Browse the 20th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg looks at how perceptions of childhood have changed over the last 100 years.
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Melvyn Bragg examines the roots and the consequences of religious fundamentalism.
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Joseph Conrad鈥檚 novel, Heart of Darkness.
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind鈥檚 search for knowledge.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Melvyn Bragg investigates artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Hell and its representation in the arts.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
Melvyn Bragg examines what impact globalisation has had on human rights.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.
