In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
Episodes
| Title | Duration | Published | Consumed |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Temperance Movement | 00:52:25 | 2022-02-03 11:15 | |
| Colette | 00:51:27 | 2022-01-27 11:15 | |
| The Gold Standard | 00:49:00 | 2022-01-20 11:15 | |
| Thomas Hardy's Poetry | 00:50:43 | 2022-01-13 11:15 | |
| Fritz Lang | 00:55:00 | 2021-12-30 11:15 | |
| The Hittites | 00:52:19 | 2021-12-23 11:15 | |
| A Christmas Carol | 00:56:18 | 2021-12-16 11:15 | |
| The May Fourth Movement | 00:52:57 | 2021-12-09 11:15 | |
| The Battle of Trafalgar | 00:51:57 | 2021-12-02 11:15 | |
| Plato's Gorgias | 00:50:03 | 2021-11-25 11:15 | |
| The Decadent Movement | 00:51:22 | 2021-11-18 11:15 | |
| William and Caroline Herschel | 00:50:56 | 2021-11-11 11:15 | |
| The Song of Roland | 00:51:58 | 2021-11-04 11:15 | |
| Corals | 00:51:35 | 2021-10-28 11:15 | |
| Iris Murdoch | 00:54:25 | 2021-10-21 11:15 | |
| The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 00:48:43 | 2021-10-14 11:15 | |
| The Manhattan Project | 00:48:20 | 2021-10-07 11:15 | |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 00:49:33 | 2021-09-30 11:15 | |
| Herodotus | 00:52:18 | 2021-09-23 11:15 | |
| The Evolution of Crocodiles | 00:53:07 | 2021-09-16 11:15 | |
| Samuel Beckett (Summer Repeat) | 00:49:24 | 2021-09-09 10:02 | |
| Bergson and Time (Summer Repeat) | 00:51:50 | 2021-09-02 10:02 | |
| The Treaty of Limerick (Summer Repeat) | 00:52:58 | 2021-08-26 10:02 | |
| Auden (Summer Repeat) | 00:53:43 | 2021-08-19 10:02 | |
| The Evolution of Teeth (Summer Repeat) | 00:49:31 | 2021-08-12 10:02 | |
| Catullus (Summer Repeat) | 00:52:39 | 2021-08-05 10:02 | |
| The Rapture (Summer Repeat) | 00:50:59 | 2021-07-29 10:02 | |
| Doggerland (Summer Repeat) | 00:54:03 | 2021-07-22 10:02 | |
| Automata (Summer Repeat) | 00:52:14 | 2021-07-15 10:02 | |
| George Sand (Summer Repeat) | 00:55:03 | 2021-07-08 10:02 | |
| Paul Dirac (Summer Repeat) | 00:50:55 | 2021-07-01 10:02 | |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets | 00:52:25 | 2021-06-24 11:15 | |
| Edward Gibbon | 00:52:22 | 2021-06-17 11:15 | |
| Booth's Life and Labour Survey | 00:48:47 | 2021-06-10 11:15 | |
| Kant's Copernican Revolution | 00:53:17 | 2021-06-03 11:15 | |
| The Interregnum | 00:52:24 | 2021-05-27 11:15 | |
| Journey to the West | 00:51:49 | 2021-05-20 11:15 | |
| Longitude | 00:50:28 | 2021-05-13 11:15 | |
| The Second Barons' War | 00:56:32 | 2021-05-06 11:15 | |
| Ovid | 00:49:31 | 2021-04-29 11:15 | |
| The Franco-American Alliance 1778 | 00:50:51 | 2021-04-22 11:15 | |
| Arianism | 00:50:06 | 2021-04-15 11:15 | |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 00:48:10 | 2021-04-08 11:15 | |
| The Russo-Japanese War | 00:48:51 | 2021-04-01 12:46 | |
| David Ricardo | 00:49:51 | 2021-03-25 11:15 | |
| The Bacchae | 00:52:11 | 2021-03-18 11:15 | |
| The Late Devonian Extinction | 00:49:05 | 2021-03-11 11:15 | |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 00:53:00 | 2021-03-04 11:15 | |
| Marcus Aurelius | 00:52:36 | 2021-02-25 11:15 | |
| Medieval Pilgrimage | 00:50:43 | 2021-02-18 11:15 | |
| The Rosetta Stone | 00:47:02 | 2021-02-11 11:15 | |
| Emilie du Châtelet | 00:49:50 | 2021-02-04 11:15 | |
| Saint Cuthbert | 00:56:05 | 2021-01-28 11:15 | |
| The Plague of Justinian | 00:48:31 | 2021-01-21 11:15 | |
| The Great Gatsby | 00:55:34 | 2021-01-14 11:15 | |
| Eclipses | 00:50:31 | 2020-12-31 11:15 | |
| The Cultural Revolution | 00:48:09 | 2020-12-17 11:15 | |
| John Wesley and Methodism | 00:51:32 | 2020-12-10 11:15 | |
| Fernando Pessoa | 00:50:06 | 2020-12-03 11:15 | |
| The Zong Massacre | 00:52:04 | 2020-11-26 11:15 | |
| Authenticity (Repeat) | 00:50:33 | 2020-11-19 11:15 | |
| Albrecht Dürer | 00:54:00 | 2020-11-12 11:15 | |
| Mary Astell | 00:51:34 | 2020-11-05 11:15 | |
| Piers Plowman | 00:51:01 | 2020-10-29 11:15 | |
| Maria Theresa | 00:50:37 | 2020-10-22 11:15 | |
| Alan Turing | 00:53:08 | 2020-10-15 11:15 | |
