Superconductivity

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.

• 50 mins

Tycho Brahe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

• 53 mins

Chartism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.

• 51 mins

Stevie Smith

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning

• 53 mins

Paul Erdős

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.

• 51 mins

Megaliths

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape.

• 50 mins

The Ramayana

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.

• 49 mins

Mercantilism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.

• 57 mins

Solon the Lawgiver

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC

• 51 mins

A Room of One's Own

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.

• 54 mins

Cnut

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dane who became a powerful King of England in 1016.

• 51 mins

The Battle of Crécy

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1346 conflict between the armies of France and England

• 50 mins

Linnaeus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.

• 50 mins

Walt Whitman

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.

• 49 mins

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.

• 48 mins

The Shimabara Rebellion

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan.

• 48 mins

Virgil's Georgics

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life

• 49 mins

Louis XIV: The Sun King

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and reign of the French king who built Versailles

• 47 mins

Mitochondria

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.

• 52 mins

Oedipus Rex

Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written

• 54 mins

Death in Venice

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.

• 48 mins

Elizabeth Anscombe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century moral philosopher.

• 54 mins

Jupiter

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.

• 53 mins

Albert Einstein

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.

• 49 mins

Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain

To mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain.

• 11 mins

The Seventh Seal

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death

• 50 mins

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Keynes' influential attack on the Treaty of Versailles

• 50 mins

Plankton

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.

• 48 mins

The Federalist Papers

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.

• 50 mins

Julian of Norwich

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.

• 50 mins