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In Our Time Episodes

  1. Cave Art (Summer Repeat)

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

  2. Catullus (Summer Repeat)

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

  3. Carl Friedrich Gauss (repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.

  4. Bird Migration (Archive Episode)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

  5. Bird Migration

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

  6. Bergson and Time (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas on our experience of time passing

  7. Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards

  8. Automata (Summer Repeat)

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

  9. Authenticity (Repeat)

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself

  10. Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat)

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

  11. Auden (Summer Repeat)

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

  12. Archive: Trinity

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

  13. Archive: The War of 1812

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

  14. Archive: The Measurement of Time

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

  15. Archive: Rosalind Franklin

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

  16. Archive: Plato's Republic

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

  17. Archive: Plate Tectonics

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

  18. Archive: Hatshepsut

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

  19. Archive: Frederick Douglass

    Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on Frederick Douglass

  20. Archive: Feathered Dinosaurs

    Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on evidence of dinosaur feathers.

  21. Archive: Erasmus

    Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on the humanist scholar Erasmus.

  22. Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi

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

  23. Archive: Emma

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

  24. Archive: Dark Matter, the mysterious substance in space

    Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on Dark Matter.

  25. Archive: Coffee

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

  26. Archive: Citizen Kane

    A classic episode on Citizen Kane, the film that changed cinema.

  27. Archive: Aphra Behn

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

  28. 27/11/2025

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

  29. 20/11/2025

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

  30. 19/12/2026 GMT

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

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