In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

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In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still a...

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The Sack of Rome 1527

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous assault of an army of the Holy Roman Emperor on the...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's book which first appeared in print in 1865 with...

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Hormones

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies...

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The Hanseatic League

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hanseatic League or Hansa which dominated North European...

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Panpsychism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that some kind of consciousness is present not just in...

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Nefertiti

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who inspired one of the best known artefacts from...

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Condorcet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94), known as the Last of the...

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s great comedies, which plays in the space...

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Vincent van Gogh

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch artist famous for starry nights and sunflowers, self...

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Tiberius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Tiberius. When he was born in 42BC, there was...

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Karl Barth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century....

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Edgar Allan Poe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Poe (1809-1849), the American author who is famous for his Gothic...

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Marguerite de Navarre

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Marguerite, Queen of Navarre (1492 – 1549), author of the...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In...

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The Barbary Corsairs

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the North African privateers who, until their demise in the...

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on what happiness means and how to live a good...

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Germinal

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's greatest literary success, his thirteenth novel in a...

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Julian of Norwich

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anchoress and mystic who, in the late fourteenth century,...

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The Federalist Papers

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay's essays written...

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