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In Our Time Episodes

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    The Plague of Justinian

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scale and impact of the plague that raged in 541AD.

  2. The Great Gatsby

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.

  3. Eclipses

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.

  4. The Cultural Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76

  5. John Wesley and Methodism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century

  6. Fernando Pessoa

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.

  7. The Zong Massacre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.

  8. Albrecht D眉rer

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.

  9. Mary Astell

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 鈥� 1731).

  10. Piers Plowman

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.

  11. Maria Theresa

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order

  12. Alan Turing

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.

  13. Deism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.

  14. Macbeth

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.

  15. Cave Art

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how and why Stone Age people decorated caves with images.

  16. Pericles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Athenian statesman and orator.

  17. The Covenanters

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.

  18. Paul Dirac

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.

  19. The Evolution of Horses

    Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.

  20. The Valladolid Debate

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.

  21. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of three Roman legions.

  22. George Sand

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.

  23. Alcuin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scholar who revived learning for its own sake in C8th

  24. Solar Wind

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.

  25. The Siege of Paris 1870-71

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune

  26. Catullus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

  27. Tutankhamun

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and what that revealed

  28. Auden

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

  29. Coffee

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact

  30. Lawrence of Arabia

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lawrence of Arabia for this year's Listener Week

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