26 MAY 2011

  Xenophon

  2 JUNE 2011

  Battle of Stamford Bridge

  9 JUNE 2011

  The Origins of Infectious Disease

  16 JUNE 2011

  John Wycliffe and the Lollards

  23 JUNE 2011

  Malthusianism

  30 JUNE 2011

  Tennyson’s In Memoriam


  7 JULY 2011

  The Minoan Civilisation

  15 SEPTEMBER 2011

  The Hippocratic Oath

  22 SEPTEMBER 2011

  Shinto

  29 SEPTEMBER 2011

  The Etruscan Civilisation

  6 OCTOBER 2011

  David Hume

  13 OCTOBER 2011

  The Ming Voyages

  20 OCTOBER 2011

  Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People

  27 OCTOBER 2011

  The Siege of Tenochtitlan

  3 NOVEMBER 2011

  The Moon

  10 NOVEMBER 2011

  The Continental–Analytic Split

  17 NOVEMBER 2011

  Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy

  24 NOVEMBER 2011

  Judas Maccabeus

  1 DECEMBER 2011

  Christina Rossetti

  8 DECEMBER 2011

  Heraclitus

  15 DECEMBER 2011

  The Concordat of Worms

  22 DECEMBER 2011

  Robinson Crusoe

  29 DECEMBER 2011

  Macromolecules

  12 JANUARY 2012

  The Safavid Dynasty

  19 JANUARY 2012

  1848: Year of Revolution

  26 JANUARY 2012

  The Scientific Method

  2 FEBRUARY 2012

  The Kama Sutra

  9 FEBRUARY 2012

  Erasmus

  16 FEBRUARY 2012

  The An Lushan Rebellion

  23 FEBRUARY 2012

  Conductors and Semiconductors

  1 MARCH 2012

  Benjamin Franklin

  8 MARCH 2012

  Lyrical Ballads

  15 MARCH 2012

  Vitruvius and De Architectura

  22 MARCH 2012

  Moses Mendelssohn

  29 MARCH 2012

  The Measurement of Time

  5 APRIL 2012

  George Fox and the Quakers

  12 APRIL 2012

  Early Geology

  19 APRIL 2012

  Neoplatonism

  26 APRIL 2012

  Battle of Bosworth Field

  3 MAY 2012

  Voltaire’s Candide

  10 MAY 2012

  Game Theory

  17 MAY 2012

  Clausewitz and On War

  24 MAY 2012

  Marco Polo

  31 MAY 2012

  The Trojan War

  7 JUNE 2012

  King Solomon

  14 JUNE 2012

  James Joyce’s Ulysses

  21 JUNE 2012

  Annie Besant

  28 JUNE 2012

  Al-Kindi

  5 JULY 2012

  Scepticism

  12 JULY 2012

  Hadrian’s Wall

  13 SEPTEMBER 2012

  The Cell

  20 SEPTEMBER 2012

  The Druids

  27 SEPTEMBER 2012

  The Ontological Argument

  4 OCTOBER 2012

  Gerald of Wales

  11 OCTOBER 2012

  Hannibal

  18 OCTOBER 2012

  Caxton and the Printing Press

  25 OCTOBER 2012

  Fermat’s Last Theorem

  1 NOVEMBER 2012

  The Anarchy

  8 NOVEMBER 2012

  The Upanishads

  15 NOVEMBER 2012

  Simone Weil

  22 NOVEMBER 2012

  The Borgias

  29 NOVEMBER 2012

  Crystallography

  6 DECEMBER 2012

  Bertrand Russell

  13 DECEMBER 2012

  Shahnameh of Ferdowsi

  20 DECEMBER 2012

  The South Sea Bubble

  27 DECEMBER 2012

  The Cult of Mithras

  10 JANUARY 2013

  Le Morte d’Arthur

  17 JANUARY 2013

  Comets

  24 JANUARY 2013

  Romulus and Remus

  31 JANUARY 2013

  The War of 1812

  7 FEBRUARY 2013

  Epicureanism

  14 FEBRUARY 2013

  Ice Ages

  21 FEBRUARY 2013

  Decline and Fall

  28 FEBRUARY 2013

  Pitt Rivers

  7 MARCH 2013

  Absolute Zero

  14 MARCH 2013

  Chekhov

  21 MARCH 2013

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  28 MARCH 2013

  Water

  4 APRIL 2013

  Japan’s Sakoku Period

  11 APRIL 2013

  Amazons

  18 APRIL 2013

  The Putney Debates

  25 APRIL 2013

  Montaigne

  2 MAY 2013

  Gnosticism

  9 MAY 2013

  Icelandic Sagas

  16 MAY 2013

  Cosmic Rays

  23 MAY 2013

  Lévi-Strauss

  30 MAY 2013

  Queen Zenobia

  6 JUNE 2013

  Relativity

  13 JUNE 2013

  Prophecy

  20 JUNE 2013

  The Physiocrats

  27 JUNE 2013

  Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  4 JULY 2013

  The Invention of Radio

  19 SEPTEMBER 2013

  Blaise Pascal

  26 SEPTEMBER 2013

  The Mamluks

  3 OCTOBER 2013

  Exoplanets

  10 OCTOBER 2013

  Galen

  17 OCTOBER 2013

  The Book of Common Prayer

  24 OCTOBER 2013

  The Corn Laws

  31 OCTOBER 2013

  The Berlin Conference

  7 NOVEMBER 2013

