Accessibility links

Skip to content
Accessibility Help

Home
News
Sport
Weather
iPlayer
Sounds
Bitesize
CBeebies
CBBC
Food

Home
News
Sport
Business
Innovation
Culture
Travel
Earth
Video
Live

Home
News
Sport
Weather
iPlayer
Sounds
Bitesize
CBeebies
CBBC
Food

Home
News
Sport
Business
Innovation
Culture
Travel
Earth
Video
Live

.sc-c-sounds-nav { position: relative; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__menu-button { display: none; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__items { max-height: 500px; visibility: visible; position: static; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__overlay { display: none; } @media screen and (max-width: 659px) { .sc-c-sounds-nav__wrapper { padding-bottom: 0px; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__wordmark-link { padding-bottom: 18px; } }

Sounds home page

Home
Music
Podcasts
My Sounds

In Our Time - Rutherford - BBC Sounds

In Our Time - Rutherford - BBC Sounds

RutherfordRutherford

Released On: 19 Feb 2004

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.

Programme Website

Coming Up Next

now playing
In Our Time
Rutherford
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Mughal Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine how much the British Raj owed to the Mughal Emperors.
45 mins
In Our Time
Dreams
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
40 mins
In Our Time
The Norse Gods
Melvyn Bragg examines the myths and theology that inspired the Vikings.
45 mins
In Our Time
Theories of Everything
Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
45 mins
In Our Time
China's Warring States period
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing productivity of the Chinese Golden Age.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Fall
Melvyn Bragg examines the concept of original sin and its influence in Christian Europe.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Later Romantics
Melvyn Bragg examines the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.
45 mins
In Our Time
Hysteria
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
45 mins
In Our Time
Tea
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss tea, the first truly global commodity.
150 mins
In Our Time
Heroism
Melvyn Bragg explores what defines a hero, and their place in classical society.
45 mins
In Our Time
Zero
Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.
45 mins
In Our Time
Toleration
Melvyn Bragg looks at the politics behind the rise of religious freedom in England.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Planets
Melvyn Bragg examines our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.
45 mins
In Our Time
Babylon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth behind the empire of Babylon.
45 mins
In Our Time
Empiricism
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
45 mins
In Our Time
Renaissance Magic
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.
45 mins
In Our Time
Washington and the American Revolution
Melvyn Bragg examines the first President of the US and what drove him to revolution.
45 mins
In Our Time
Pi
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Odyssey
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monster filled epic, Homer’s Odyssey.
45 mins
In Our Time
Agincourt
The history and legacy of the English army's defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Origins of Life
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.
45 mins
In Our Time
Politeness
Melvyn Bragg examines the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.
45 mins
In Our Time
Sartre
The life and work of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Han Synthesis
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Han Synthesis philosophies of China.
45 mins
In Our Time
Witchcraft
The history of witchcraft in Reformation Europe.
45 mins
In Our Time
Rhetoric
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato.
45 mins
In Our Time
Electrickery
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
45 mins
In Our Time
Zoroastrianism
The history of Zoroastrianism, claimed to be the first monotheistic religion.
45 mins
In Our Time
Higgs Boson
The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
45 mins
In Our Time
The Venerable Bede
The life and work of the Venerable Bede who revolutionised Christian scholarship.
30 mins

Cymraeg
Gaeilge
Gàidhlig

BBC Sounds Help
Contacts, Privacy and Information
Help with Signing In
Newsletter

Explore the BBC

Home
News
Sport
Weather
iPlayer
Sounds
Bitesize
CBeebies
CBBC
Food

Home
News
Sport
Business
Innovation
Culture
Travel
Earth
Video
Live

Terms of Use
About the BBC
Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Cookies
Cookies
Accessibility Help
Parental Guidance
Contact the BBC
Make an editorial complaint
BBC emails for you
Advertise with us

Copyright © 2025 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.