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In Our TimeEpisodes

  1. 29/01/2026

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

  2. 22/01/2026

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

  3. In Our Time returns

    Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time following Melvyn Bragg's retirement

  4. Civility: Talking With Those Who Disagree With You

    On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards

  5. Dragons

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this ubiquitous mythical creature.

  6. Barbour's 'Brus'

    How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

  7. The Evolution of Lungs

    From the mechanics of the first breaths on Earth to the reason we hiccup.

  8. The Vienna Secession

    Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.

  9. Hypnosis

    Melvyn Bragg and guests explore hypnosis.

  10. Paul von Hindenburg

    How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.

  11. Copyright

    The evolution of copyright.

  12. Lise Meitner

    The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.

  13. The Korean Empire

    How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.

  14. Molière

    The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

  15. Typology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.

  16. The Battle of Clontarf

    Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

  17. The Gracchi

    Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.

  18. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought

  19. Thomas Middleton

    The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare

  20. Cyrus the Great

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.

  21. Pollination

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the interplay between plants and pollinators.

  22. Kali

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms

  23. Oliver Goldsmith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this influential and prolific 18th-century Irish writer.

  24. Catherine of Aragon

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.

  25. Sir John Soane

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential English architect John Soane.

  26. Pope Joan

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.

  27. Socrates in Prison

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiring last days of the great Athenian philosopher.

  28. The Battle of Valmy

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.

  29. Slime Moulds

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.

  30. Vase-mania

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the eighteenth century mania for classical vases.

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