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Renaissance Medicine: healthcare and disease in early modern England
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about medicine in Tudor and Stuart England.
09 Jan 2026,·57 mins
Series 4
54. Martha Brown - Domestic Violence
Lucy Worsley meets Martha Brown, accused of murdering her abusive husband in 1850s Dorset.
06 Jan 2026,·29 mins
Evil Animals - Dogs
Are dogs - aka Bark Wahlberg – evil or just plain genius?
07 Jan 2026,·35 mins
The Soviet Union, Part 1 of 2
How did one of the most ambitious political experiments in human history come about?
09 Jan 2026,·53 mins
Nelson: Bonaparte Prepares to Strike (Part 4)
Join Dominic and Tom on Nelson after Copenhagen, scandals and battles with Napoleon.
09 Jan 2026,·64 mins
The Most Notorious Viking Raid
The Viking attack on Lindisfarne sent cultural shockwaves through history
08 Jan 2026,·43 mins
Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother
What if the most powerful woman in Anne Boleyn’s story never spoke on the record?
The Sisters Who Took On A Dictator
A woman and her sisters refuse to bow down to a brutal dictator.
Welcoming Misha Glenny to the In Our Time studio
Misha Glenny introduces himself to you as he prepares for his first episode of In Our Time
08 Jan 2026,·6 mins
Two Nottingham Lads
4. Last Days in the Donbas
The final cost of the Donetsk interview becomes clear for Aiden and Graham.
14 Jan 2026,·28 mins
Series 2
Perfectionists: Martha Graham
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
16 Jan 2026,·14 mins
The Hanseatic League
The trading network that reshaped Northern Europe.
08 Jan 2026,·28 mins
Dictators' Wives: Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing was married to the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong for nearly 40 years.
07 Jan 2026,·38 mins
Kennedy and Khrushchev
7. Eyeball to eyeball
President Kennedy addresses the nation and imposes a blockade on ships bound for Cuba
05 Jan 2026,·37 mins
The Prestonville Horror
Was a unicorn haunting Edwardian Brighton?
05 Jan 2026,·49 mins
Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women
The sewing machine was once thought to be an impossible invention.
09 Jan 2026,·36 mins
Inside the Royal Harems of the Ottoman Empire
What was life like inside this closed-off world?
09 Jan 2026,·50 mins
Battle of Gallipoli
A New Zealand soldier's account of surviving one of the worst battles of World War One
09 Jan 2026,·10 mins
Football's Next Star
In 2009, a TV show earned Ben Greenhalgh a contract at Italian Champions Inter Milan
03 Jan 2026,·9 mins
Highways to Hell
Alex Forsyth on traffic jam Britain and why roadworks now disrupt our lives so often.
04 Jan 2026,·28 mins
5th to 11th January
Fascinating, surprising and eye-opening stories from the past, brought to life.
07 Jan 2026,·5 mins
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
13. Raise the Titanic
Experts weigh the legacy and ponder the future of the most infamous ship in history.
01 Jul 2025,·50 mins
Secret Paths
Chloe Dalton’s memoir about her unlikely and transformative relationship with a wild hare.
03 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Useless Men Jokes
Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.
05 Sep 2025,·14 mins
The American Freedom Train and the invention of text messaging
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
03 Jan 2026,·60 mins
The Trip
10. Unknown unknowns
What more is there to learn about psychedelics? Tim Hayward makes a case for curiosity.
01 Sep 2025,·14 mins
6. The Reunion
Jake and Debbie travel to Helsinki for Debbie and Natasha's first meeting in 50 years.
30 Sep 2025,·42 mins
15. 'I know who this lady is'
A message arrives from Jean. It says, “I know who this lady is".
13 May 2024,·30 mins
The Blackout Ripper
The Killers and The Hangman
Marjorie Cummins is certain that her husband is innocent, but will the jury believe her?
27 May 2024,·30 mins
Heroism
5. New Heroes
Rory Stewart explores ideas of the hero through time.
01 Sep 2025,·28 mins
