In Our Time Episodes Episode guide
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Li Shizhen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heights of medical knowledge under the Ming dynasty
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Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the C12th Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Crime and Punishment
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
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The Treaty of Limerick
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the treaty ending the Williamite War in Ireland in 1691
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Hybrids
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
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Robert Burns
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
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The Time Machine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
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Rousseau on Education
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The Rapture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
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Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
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Lorca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
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Doggerland
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Stone Age human habitats now covered by the North Sea.
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The Mytilenaean Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Athenians' change of mind in the Peloponnesian War.
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The Inca
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the advanced Andean empire, dominant until Pizarro arrived
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Sir Thomas Browne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
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President Ulysses S Grant
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
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Kinetic Theory
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
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Frankenstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
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Bergson and Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
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The Gordon Riots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
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Nero
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notorious rulers of ancient Rome.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays
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The Evolution of Teeth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
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The Great Irish Famine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
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The Danelaw
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish impact on England in 9th and 10th centuries.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
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Authenticity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
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William Cecil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful man in the court of Elizabeth I.
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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