| Deism | 00:48:17 | 2020-10-08 11:15 | |
| Macbeth | 00:51:45 | 2020-10-01 11:15 | |
| Cave Art | 00:48:01 | 2020-09-24 11:15 | |
| Pericles | 00:48:55 | 2020-09-17 11:15 | |
| Titus Oates and his "Popish Plot" (summer repeat) | 00:49:46 | 2020-09-10 10:02 | |
| The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Summer Repeat) | 00:50:25 | 2020-09-03 13:31 | |
| The Fighting Temeraire (Summer Repeat) | 00:46:38 | 2020-08-27 10:02 | |
| Utilitarianism (Summer Repeat) | 00:44:40 | 2020-08-20 10:02 | |
| The Lancashire Cotton Famine (Summer Repeat) | 00:45:42 | 2020-08-13 10:02 | |
| Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat) | 00:47:49 | 2020-08-06 10:02 | |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh (Summer Repeat) | 00:47:43 | 2020-07-30 10:02 | |
| Kant's Categorical Imperative (Summer Repeat) | 00:50:17 | 2020-07-23 10:02 | |
| P vs NP (Summer Repeat) | 00:46:41 | 2020-07-16 10:02 | |
| 1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat) | 00:46:41 | 2020-07-09 10:02 | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | 00:52:57 | 2020-07-02 11:15 | |
| Hannah Arendt | 00:47:42 | 2020-06-25 11:15 | |
| Bird Migration | 00:52:12 | 2020-06-18 11:15 | |
| Frederick Douglass | 00:52:26 | 2020-06-11 11:15 | |
| Absolute Zero | 00:42:49 | 2020-06-04 10:02 | |
| Zeno's Paradoxes | 00:47:00 | 2020-05-28 11:15 | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 00:51:36 | 2020-05-21 11:15 | |
| Photosynthesis | 00:47:16 | 2020-05-14 11:15 | |
| John Clare | 00:49:02 | 2020-05-07 11:15 | |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss (repeat) | 00:49:22 | 2020-04-30 11:15 | |
| Wuthering Heights (repeat) | 00:50:06 | 2020-04-23 11:15 | |
| Feathered Dinosaurs (repeat) | 00:47:59 | 2020-04-16 11:15 | |
| Marie Antoinette (repeat) | 00:49:07 | 2020-04-09 11:15 | |
| The Gin Craze (repeat) | 00:51:48 | 2020-04-02 10:00 | |
| George and Robert Stephenson (repeat) | 00:49:29 | 2020-03-26 10:00 | |
| Frankenstein | 00:55:09 | 2020-03-19 11:15 | |
| The Covenanters | 00:53:49 | 2020-03-12 11:15 | |
| Paul Dirac | 00:50:47 | 2020-03-05 11:15 | |
| The Evolution of Horses | 00:50:10 | 2020-02-27 11:15 | |
| The Valladolid Debate | 00:53:00 | 2020-02-20 11:15 | |
| Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | 00:51:10 | 2020-02-13 11:15 | |
| George Sand | 00:54:57 | 2020-02-06 11:15 | |
| Alcuin | 00:56:03 | 2020-01-30 11:15 | |
| Solar Wind | 00:55:13 | 2020-01-23 11:15 | |
| The Siege of Paris 1870-71 | 00:52:05 | 2020-01-16 11:18 | |
| Catullus | 00:52:33 | 2020-01-09 11:15 | |
| Tutankhamun | 00:53:14 | 2019-12-26 11:15 | |
| Auden | 00:53:25 | 2019-12-19 11:15 | |
| Coffee | 00:55:11 | 2019-12-12 11:15 | |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 00:51:46 | 2019-12-05 11:15 | |
| Li Shizhen | 00:51:46 | 2019-11-28 11:15 | |
| Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem | 00:52:59 | 2019-11-21 11:15 | |
| Crime and Punishment | 00:52:40 | 2019-11-14 11:15 | |
| The Treaty of Limerick | 00:52:40 | 2019-11-07 11:15 | |
| Hybrids | 00:50:49 | 2019-10-31 11:23 | |
| Robert Burns | 00:52:28 | 2019-10-24 11:15 | |
| The Time Machine | 00:51:55 | 2019-10-17 11:15 | |
| Rousseau on Education | 00:51:41 | 2019-10-10 11:15 | |
| Dorothy Hodgkin | 00:52:22 | 2019-10-03 11:15 | |
| The Rapture | 00:51:14 | 2019-09-26 11:15 | |
| Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow | 00:54:00 | 2019-09-19 11:15 | |
| Free Will (Summer Repeat) | 00:43:04 | 2019-09-12 10:02 | |
| Picasso's Guernica (Summer Repeat) | 00:54:23 | 2019-09-05 10:02 | |
| Augustine's Confessions (Summer Repeat) | 00:47:52 | 2019-08-29 10:02 | |
| Emmy Noether (Summer Repeat) | 00:48:35 | 2019-08-22 10:02 | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Summer Repeat) | 00:51:31 | 2019-08-15 10:02 | |
| Hope (Summer Repeat) | 00:53:11 | 2019-08-08 10:02 | |
| Venus (Summer Repeat) | 00:50:32 | 2019-08-01 10:02 | |
| Edith Wharton (Summer Repeat) | 00:49:33 | 2019-07-25 10:02 | |
| Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat) | 00:52:18 | 2019-07-18 10:02 | |
| Echolocation (Summer Repeat) | 00:51:12 | 2019-07-11 10:02 | |
| Lorca | 00:53:24 | 2019-07-04 11:15 | |
| Doggerland | 00:54:02 | 2019-06-27 11:15 | |
| The Mytilenaean Debate | 00:54:02 | 2019-06-20 11:15 | |
| The Inca | 00:52:49 | 2019-06-13 11:15 | |
| Sir Thomas Browne | 00:52:44 | 2019-06-06 11:15 | |
| President Ulysses S Grant | 00:55:12 | 2019-05-30 11:15 | |
| Kinetic Theory | 00:51:38 | 2019-05-23 11:15 | |
| Bergson and Time | 00:51:20 | 2019-05-09 11:14 | |
| The Gordon Riots | 00:50:19 | 2019-05-02 11:15 | |
| Nero | 00:51:24 | 2019-04-25 11:15 | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 00:54:53 | 2019-04-18 11:15 | |
| The Evolution of Teeth | 00:49:15 | 2019-04-11 11:25 | |
| The Great Irish Famine | 00:57:19 | 2019-04-04 11:15 | |
| The Danelaw | 00:50:06 | 2019-03-28 11:28 | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 00:47:39 | 2019-03-21 11:15 | |
| Authenticity | 00:50:33 | 2019-03-14 11:15 | |
| William Cecil | 00:51:23 | 2019-03-07 11:15 | |
| Antarah ibn Shaddad | 00:49:59 | 2019-02-28 11:23 | |
| Pheromones | 00:49:09 | 2019-02-21 11:15 | |
| Judith beheading Holofernes | 00:49:30 | 2019-02-14 11:17 | |
| Aristotle's Biology | 00:50:10 | 2019-02-07 11:19 | |
| Owain Glyndwr | 00:48:47 | 2019-01-31 11:15 | |
| Emmy Noether | 00:48:20 | 2019-01-24 11:15 | |
| Samuel Beckett | 00:48:58 | 2019-01-17 11:15 | |
| Papal Infallibility | 00:51:38 | 2019-01-10 11:15 | |
| Venus | 00:50:25 | 2018-12-27 11:15 | |
| The Poor Laws | 00:50:18 | 2018-12-20 11:53 | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 00:51:49 | 2018-12-13 11:15 | |
| The Thirty Years War | 00:50:35 | 2018-12-06 11:29 | |
| The Long March | 00:50:05 | 2018-11-29 11:10 | |
| Hope | 00:53:01 | 2018-11-22 11:57 | |
| Horace | 00:48:57 | 2018-11-15 11:57 | |
| Marie Antoinette | 00:49:07 | 2018-11-08 13:13 | |
| Free Radicals | 00:51:03 | 2018-11-01 12:23 | |
| The Fable of the Bees | 00:50:42 | 2018-10-25 12:35 | |
| Is Shakespeare History? The Romans | 00:48:17 | 2018-10-18 11:57 | |
| Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets | 00:51:27 | 2018-10-11 11:57 | |
| Edith Wharton | 00:49:28 | 2018-10-04 12:18 | |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 00:49:48 | 2018-09-27 12:00 | |
| Automata | 00:52:23 | 2018-09-20 13:55 | |
| The Iliad | 00:48:02 | 2018-09-13 12:24 | |
| Hannah Arendt (Summer Repeat) | 00:47:53 | 2018-09-06 10:45 | |
| Robert Hooke (Summer Repeat) | 00:48:35 | 2018-08-30 10:45 | |
| Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Summer Repeat) | 00:45:30 | 2018-08-23 12:59 | |
| Circadian Rhythms (Summer Repeat) | 00:48:28 | 2018-08-16 10:45 | |
| The Gin Craze (Summer Repeat) | 00:52:28 | 2018-08-09 10:45 | |
| The 12th Century Renaissance (Summer Repeat) | 00:49:59 | 2018-08-02 10:45 | |
| Four Quartets (Summer Repeat) | 00:49:05 | 2018-07-26 10:45 | |
| The Science of Glass (Summer Repeat) | 00:46:27 | 2018-07-19 10:45 | |
| Jane Eyre (Summer Repeat) | 00:46:18 | 2018-07-12 10:40 | |
| William Morris | 00:53:10 | 2018-07-05 12:24 | |
| The Mexican-American War | 00:49:06 | 2018-06-28 13:27 | |
| Echolocation | 00:51:02 | 2018-06-21 12:44 | |
| Montesquieu | 00:49:59 | 2018-06-14 12:02 | |
| Persepolis | 00:51:14 | 2018-06-07 12:09 | |
| Henrik Ibsen | 00:49:51 | 2018-05-31 12:20 | |
| Margaret of Anjou | 00:50:39 | 2018-05-24 12:36 | |
| The Emancipation of the Serfs | 00:49:54 | 2018-05-17 12:08 | |
| The Mabinogion | 00:48:26 | 2018-05-10 11:48 | |
| The Almoravid Empire | 00:49:26 | 2018-05-03 12:12 | |
| The Proton | 00:49:11 | 2018-04-26 12:18 | |
| Middlemarch | 00:51:49 | 2018-04-19 12:07 | |
| George and Robert Stephenson | 00:50:25 | 2018-04-12 12:19 | |
| Roman Slavery | 00:50:40 | 2018-04-05 11:34 | |
| Hildegard of Bingen (Repeat) | 00:45:06 | 2018-03-29 11:30 | |
| Tocqueville: Democracy in America | 00:50:51 | 2018-03-22 12:15 | |
