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In Our Time Episodes

  1. Automata (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.

  2. Authenticity (Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  3. Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity

  4. Auden (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

  5. Archive: Trinity

    Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: the Trinity, a key Christian doctrine.

  6. Archive: The War of 1812

    Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: the War of 1812 between USA and Britain

  7. Archive: The Measurement of Time

    Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on how humans have measured time.

  8. Archive: Rosalind Franklin

    Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: the eminent scientist Rosalind Franklin

  9. Archive: Plato's Republic

    Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: one of the greatest works of philosophy

  10. Archive: Plate Tectonics

    Misha Glenny鈥檚 choice from In Our Time鈥檚 archive:the theory the Earth鈥檚 surface is moving

  11. Archive: Hatshepsut

    Misha Glenny picks an episode from In Our Time鈥檚 archive: the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.

  12. Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi

    Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: China鈥檚 powerful Empress Dowager Cixi.

  13. Archive: Emma

    Misha Glenny introduces a classic In Our Time episode: Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.

  14. Archive: Coffee

    Misha Glenny picks a classic episode from the In Our Time archive: the history of coffee

  15. Archive: Aphra Behn

    Misha Glenny introduces a classic In Our Time episode: the playwright and spy Aphra Behn.

  16. 27/11/2025

    The ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

  17. 20/11/2025

    The ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

  18. 1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.

  19. 09/10/2025

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

  20. 01/01/2026

    The ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

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