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In Our Time, BBC Radio 4. The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. Primary Format : News Language : Unknown Also Listed as: News Politics City : London State/Province : ENG Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Modern | Radio | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of In Our Time Podcasts Methings.com listings of In Our Time Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

IOT: The Whale A History Melvyn Bragg discusses the evolutionary history of the Whale, examining how this leviathan of the deep evolved from a small land based mammal with cloven hoofs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: Magna Carta Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Michael Clanchy, Nick Vincent and David Carpenter to discuss Magna Carta; the oft proclaimed foundation of English Liberties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The Vacuum of Space 30 Apr 09 Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Frank Close, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Ruth Gregory to discuss the Vacuum of Space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The Building of St Petersburg Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Janet Hartley, Anthony Cross and Simon Dixon to discuss the founding and flourishing of Peter the Great's alternative to Moscow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: Brave New World Melvyn Bragg is joined by David Bradshaw, Michele Barrett and Daniel Pick to discuss the anxieties and ambitions in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Our Time: Baconian Science Melvyn Bragg is joined by Stephen Pumfrey, Patricia Fara and Rhodri Lewis to discuss Francis Bacon's deductive approach to scientific inquiry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The School of Athens 26 Mar 09 Melvyn Bragg discusses Raphael's fresco 'The School of Athens' with Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick; Valery Rees, Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science; and Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute at the University of London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The Boxer Rebellion Melvyn Bragg discusses the'The Boxer Rebellion' - a nationalist uprising in China in 1900 against Western influence and Christianity. Why did it happen and what were its consequences? He is joined by Frances Wood, Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library; Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford; Gary Tiedemann, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The Library at Alexandria Melvyn Bragg is joined by Simon Goldhill, Matthew Nichols and Serafina Cuomo to discuss the ancient Library of Alexandria - one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of its time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The measurement problem in physics Melvyn Bragg is joined by Roger Penrose, Basil Hiley and Simon Saunders to discuss the bizarre nature of atoms and the conundrum at the heart of quantum physics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Our Time: The Destruction of Carthage Melvyn Bragg is joined by Mary Beard, Jo Crawley-Quinn and Ellen O'Gorman to discuss the destruction of the ancient city of Carthage by the Romans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Our Time: The Brothers Grimm Melvyn Bragg is joined by Juliette Wood, Mariner Warner and Tony Phelan to discuss the weird and wonderful worlds of the Brothers Grimm Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Our Time: Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests John Mullan, Judith Hawley and Ian McBride to discuss Swift's satirical solution to Irish poverty in the eighteenth century Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Our Time: A History of History Melvyn Bragg is joined by Paul Cartledge, Miri Rubin and John Burrow to discuss how the writing of history has changed over time and what that says about successive ages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: Thoreau and the American Idyll Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and ideas of the 19th century American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. His guests this week are Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London; Tim Morris, Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Dundee; and Stephen Fender, Honorary Professor in English at University College London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DARWIN: In Our Time - Prog 4 Life After the Origin To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Melvyn Bragg presents a special 4 part documentary tracing Darwin's life and ideas. Part 4 is set in Down House where Darwin lived out the final years of his life and which became both family home and experiment lab. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DARWIN: In Our Time - Prog 3 On the Origin of Species To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Melvyn Bragg presents a special 4 part documentary tracing Darwin's life and ideas. Part 3 looks at the publication of Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, and the controversy it stirred. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DARWIN: In Our Time - Prog 2 The Beagle, the Mockingbird and the Megatherium In a special series to mark the 200 anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth Melvyn Bragg presents a documentary series on the life and ideas of Charles Darwin. Part 2 of 4 charts Darwin's round the world voyage on the Beagle and the objects and the ideas he bought back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DARWIN: In Our Time - Prog 1 On the Origins of Charles Darwin To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Melvyn Bragg presents a special 4-part documentary charting Darwin's life and ideas. Episode 1, On the Origins of Charles Darwin, charts Darwin's unhappy childhood, his time at Cambridge University and his failure to become a priest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The Consolation of Philosophy Melvyn Bragg discusses the 6th century philosophical text by Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, and discusses its ideas as well as the consolations of philosophy offered by other great thinkers through the ages. He is joined by Roger Scruton, Research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences; Melissa Lane, Senior University Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge; and Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOT: The Great Fire of London Melvyn Bragg discusses the Great Fire of London with his guests Lisa Jardine, Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; Vanessa Harding, Reader in London History at Birkbeck, University of London; and Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website