| Augustine's Confessions | 00:47:55 | 2018-03-15 11:30 | |
| The Highland Clearances | 00:51:08 | 2018-03-08 12:17 | |
| Sun Tzu and The Art of War | 00:48:23 | 2018-03-01 13:11 | |
| Rosalind Franklin | 00:49:47 | 2018-02-22 12:57 | |
| Fungi | 00:48:37 | 2018-02-15 12:14 | |
| Frederick Douglass | 00:52:22 | 2018-02-08 12:20 | |
| Cephalopods | 00:47:19 | 2018-02-01 12:01 | |
| Cicero | 00:49:16 | 2018-01-25 13:36 | |
| Anna Akhmatova | 00:48:43 | 2018-01-18 13:47 | |
| The Siege of Malta, 1565 | 00:49:52 | 2018-01-11 13:35 | |
| Hamlet | 00:52:33 | 2017-12-28 12:00 | |
| Beethoven | 00:50:13 | 2017-12-21 12:30 | |
| Thomas Becket | 00:52:52 | 2017-12-14 12:15 | |
| Moby Dick | 00:51:00 | 2017-12-07 13:33 | |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 00:49:05 | 2017-11-30 12:18 | |
| Thebes | 00:46:49 | 2017-11-23 13:57 | |
| Germaine de Stael | 00:49:57 | 2017-11-16 11:56 | |
| The Picts | 00:56:45 | 2017-11-09 13:37 | |
| Picasso's Guernica | 00:54:17 | 2017-11-02 12:07 | |
| Feathered Dinosaurs | 00:48:17 | 2017-10-26 12:37 | |
| The Congress of Vienna | 00:48:51 | 2017-10-19 12:23 | |
| Aphra Behn | 00:49:51 | 2017-10-12 12:26 | |
| Constantine the Great | 00:48:24 | 2017-10-05 13:08 | |
| Wuthering Heights | 00:49:31 | 2017-09-28 11:59 | |
| Kant's Categorical Imperative | 00:49:29 | 2017-09-21 13:08 | |
| al-Biruni | 00:41:52 | 2017-08-31 13:02 | |
| Bird Migration | 00:51:14 | 2017-07-06 12:09 | |
| Plato's Republic | 00:48:43 | 2017-06-29 12:21 | |
| Eugene Onegin | 00:49:27 | 2017-06-22 12:18 | |
| The American Populists | 00:49:52 | 2017-06-15 12:13 | |
| Christine de Pizan | 00:50:15 | 2017-06-08 12:30 | |
| Enzymes | 00:48:36 | 2017-06-01 11:56 | |
| Purgatory | 00:48:38 | 2017-05-25 12:32 | |
| Louis Pasteur | 00:51:08 | 2017-05-18 13:05 | |
| Emily Dickinson | 00:48:30 | 2017-05-11 12:35 | |
| The Battle of Lincoln 1217 | 00:53:10 | 2017-05-04 12:25 | |
| The Egyptian Book of the Dead | 00:46:34 | 2017-04-27 13:22 | |
| Roger Bacon | 00:50:33 | 2017-04-20 12:21 | |
| Rosa Luxemburg | 00:50:10 | 2017-04-13 12:45 | |
| Pauli's Exclusion Principle | 00:48:13 | 2017-04-06 12:15 | |
| Hokusai | 00:48:07 | 2017-03-30 13:40 | |
| The Battle of Salamis | 00:50:23 | 2017-03-23 12:02 | |
| The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum | 00:49:47 | 2017-03-16 12:34 | |
| North and South | 00:48:01 | 2017-03-09 11:57 | |
| The Kuiper Belt | 00:48:11 | 2017-03-02 12:03 | |
| Seneca the Younger | 00:51:25 | 2017-02-23 12:30 | |
| Maths in the Early Islamic World | 00:49:07 | 2017-02-16 12:24 | |
| John Clare | 00:48:15 | 2017-02-09 12:10 | |
| Hannah Arendt | 00:47:17 | 2017-02-02 12:10 | |
| Parasitism | 00:45:45 | 2017-01-26 12:54 | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | 00:52:19 | 2017-01-19 12:11 | |
| Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality | 00:48:03 | 2017-01-12 12:34 | |
| Johannes Kepler | 00:48:42 | 2016-12-29 12:30 | |
| Four Quartets | 00:48:31 | 2016-12-22 12:24 | |
| The Gin Craze | 00:52:06 | 2016-12-15 12:34 | |
| Harriet Martineau | 00:51:01 | 2016-12-08 12:25 | |
| Garibaldi and the Risorgimento | 00:49:32 | 2016-12-01 12:36 | |
| Baltic Crusades | 00:46:51 | 2016-11-24 13:40 | |
| Justinian's Legal Code | 00:47:05 | 2016-11-17 12:48 | |
| The Fighting Temeraire | 00:45:58 | 2016-11-10 12:28 | |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | 00:46:52 | 2016-11-03 12:37 | |
| John Dalton | 00:45:40 | 2016-10-27 12:14 | |
| The 12th Century Renaissance | 00:49:23 | 2016-10-20 13:23 | |
| Plasma | 00:45:53 | 2016-10-13 12:20 | |
| Lakshmi | 00:47:09 | 2016-10-06 12:15 | |
| Animal Farm | 00:51:17 | 2016-09-29 13:15 | |
| Zeno's Paradoxes | 00:46:30 | 2016-09-22 12:17 | |
| The Invention of Photography | 00:48:46 | 2016-07-07 12:26 | |
| Sovereignty | 00:47:21 | 2016-06-30 11:45 | |
| Songs of Innocence and of Experience | 00:49:59 | 2016-06-23 12:20 | |
| The Bronze Age Collapse | 00:47:12 | 2016-06-16 12:25 | |
| Penicillin | 00:46:35 | 2016-06-09 13:02 | |
