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In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

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The Long March

The Long March

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a foundation story for China as it was reshaped under Mao Zedong. In October 1934, arou... Read more

29 Nov 2018

50mins

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The Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years War

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war in Europe which begain in 1618 and continued on such a scale and with such devas... Read more

6 Dec 2018

50mins

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Aristotle's Biology

Aristotle's Biology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable achievement of Aristotle (384-322BC) in the realm of biological investiga... Read more

7 Feb 2019

50mins

Ranked #4

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The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eleven stories of Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance known as The Mabinogion, mo... Read more

10 May 2018

48mins

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The Plague of Justinian

The Plague of Justinian

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the plague that broke out in Constantinople 541AD, in the reign of Emperor Justinian. A... Read more

21 Jan 2021

48mins

Ranked #6

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novel written by Dostoevsky and published in 1866, in which Raskolnikov, a strugglin... Read more

14 Nov 2019

52mins

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The American Populists

The American Populists

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what, in C19th America's Gilded Age, was one of the most significant protest movements s... Read more

15 Jun 2017

49mins

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al-Biruni

al-Biruni

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Central Asian polymath al-Biruni and his eleventh-century book the India.Born in... Read more

31 Aug 2017

41mins

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The Mexican-American War

The Mexican-American War

Melvyn and guests discuss the 1846-48 conflict after which the United States of Mexico lost half its territory to the Un... Read more

28 Jun 2018

49mins

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Enzymes

Enzymes

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the proteins that control the speed of chemical reactions in living organisms. ... Read more

1 Jun 2017

48mins

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) and his extraordinary contribution to med... Read more

18 May 2017

51mins

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The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Chairman Mao and the revolt he led within his own party from 1966, setting communists ag... Read more

17 Dec 2020

48mins

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the text and context of The Book of the Dead, also known as the Book of Coming Forth by ... Read more

27 Apr 2017

46mins

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Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work and ideas of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), awarded the Nobel Prize in C... Read more

3 Oct 2019

52mins

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Thomas Paine's Common Sense

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine and his pamphlet "Common Sense" which was published in Philadelphia in Janu... Read more

21 Jan 2016

45mins

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