  Ordinary Language Philosophy

  14 NOVEMBER 2013

  The Tempest

  21 NOVEMBER 2013

  Pocahontas

  28 NOVEMBER 2013

  The Microscope

  5 DECEMBER 2013

  Hindu Ideas of Creation

  12 DECEMBER 2013

  Pliny the Younger

  19 DECEMBER 2013

  Complexity

  26 DECEMBER 2013

  The Medici

  3 JANUARY 2014

  Plato’s Symposium

  16 JANUARY 2014

  The Battle of Tours

  23 JANUARY 2014

  Sources of Early Chinese History

  30 JANUARY 2014

  Catastrophism

  6 FEBRUARY 2014

  The Phoenicians

  13 FEBRUARY 2014

  Chivalry

  20 FEBRUARY 2014

  Social Darwinism

  27 FEBRUARY 2014

  The Eye

  6 MARCH 2014

  Spartacus

  13 MARCH 2014

  The Trinity

  20 MARCH 2014

  Bishop Berkeley

  27 MARCH 2014

  Weber’s The Protestant Ethic

  3 APRIL 2014

  States of Matter

  10 APRIL 2014

  Strabo’s Geographica

  17 APRIL 2014

  The Domesday Book

  24 APRIL 2014

  Tristram Shandy

  1 MAY 2014

  The Tale of Sinuhe

  8 MAY 2014

  Second Sino-Japanese War

  15 MAY 2014

  Photosynthesis

  22 MAY 2014

  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  29 MAY 2014

  The Talmud

  5 JUNE 2014

  The Bluestockings

  12 JUNE 2014

  Robert Boyle

  19 JUNE 2014

  The Philosophy of Solitude

  26 JUNE 2014

  Hildegard of Bingen

  3 JULY 2014

  Mrs Dalloway

  10 JULY 2014

  The Sun

  25 SEPT
EMBER 2014

  2 OCTOBER 2014

  Julius Caesar

  9 OCTOBER 2014

  The Battle of Talas

  16 OCTOBER 2014

  Rudyard Kipling

  23 OCTOBER 2014

  The Haitian Revolution

  30 OCTOBER 2014

  Nuclear Fusion

  6 NOVEMBER 2014

  Hatshepsut

  13 NOVEMBER 2014

  Brunel

  20 NOVEMBER 2014

  Aesop

  27 NOVEMBER 2014

  Kafka’s The Trial

  4 DECEMBER 2014

  Zen

  11 DECEMBER 2014

  Behavioural Ecology

  18 DECEMBER 2014

  Truth

  15 JANUARY 2015

  Bruegel’s The Fight Between

  22 JANUARY 2015

  Phenomenology

  29 JANUARY 2015

  Thucydides

  5 FEBRUARY 2015

  Ashoka the Great

  12 FEBRUARY 2015

  The Photon

  19 FEBRUARY 2015

  The Wealth of Nations

  26 FEBRUARY 2015

  The Eunuch

  5 MARCH 2015

  Beowulf

  12 MARCH 2015

  Dark Matter

  19 MARCH 2015

  Al-Ghazali

  26 MARCH 2015

  The Curies

  2 APRIL 2015

  The California Gold Rush

  9 APRIL 2015

  Sappho

  16 APRIL 2015

  Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty

  23 APRIL 2015

  Fanny Burney

  30 APRIL 2015

  The Earth’s Core

  7 MAY 2015

  Rabindranath Tagore

  14 MAY 2015

  The Lancashire Cotton Famine

  21 MAY 2015

  Josephus

  28 MAY 2015

  The Science of Glass

  4 JUNE 2015

  Prester John

  11 JUNE 2015

  Utilitarianism

  18 JUNE 2015

  Jane Eyre

  25 JUNE 2015

  Extremophiles

  2 JULY 2015

  Frederick the Great

  9 JULY 2015

  Frida Kahlo

  24 SEPTEMBER 2015

  Perpetual Motion

  1 OCTOBER 2015

  Alexander the Great

  15 OCTOBER 2015

  Holbein at the Tudor Court

  22 OCTOBER 2015

  Simone de Beauvoir

  29 OCTOBER 2015

  The Empire of Mali

  5 NOVEMBER 2015

  P vs NP

  12 NOVEMBER 2015

  Battle of Lepanto

  19 NOVEMBER 2015

  Emma

  29 NOVEMBER 2015

  The Salem Witch Trials

  3 DECEMBER 2015

  Voyages of James Cook

  10 DECEMBER 2015

  Chinese Legalism

  17 DECEMBER 2015

  Circadian Rhythms

  25 DECEMBER 2015

  Michael Faraday

  31 DECEMBER 2015

  Tristan and Iseult

  14 JANUARY 2016

  Saturn

  21 JANUARY 2016

  Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

  28 JANUARY 2016

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  4 FEBRUARY 2016

  Chromatography

  11 FEBRUARY 2016

  Rumi’s Poetry

  18 FEBRUARY 2016

  Robert Hooke

  25 FEBRUARY 2016

  Mary Magdalene

  3 MARCH 2016

  The Dutch East India Company

  10 MARCH 2016

  The Maya Civilisation

  17 MARCH 2016

  Bedlam

  24 MARCH 2016

  Aurora Leigh

  31 MARCH 2016

  Agrippina the Younger

  7 APRIL 2016

  The Sikh Empire

 

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