| Margery Kempe and English Mysticism | 00:44:45 | 2016-06-02 12:14 | |
| The Gettysburg Address | 00:48:55 | 2016-05-26 12:16 | |
| The Muses | 00:45:29 | 2016-05-19 12:53 | |
| Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' | 00:49:05 | 2016-05-12 12:18 | |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 00:46:43 | 2016-05-05 12:39 | |
| Euclid's Elements | 00:45:36 | 2016-04-28 12:12 | |
| 1816, the Year Without a Summer | 00:45:32 | 2016-04-21 12:13 | |
| The Neutron | 00:45:30 | 2016-04-14 13:06 | |
| The Sikh Empire | 00:44:57 | 2016-04-07 12:14 | |
| Agrippina the Younger | 00:46:09 | 2016-03-31 12:15 | |
| Aurora Leigh | 00:46:52 | 2016-03-24 12:18 | |
| Bedlam | 00:46:57 | 2016-03-17 11:59 | |
| The Maya Civilization | 00:46:33 | 2016-03-10 13:30 | |
| The Dutch East India Company | 00:46:12 | 2016-03-03 12:10 | |
| Mary Magdalene | 00:44:34 | 2016-02-25 12:16 | |
| Robert Hooke | 00:48:11 | 2016-02-18 13:19 | |
| Rumi's Poetry | 00:46:44 | 2016-02-11 13:53 | |
| Chromatography | 00:47:14 | 2016-02-04 12:29 | |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | 00:44:49 | 2016-01-28 12:20 | |
| Thomas Paine's Common Sense | 00:45:40 | 2016-01-21 12:26 | |
| Saturn | 00:46:55 | 2016-01-14 12:46 | |
| Tristan and Iseult | 00:45:12 | 2015-12-31 12:30 | |
| Michael Faraday | 00:45:51 | 2015-12-24 12:30 | |
| Circadian Rhythms | 00:48:04 | 2015-12-17 12:25 | |
| Chinese Legalism | 00:45:27 | 2015-12-10 12:29 | |
| Voyages of James Cook | 00:47:16 | 2015-12-03 12:32 | |
| The Salem Witch Trials | 00:45:28 | 2015-11-26 12:35 | |
| Emma | 00:47:27 | 2015-11-19 12:50 | |
| The Battle of Lepanto | 00:48:18 | 2015-11-12 13:36 | |
| P v NP | 00:45:45 | 2015-11-05 12:06 | |
| The Empire of Mali | 00:47:47 | 2015-10-29 12:03 | |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 00:46:00 | 2015-10-22 13:39 | |
| Holbein at the Tudor Court | 00:46:30 | 2015-10-15 12:48 | |
| Alexander the Great | 00:47:13 | 2015-10-01 12:45 | |
| Perpetual Motion | 00:45:40 | 2015-09-24 13:49 | |
| Frida Kahlo | 00:45:37 | 2015-07-09 12:39 | |
| Frederick the Great | 00:48:19 | 2015-07-02 15:38 | |
| Extremophiles | 00:46:27 | 2015-06-25 12:36 | |
| Jane Eyre | 00:45:37 | 2015-06-18 17:29 | |
| Utilitarianism | 00:43:59 | 2015-06-11 12:03 | |
| Prester John | 00:44:41 | 2015-06-04 12:07 | |
| The Science of Glass | 00:45:57 | 2015-05-28 12:45 | |
| Josephus | 00:45:36 | 2015-05-21 13:05 | |
| The Lancashire Cotton Famine | 00:45:12 | 2015-05-14 12:45 | |
| Tagore | 00:46:36 | 2015-05-07 13:05 | |
| The Earth's Core | 00:46:41 | 2015-04-30 12:30 | |
| Fanny Burney | 00:44:25 | 2015-04-23 12:50 | |
| Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty | 00:45:24 | 2015-04-16 12:50 | |
| Sappho | 00:46:02 | 2015-04-09 12:45 | |
| The California Gold Rush | 00:45:52 | 2015-04-02 12:50 | |
| The Curies | 00:47:22 | 2015-03-26 13:30 | |
| Al-Ghazali | 00:44:12 | 2015-03-19 12:30 | |
| Dark Matter | 00:45:43 | 2015-03-12 12:45 | |
| Beowulf | 00:46:29 | 2015-03-05 12:20 | |
| The Eunuch | 00:46:41 | 2015-02-26 12:30 | |
| The Wealth of Nations | 00:46:05 | 2015-02-19 12:15 | |
| The Photon | 00:45:02 | 2015-02-12 12:05 | |
| Ashoka the Great | 00:46:36 | 2015-02-05 11:52 | |
| Thucydides | 00:45:39 | 2015-01-29 11:45 | |
| Phenomenology | 00:46:33 | 2015-01-22 13:15 | |
| Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent | 00:45:35 | 2015-01-15 12:30 | |
| Truth | 00:42:10 | 2014-12-18 11:30 | |
| Behavioural Ecology | 00:45:35 | 2014-12-11 12:30 | |
| Zen | 00:45:08 | 2014-12-04 12:40 | |
| Kafka's The Trial | 00:43:18 | 2014-11-27 13:55 | |
| Aesop | 00:45:22 | 2014-11-20 13:30 | |
| Brunel | 00:44:44 | 2014-11-13 12:30 | |
| Hatshepsut | 00:45:42 | 2014-11-06 18:00 | |
| Nuclear Fusion | 00:46:55 | 2014-10-30 12:45 | |
| The Haitian Revolution | 00:46:41 | 2014-10-23 12:55 | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 00:45:44 | 2014-10-16 13:55 | |
| The Battle of Talas | 00:45:24 | 2014-10-09 12:45 | |
