20th Century
Browse the 20th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles
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Death in Venice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
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A Room of One's Own
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
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Paul Erdős
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
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Stevie Smith
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
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Superconductivity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
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Rawls' Theory of Justice
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Rawls' influential ideas on liberty and equality.
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Citizen Kane
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
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Bauhaus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
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Wilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
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Dylan Thomas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
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Charisma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Max Weber's idea of charismatic authority in leadership
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Walter Benjamin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential thinkers of the last century.
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Colette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
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The Gold Standard
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
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Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
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Fritz Lang
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
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The May Fourth Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.
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Iris Murdoch
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
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The Manhattan Project
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
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The Russo-Japanese War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.
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The Great Gatsby
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
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The Cultural Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mao's uprising against his own party from 1966-76
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