In Our Time 2002-2007 BBC Radio 4 with Melvyn Bragg - 229 episodes for maintaining the belief in civilisation

1. IOT [2002-02-14] Anatomy - 2000 years of anatomical study.mp311.19MB
2. IOT [2002-02-21] Celts - What were the Celts in Britain really like.mp312.77MB
3. IOT [2002-02-28] Virtue - Is it derived from reason.mp314.38MB
4. IOT [2002-03-07] John Milton - Poet or politician.mp312.8MB
5. IOT [2002-03-14] Buddhism - Why has it captured the spirit of our age.mp39.5MB
6. IOT [2002-03-21] Marriage - Its various forms and the role of the State.mp39.47MB
7. IOT [2002-03-28] Artist - A special kind of human being.mp39.53MB
8. IOT [2002-04-04] ET - New life within our solar system.mp316.78MB
9. IOT [2002-04-11] Bohemia - What did it mean to be Bohemian.mp39.58MB
10. IOT [2002-04-25] Tolstoy - The influence of the Russian Novel.mp39.57MB
11. IOT [2002-05-02] Schrödinger's Cat - Quantum Mechanics .mp316.78MB
12. IOT [2002-05-09] Examined Life - Is an unexamined life worth living.mp39.52MB
13. IOT [2002-05-16] Chaos Theory - Is the universe chaotic or orderly.mp316.8MB
14. IOT [2002-05-23] History of drugs - Their role in medicine and the arts.mp316.78MB
15. IOT [2002-05-30] Grand Tour - What drove this desire for travel.mp39.52MB
16. IOT [2002-06-06] Soul - The key to our individuality as humans.mp39.59MB
17. IOT [2002-06-13] American West - Was it an 'experiment of liberty'.mp39.58MB
18. IOT [2002-06-20] Richard Wagner - His influence on the German spirit.mp39.56MB
19. IOT [2002-06-27] Cultural Imperialism - Should we try to prevent it.mp39.56MB
20. IOT [2002-07-04] Freedom - A principle worth fighting and dying for.mp39.55MB
21. IOT [2002-07-11] Psychoanalysis - Do people crave dictatorship.mp316.79MB
22. IOT [2002-07-18] History of Heritage.mp318.93MB
23. IOT [2002-10-17] Slavery and Empire - Were Britons also captives.mp314.35MB
24. IOT [2002-10-24] Scientist in history - Missionary or monster.mp316.76MB
25. IOT [2002-10-31] Architecture and power - Imagery of imperialism.mp314.34MB
26. IOT [2002-11-07] Human Nature - Innate or nurtured.mp314.34MB
27. IOT [2002-11-14] Victorian Realism - How real.mp314.36MB
28. IOT [2002-11-21] Cordoba and Muslim Spain - A culture of tolerance.mp314.31MB
29. IOT [2002-11-28] Imagination - Just what is it.mp314.22MB
30. IOT [2002-12-05] Scottish Enlightenment - How enlightened.mp314.37MB
31. IOT [2002-12-12] Disease - The fight against diseases and plagues .mp316.74MB
32. IOT [2002-12-19] Calendar - A history of the Calendar.mp316.58MB
33. IOT [2003-02-06] Epic - from Homer to Joyce.mp314.21MB
34. IOT [2003-02-13] Chance and Design in Evolution - Design in Nature.mp316.76MB
35. IOT [2003-02-20] Lindisfarne Gospels - Unifying Christianity in Britain.mp314.33MB
36. IOT [2003-02-27] Aztecs - Looking behind the myths.mp314.42MB
37. IOT [2003-03-06] Meteorology - Why does it still fascinate us.mp316.77MB
38. IOT [2003-03-13] Redemption - The concept of salvation.mp314.38MB
39. IOT [2003-03-20] Originality - Is it just a romantic notion.mp313.97MB
40. IOT [2003-03-27] Supernovas - The life cycle of stars.mp316.29MB
41. IOT [2003-04-03] Spanish Civil War - Causes and legacy.mp314MB
42. IOT [2003-04-17] Proust - His life and work.mp314.01MB
43. IOT [2003-04-24] Youth - From Adonis to James Dean.mp314.14MB
44. IOT [2003-05-01] Roman Britain - The effects of 400 years of occupation.mp39.52MB
45. IOT [2003-05-08] Jacobite Rebellion - Could it have succeeded.mp314.39MB
46. IOT [2003-05-15] Holy Grail - just a medieval myth.mp314.38MB
47. IOT [2003-05-22] Blood - Its religious, medical and moral significance.mp314.11MB
48. IOT [2003-05-29] Memory - and the brain.mp316.72MB
49. IOT [2003-06-05] Lunar Society - Scientific ferment 200 years ago.mp316.75MB
50. IOT [2003-06-12] Art of War - Maintaining the objective.mp314.32MB
51. IOT [2003-06-19] Aristocracy - How the ruling class survives.mp314.41MB
52. IOT [2003-06-26] East India Co - A corporate route to Empire.mp314.36MB
53. IOT [2003-07-03] Vulcanology - Significance of volcanoes.mp316.77MB
54. IOT [2003-07-10] Nature - From Homer to Darwin.mp316.76MB
55. IOT [2003-07-17] Apocalypse - Was it a revelation.mp314.45MB