| Julius Caesar | 00:46:30 | 2014-10-02 12:30 | |
| e | 00:45:19 | 2014-09-25 13:05 | |
| The Sun | 00:47:27 | 2014-07-10 12:20 | |
| Mrs Dalloway | 00:45:30 | 2014-07-03 13:05 | |
| Hildegard of Bingen | 00:44:33 | 2014-06-26 12:55 | |
| The Philosophy of Solitude | 00:47:06 | 2014-06-19 12:20 | |
| Robert Boyle | 00:46:36 | 2014-06-12 17:40 | |
| The Bluestockings | 00:46:32 | 2014-06-05 12:50 | |
| The Talmud | 00:47:48 | 2014-05-29 13:10 | |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | 00:47:07 | 2014-05-22 12:45 | |
| Photosynthesis | 00:46:47 | 2014-05-15 12:45 | |
| The Sino-Japanese War | 00:46:41 | 2014-05-08 12:45 | |
| The Tale of Sinuhe | 00:47:09 | 2014-05-01 12:30 | |
| Tristram Shandy | 00:47:25 | 2014-04-24 13:15 | |
| The Domesday Book | 00:47:44 | 2014-04-17 12:45 | |
| Strabo's Geographica | 00:47:47 | 2014-04-10 12:50 | |
| States of Matter | 00:47:07 | 2014-04-03 12:50 | |
| Weber's The Protestant Ethic | 00:50:40 | 2014-03-27 12:50 | |
| Bishop Berkeley | 00:47:29 | 2014-03-20 13:20 | |
| The Trinity | 00:42:11 | 2014-03-13 11:45 | |
| Spartacus | 00:41:59 | 2014-03-06 12:00 | |
| The Eye | 00:42:11 | 2014-02-27 12:00 | |
| Social Darwinism | 00:41:41 | 2014-02-20 12:00 | |
| Chivalry | 00:42:15 | 2014-02-13 11:45 | |
| The Phoenicians | 00:41:59 | 2014-02-06 12:00 | |
| Catastrophism | 00:41:54 | 2014-01-30 12:00 | |
| Sources of Early Chinese History | 00:42:19 | 2014-01-23 12:00 | |
| The Battle of Tours | 00:42:05 | 2014-01-16 11:45 | |
| Plato's Symposium | 00:42:11 | 2014-01-02 11:30 | |
| The Medici | 00:42:03 | 2013-12-26 11:45 | |
| Complexity | 00:41:49 | 2013-12-19 12:00 | |
| Pliny the Younger | 00:41:46 | 2013-12-12 12:20 | |
| Hindu Ideas of Creation | 00:41:57 | 2013-12-05 12:00 | |
| The Microscope | 00:42:10 | 2013-11-28 11:45 | |
| Pocahontas | 00:41:50 | 2013-11-21 12:00 | |
| The Tempest | 00:41:59 | 2013-11-14 12:00 | |
| Ordinary Language Philosophy | 00:41:57 | 2013-11-07 12:15 | |
| The Berlin Conference | 00:42:03 | 2013-10-31 12:15 | |
| The Corn Laws | 00:41:52 | 2013-10-24 12:30 | |
| The Book of Common Prayer | 00:42:00 | 2013-10-17 12:00 | |
| Galen | 00:42:03 | 2013-10-10 12:00 | |
| Exoplanets | 00:42:01 | 2013-10-03 11:45 | |
| The Mamluks | 00:42:05 | 2013-09-26 11:30 | |
| Pascal | 00:41:57 | 2013-09-19 11:30 | |
| The Invention of Radio | 00:41:59 | 2013-07-04 12:20 | |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | 00:42:07 | 2013-06-27 12:00 | |
| The Physiocrats | 00:42:01 | 2013-06-20 14:00 | |
| Prophecy | 00:42:06 | 2013-06-13 12:15 | |
| Relativity | 00:42:04 | 2013-06-06 12:00 | |
| Queen Zenobia | 00:42:00 | 2013-05-30 12:00 | |
| Lévi-Strauss | 00:42:03 | 2013-05-23 11:45 | |
| Cosmic Rays | 00:42:05 | 2013-05-16 11:45 | |
| Icelandic Sagas | 00:42:04 | 2013-05-09 11:45 | |
| Gnosticism | 00:42:06 | 2013-05-02 11:45 | |
| Montaigne | 00:42:03 | 2013-04-25 11:45 | |
| The Putney Debates | 00:41:56 | 2013-04-18 12:15 | |
| The Amazons | 00:42:12 | 2013-04-11 12:30 | |
| Japan's Sakoku Period | 00:42:02 | 2013-04-04 12:30 | |
| Water | 00:39:06 | 2013-03-28 13:00 | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | 00:42:09 | 2013-03-21 12:15 | |
| Chekhov | 00:42:03 | 2013-03-14 12:30 | |
| Absolute Zero | 00:42:11 | 2013-03-07 12:00 | |
| Pitt-Rivers | 00:41:41 | 2013-02-28 11:45 | |
| Decline and Fall | 00:41:58 | 2013-02-21 12:30 | |
| Ice Ages | 00:42:10 | 2013-02-14 12:45 | |
| Epicureanism | 00:42:12 | 2013-02-07 12:00 | |
| The War of 1812 | 00:42:09 | 2013-01-31 11:45 | |
| Romulus and Remus | 00:42:11 | 2013-01-24 11:45 | |
| Comets | 00:42:13 | 2013-01-17 12:00 | |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | 00:42:07 | 2013-01-10 12:30 | |
| The Cult of Mithras | 00:42:12 | 2012-12-27 12:00 | |
| The South Sea Bubble | 00:41:52 | 2012-12-20 14:00 | |
| Shahnameh of Ferdowsi | 00:42:06 | 2012-12-13 12:30 | |
| Bertrand Russell | 00:42:15 | 2012-12-06 12:30 | |
| Crystallography | 00:41:56 | 2012-11-28 18:18 | |
