In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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The Gin Craze (repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the 18th Century gin craze.
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The Franco-American Alliance 1778 (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact
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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth
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The Fighting Temeraire (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's painting The Fighting Temeraire.
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The Evolution of Teeth (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
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The Evolution of Crocodiles (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
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The Death of Stars (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the end of stars can lead to new planets and new life
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The Bacchae (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
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The 12th Century Renaissance (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in Western Europe
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Sir Thomas Wyatt (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
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Sir Thomas Wyatt (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Samuel Beckett (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
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Robert Hooke (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Robert Hooke
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Rawls' Theory of Justice (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality
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Pockets (from Here For The History)'
The surprising history of how women鈥檚 pockets fell in and out of fashion over time.
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Pockets (from Here For The History)
The surprising history of how women鈥檚 pockets fell in and out of fashion over time.
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Picasso's Guernica (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work
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Photosynthesis
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis
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Pheromones (Archive Episode)
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
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Pauli's Exclusion Principle (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
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Paul Dirac (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived
