Browse the 20th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Red Army's retreat across China, from October 1934
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.