In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas ...
IOT: The Samurai
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of the Samurai, and the role of their myth in Japanese national identity. With Gregory ...
IOT: Pythagoras
Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas and influence of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. With Serafina ...
IOT: The Silk Road 03 Dec 09
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia for over a thousand years, carrying Buddhism to China and ...
IOT: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 26 Nov 09
Melvyn Bragg discusses A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic ...
IOT: Sparta 19 Nov 09
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall and Angie Hobbs discuss Sparta, the militaristic Ancient Greek city-state, and the ...
IOT: The discovery of Radiation 12 Nov 09
Melvyn Bragg discuss the history of the discovery of radiation, from the idea that light consisted of waves, through electromagnetism, to ...
IOT: The Siege of Münster 5 Nov 09
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Siege of Münster in 1534-35, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New Jerusalem' in a small German ...
IOT: Schopenhauer 29 Oct 09
Melvyn Bragg is joined by A.C. Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and Christopher Janaway to discuss the dark, pessimistic philosophy of Arthur ...
IOT: The Geological Formation of Britain
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Richard Corfield, Jane Francis and Sanjeev Gupta to discuss the geological formation of Britain.
IOT: The Death of Elizabeth I
Melvyn Bragg is joined by John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen Hackett to discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I, and its impact on how ...
IOT: The Dreyfus Affair
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris and Robert Tombs to discuss the Dreyfus Affair - the 1890s scandal which split France ...
IOT: Akhenaten
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson and Kate Spence to discuss Akhenaten, the ruler who brought revolutionary ...