Browse the 19th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political creed of Anarchism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Parisian philosophy of life lived for art.
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck.
The life and ideas of Karl Marx who changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution.
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation and its impact on society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between heritage culture and the study of history.
The life and ideas of the 19th century political philosopher John Stuart Mill.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1857 trial of Gustave Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary
The achievements and legacy of the 19th century literary giant Charles Dickens.