| The Borgias | 00:41:58 | 2012-11-22 12:30 | |
| Simone Weil | 00:42:06 | 2012-11-15 12:30 | |
| The Upanishads | 00:42:00 | 2012-11-08 12:30 | |
| The Anarchy | 00:42:12 | 2012-11-01 12:30 | |
| Fermat's Last Theorem | 00:42:06 | 2012-10-25 12:30 | |
| Caxton and the Printing Press | 00:41:59 | 2012-10-18 12:30 | |
| Hannibal | 00:42:01 | 2012-10-11 12:45 | |
| Gerald of Wales | 00:42:06 | 2012-10-04 12:30 | |
| The Ontological Argument | 00:42:11 | 2012-09-27 12:30 | |
| The Druids | 00:42:00 | 2012-09-20 12:30 | |
| The Cell | 00:42:03 | 2012-09-13 12:30 | |
| Hadrian's Wall | 00:42:00 | 2012-07-12 12:30 | |
| Scepticism | 00:42:09 | 2012-07-05 14:00 | |
| Al-Kindi | 00:41:53 | 2012-06-28 12:30 | |
| Annie Besant | 00:41:58 | 2012-06-21 12:45 | |
| James Joyce's Ulysses | 00:42:05 | 2012-06-14 12:30 | |
| King Solomon | 00:42:09 | 2012-06-07 12:30 | |
| The Trojan War | 00:41:55 | 2012-05-31 12:30 | |
| Marco Polo | 00:42:02 | 2012-05-24 12:30 | |
| Clausewitz and On War | 00:42:06 | 2012-05-17 12:30 | |
| Game Theory | 00:41:51 | 2012-05-10 12:30 | |
| Voltaire's Candide | 00:42:07 | 2012-05-03 12:30 | |
| The Battle of Bosworth Field | 00:42:06 | 2012-04-26 12:30 | |
| Neoplatonism | 00:41:57 | 2012-04-19 12:45 | |
| Early Geology | 00:42:15 | 2012-04-12 12:30 | |
| George Fox and the Quakers | 00:41:53 | 2012-04-05 12:30 | |
| The Measurement of Time | 00:41:54 | 2012-03-29 12:30 | |
| Moses Mendelssohn | 00:42:18 | 2012-03-22 12:00 | |
| Vitruvius and De Architectura | 00:42:19 | 2012-03-15 13:30 | |
| Lyrical Ballads | 00:42:17 | 2012-03-08 12:15 | |
| Benjamin Franklin | 00:42:00 | 2012-03-01 12:30 | |
| Conductors and Semiconductors | 00:41:59 | 2012-02-23 12:45 | |
| The An Lushan Rebellion | 00:42:03 | 2012-02-16 12:45 | |
| Erasmus | 00:41:58 | 2012-02-09 12:30 | |
| The Kama Sutra | 00:42:07 | 2012-02-02 13:45 | |
| The Scientific Method | 00:42:01 | 2012-01-26 13:15 | |
| 1848: Year of Revolution | 00:41:57 | 2012-01-19 12:15 | |
| The Safavid Dynasty | 00:42:08 | 2012-01-12 13:30 | |
| Macromolecules | 00:42:12 | 2011-12-29 12:30 | |
| Robinson Crusoe | 00:42:04 | 2011-12-22 13:15 | |
| The Concordat of Worms | 00:41:52 | 2011-12-15 12:00 | |
| Heraclitus | 00:41:57 | 2011-12-08 12:45 | |
| Christina Rossetti | 00:41:52 | 2011-12-01 12:30 | |
| Judas Maccabeus | 00:42:02 | 2011-11-24 12:30 | |
| Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy | 00:41:57 | 2011-11-17 12:30 | |
| The Continental-Analytic Split | 00:42:06 | 2011-11-10 11:45 | |
| The Moon | 00:42:03 | 2011-11-03 12:15 | |
| The Siege of Tenochtitlan | 00:42:08 | 2011-10-27 12:15 | |
| Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People | 00:41:57 | 2011-10-20 13:30 | |
| The Ming Voyages | 00:42:10 | 2011-10-13 12:00 | |
| David Hume | 00:42:10 | 2011-10-06 12:15 | |
| The Etruscan Civilisation | 00:42:08 | 2011-09-29 12:15 | |
| Shinto | 00:42:09 | 2011-09-22 12:13 | |
| The Hippocratic Oath | 00:42:11 | 2011-09-15 13:01 | |
| The Minoan Civilisation | 00:42:01 | 2011-07-07 11:38 | |
| Tennyson's In Memoriam | 00:42:06 | 2011-06-29 17:27 | |
| Malthusianism | 00:42:01 | 2011-06-22 18:34 | |
| Wyclif and the Lollards | 00:42:09 | 2011-06-16 08:32 | |
| The Origins of Infectious Disease | 00:41:56 | 2011-06-08 17:57 | |
| The Battle of Stamford Bridge | 00:42:00 | 2011-06-02 11:15 | |
| Xenophon | 00:42:09 | 2011-05-26 11:07 | |
| Custer's Last Stand | 00:42:06 | 2011-05-19 11:30 | |
| The Anatomy of Melancholy | 00:42:14 | 2011-05-12 14:30 | |
| Islamic Law and its Origins | 00:42:14 | 2011-05-05 14:00 | |
| Cogito Ergo Sum | 00:42:18 | 2011-04-28 11:00 | |
| The Pelagian Controversy | 00:42:15 | 2011-04-21 11:00 | |
| The Neutrino | 00:42:07 | 2011-04-14 10:58 | |
| Octavia Hill | 00:42:23 | 2011-04-07 11:30 | |
| The Bhagavad Gita | 00:41:53 | 2011-03-31 13:30 | |
| The Iron Age | 00:41:56 | 2011-03-24 11:45 | |
| The Medieval University | 00:41:42 | 2011-03-17 12:00 | |
| Free Will | 00:42:20 | 2011-03-10 11:23 | |
| The Age of the Universe | 00:42:14 | 2011-03-03 11:16 | |
