In Our Time Episodes Available now
The Battle of Valmy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
Slime Moulds
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.
Vase-mania
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.
Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work
The Habitability of Planets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.
Nizami Ganjavi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 12th-century Persian epic romantic poet.
The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
Italo Calvino
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist
The Antikythera Mechanism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
George Herbert
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
