In Our Time Episodes Available now
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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
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The Fighting Temeraire (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's painting The Fighting Temeraire.
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Utilitarianism (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
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The Lancashire Cotton Famine (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Lancashire Cotton Famine
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Baltic Crusades (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards
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1816, the Year Without a Summer (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
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The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
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Paul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
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The Evolution of Horses
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
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The Valladolid Debate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dispute in 1550 over enslavement of native Americans.