Browse the 20th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the roots of Africa's current political and social crises.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the American philosophy of pragmatism.
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
Melvyn Bragg examines Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany though historiographical theories.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
Melvyn Bragg examines how legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history and legacy of 20th Century Avant Garde painting.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.
Melvyn Bragg examines the impact of Britain鈥檚 colonial past on its current identity.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the city.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the innovative developments of the city in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and influence of the Frankfurt School.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.