In Our Time

Nefertiti

Condorcet

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

This BBC Radio 4 podcast episode of "In Our Time" features Melvyn Bragg and three Shakespeare scholars—Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, and Emma Smith—discussing Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." They delve into the play's setting in Illyria, its themes of love, desire, and social status, and the character of Malvolio a...

Vincent van Gogh

This podcast episode of "In Our Time" delves into the life and work of Vincent van Gogh, featuring a panel of art experts: Christopher Riopelle, Martin Bailey, and Frances Fowle. The discussion covers van Gogh's early life, his shift from art dealer to religious evangelist and then to self-taught artist, his exposure t...

Tiberius

Karl Barth

Edgar Allan Poe

Marguerite de Navarre

This BBC Radio 4 podcast episode of "In Our Time" features Melvyn Bragg and three guests—Emma Herdman, Sara Barker, and Emily Butterworth—discussing Marguerite de Navarre, a significant figure of the French Renaissance. The discussion covers Marguerite's early life and education, her complex relationship with the Catho...

The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Barbary Corsairs

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

In this episode of "In Our Time" from BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg leads a discussion with Sophia Connell, Roger Crisp, and Angie Hobbs about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. They explore the work's central questions about happiness and the good life, its structure, and its relationship to virtue and politics. The panel di...

Germinal

This BBC Radio 4 podcast episode of "In Our Time" features Robert Douglas-Fairhurst leading a discussion on Emile Zola's novel "Germinal" with Susan Harrow, Kate Griffiths, and Edmund Birch. The discussion covers Zola's life, his aims with the Rougon-Macquart series, and the plot, characters, and themes of Germinal, in...

Julian of Norwich

The Federalist Papers

In this episode of "In Our Time" from BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg leads a discussion with Frank Cogliano, Kathleen Burk, and Nicholas Guyatt about the Federalist Papers. The conversation explores the historical context of the papers, written in support of the new US Constitution in 1787, and the roles of Alexander Hamilt...

Plankton

This BBC Radio 4 podcast episode of "In Our Time" features a discussion on plankton with host Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and three guests: Carol Robinson, Christopher Lowe, and Abigail McQuatters-Gollop. The discussion covers the diversity, characteristics, and ecological significance of plankton, including their role in...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

In this episode of "In Our Time" from BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg leads a discussion with Patricia Clavin, Michael Cox, and Margaret MacMillan on John Maynard Keynes' "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The discussion explores the aftermath of World War I, the aims of the Paris Peace Conference, and Keynes' role an...

The Seventh Seal

In this episode of "In Our Time," Melvyn Bragg leads a discussion with Claire Thomson, Laura Hubner, and Jan Holmberg about Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal." They delve into the film's opening scene, its themes of death and religion, and Bergman's early life and influences, including "The Phantom Carriage." The...

Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain

Albert Einstein

This BBC Radio 4 podcast episode of "In Our Time" features a panel discussion about Albert Einstein's early life and groundbreaking work, particularly focusing on his "annus mirabilis" of 1905. The host, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, along with Richard Staley, Diana Kormos Buchwald, and John Heilbron, explore Einstein's ed...

Edward Gibbon (Summer Repeat)