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

Germinal

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.

• 51 mins

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on how to live a good life.

• 52 mins

The Barbary Corsairs

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of North African privateers on law and language

• 52 mins

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.

• 55 mins

Marguerite de Navarre

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.

• 46 mins

Edgar Allan Poe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.

• 58 mins

Karl Barth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.

• 55 mins

Tiberius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.

• 53 mins

Vincent van Gogh

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.

• 56 mins

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.

• 53 mins