| The Taiping Rebellion | 00:41:58 | 2011-02-24 08:40 | |
| Maimonides | 00:42:13 | 2011-02-15 13:33 | |
| The Nervous System | 00:42:11 | 2011-02-10 12:00 | |
| The Battle of Bannockburn | 00:42:05 | 2011-02-02 18:28 | |
| Aristotle's Poetics | 00:42:00 | 2011-01-27 08:46 | |
| The Mexican Revolution | 00:42:06 | 2011-01-20 12:14 | |
| Random and Pseudorandom | 00:42:06 | 2011-01-13 11:55 | |
| Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | 00:41:55 | 2011-01-06 08:36 | |
| Consequences of the Industrial Revolution | 00:42:16 | 2010-12-30 12:00 | |
| The Industrial Revolution | 00:42:16 | 2010-12-22 18:09 | |
| Daoism | 00:42:22 | 2010-12-15 16:57 | |
| Thomas Edison | 00:42:16 | 2010-12-09 11:51 | |
| Cleopatra | 00:42:06 | 2010-12-02 12:12 | |
| History of Metaphor | 00:42:05 | 2010-11-25 11:50 | |
| Foxe's Book of Martyrs | 00:42:08 | 2010-11-18 11:22 | |
| The Volga Vikings | 00:42:03 | 2010-11-11 12:08 | |
| Women and Enlightenment Science | 00:42:08 | 2010-11-04 11:23 | |
| The Unicorn | 00:41:59 | 2010-10-28 08:39 | |
| Logic | 00:42:14 | 2010-10-21 11:48 | |
| Sturm und Drang | 00:42:13 | 2010-10-14 11:31 | |
| The Spanish Armada | 00:42:06 | 2010-10-07 13:14 | |
| The Delphic Oracle | 00:42:05 | 2010-09-30 11:29 | |
| Imaginary Numbers | 00:42:10 | 2010-09-23 11:35 | |
| Pliny's Natural History | 00:42:17 | 2010-07-08 10:00 | |
| Athelstan | 00:42:07 | 2010-07-01 10:00 | |
| Antarctica | 00:42:12 | 2010-06-24 10:00 | |
| The Neanderthals | 00:42:13 | 2010-06-17 10:00 | |
| Edmund Burke | 00:42:06 | 2010-06-03 10:00 | |
| Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists | 00:41:53 | 2010-05-27 10:00 | |
| The Cavendish Family in Science | 00:42:03 | 2010-05-20 10:00 | |
| William James's 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' | 00:42:18 | 2010-05-13 10:00 | |
| The Cool Universe | 00:42:15 | 2010-05-06 10:00 | |
| The Great Wall of China | 00:41:52 | 2010-04-29 10:00 | |
| Roman Satire | 00:42:06 | 2010-04-22 02:00 | |
| The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall | 00:42:09 | 2010-04-15 02:00 | |
| William Hazlitt | 00:41:55 | 2010-04-08 02:00 | |
| The City - a history, part 2 | 00:42:14 | 2010-04-01 02:00 | |
| The City - a history, part 1 | 00:42:15 | 2010-03-25 01:00 | |
| Munch and The Scream | 00:41:32 | 2010-03-18 01:00 | |
| Boudica | 00:42:08 | 2010-03-11 01:00 | |
| The Infant Brain | 00:42:01 | 2010-03-04 01:00 | |
| Calvinism | 00:42:02 | 2010-02-25 01:00 | |
| The Indian Mutiny | 00:42:17 | 2010-02-18 01:00 | |
| Mathematics' Unintended Consequences | 00:41:54 | 2010-02-11 01:00 | |
| Ibn Khaldun | 00:42:15 | 2010-02-04 01:00 | |
| Silas Marner | 00:42:15 | 2010-01-28 01:00 | |
| The Glencoe Massacre | 00:42:08 | 2010-01-21 01:00 | |
| The Frankfurt School | 00:42:03 | 2010-01-14 01:00 | |
| The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4 | 00:41:46 | 2010-01-07 01:00 | |
| The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3 | 00:42:06 | 2010-01-06 01:00 | |
| The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2 | 00:41:53 | 2010-01-05 01:00 | |
| The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1 | 00:42:04 | 2010-01-04 01:00 | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | 00:41:59 | 2009-12-31 01:00 | |
| The Samurai | 00:42:05 | 2009-12-24 01:00 | |
| Pythagoras | 00:41:47 | 2009-12-10 01:00 | |
| The Silk Road | 00:42:15 | 2009-12-03 01:00 | |
| Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 00:42:19 | 2009-11-26 01:00 | |
| Sparta | 00:42:14 | 2009-11-19 01:00 | |
| Radiation | 00:42:07 | 2009-11-12 01:00 | |
| The Siege of Munster | 00:41:54 | 2009-11-05 01:00 | |
| Schopenhauer | 00:42:18 | 2009-10-29 01:00 | |
| The Geological Formation of Britain | 00:42:10 | 2009-10-22 02:00 | |
| The Death of Elizabeth I | 00:41:09 | 2009-10-15 02:00 | |
| The Dreyfus Affair | 00:42:21 | 2009-10-08 02:00 | |
| Akhenaten | 00:42:12 | 2009-10-01 02:00 | |
| Calculus | 00:42:07 | 2009-09-24 02:00 |