56. IOT [2003-10-02] James Clerk Maxwell - Great 19th century physicist.mp316.72MB
57. IOT [2003-10-09] Bohemianism - A life of art, freedom & poverty.mp314.37MB
58. IOT [2003-10-16] Schism - Between East and West in Christianity.mp314.31MB
59. IOT [2003-10-23] Infinity - A brief history.mp316.77MB
60. IOT [2003-10-30] Robin Hood - The greatest of English myths.mp314.31MB
61. IOT [2003-11-06] Sensation - The best sellers of the 19th century.mp314.42MB
62. IOT [2003-11-13] Duty - Concepts of obligation.mp39.62MB
63. IOT [2003-11-20] Ageing the Earth - A journey in geological time.mp316.79MB
64. IOT [2003-11-27] St Bartholomew's Day Massacre - Slaughter in Paris.mp314.35MB
65. IOT [2003-12-04] Wittgenstein - A philosophy of linguistics.mp314.42MB
66. IOT [2003-12-11] Devil - A brief biography.mp314.36MB
67. IOT [2003-12-18] Alphabet - Its creation and development.mp314.41MB
68. IOT [2003-12-26] Lamarck and Natural Selection - The Lamarckian Heresy.mp322.7MB
69. IOT [2004-01-29] Cryptography - Secret history of ciphers and codes.mp316.71MB
70. IOT [2004-02-05] Battle of Thermopylae - Battle that defined East & West.mp314.34MB
71. IOT [2004-02-12] Sublime - Defining the state of awe.mp314.33MB
72. IOT [2004-02-19] Rutherford - The father of nuclear physics.mp316.74MB
73. IOT [2004-02-26] Mughal Empire - The glory of India.mp314.34MB
74. IOT [2004-03-04] Dreams - Is there a science of dreams.mp316.73MB
75. IOT [2004-03-11] Norse Gods - The great myths of pagan Europe.mp314.36MB
76. IOT [2004-03-18] Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.mp314.44MB
77. IOT [2004-03-25] Theories of Everything - Still the holy grail of physics.mp316.7MB
78. IOT [2004-04-01] China, The Warring States Period - The fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation.mp314.34MB
79. IOT [2004-04-08] Fall - How Adam and Eve affect us all.mp314.39MB
80. IOT [2004-04-15] Later Romantics - The world of Byron, Keats and Shelley.mp314.33MB
81. IOT [2004-04-22] Hysteria - The normal state of human beings.mp316.8MB
82. IOT [2004-04-29] Tea - An empire in a teacup.mp314.35MB
83. IOT [2004-05-06] Heroism - Do we live in an heroic age.mp314.29MB
84. IOT [2004-05-13] Zero - Everything about nothing.mp316.73MB
85. IOT [2004-05-20] Toleration - From medieval intolerance to religious freedom.mp314.37MB
86. IOT [2004-05-27] Planets - The astronomy of the 21st century.mp316.65MB
87. IOT [2004-06-03] Babylon - The great forgotten civilisation.mp314.29MB
88. IOT [2004-06-10] Empiricism - The English philosophy.mp314.36MB
89. IOT [2004-06-17] Renaissance Magic - The great passion of the age.mp314.3MB
90. IOT [2004-06-24] George Washington and the American Revolution - The most significant event in history.mp314.35MB
91. IOT [2004-09-02] Pi - The number that doesn't add up.mp316.75MB
92. IOT [2004-09-09] Odyssey - Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home.mp314.28MB
93. IOT [2004-09-16] Agincourt - The real facts behind the battle.mp314.36MB
94. IOT [2004-09-23] Origins of Life - How it all began.mp316.78MB
95. IOT [2004-09-30] Politeness - The great 18th century craze.mp314.36MB
96. IOT [2004-10-07] Jean-Paul Sartre - A man condemned to be free.mp314.24MB
97. IOT [2004-10-14] Han Synthesis - Creating the Chinese cosmos.mp314.3MB
98. IOT [2004-10-21] Witchcraft - Reformation Europe turned upon itself.mp314.4MB
99. IOT [2004-10-28] Rhetoric - From the original sophists to latter-day demagogues.mp314.34MB
100. IOT [2004-11-04] Electrickery - The origins of electricity.mp316.72MB
101. IOT [2004-11-11] Zoroastrianism - Was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism.mp314.33MB
102. IOT [2004-11-18] Higgs Boson - The search for the God particle.mp316.81MB
103. IOT [2004-11-25] Venerable Bede - The father of English history.mp314.4MB
104. IOT [2004-12-02] Carl Gustav Jung - Discovering the Self.mp316.71MB
105. IOT [2004-12-09] Machiavelli and the Italian City States - High politics and low cunning in the Italian Renaissanc.mp314.28MB
106. IOT [2004-12-16] Second Law of Thermodynamics - The most important thing you will ever know.mp316.8MB
107. IOT [2004-12-23] Faust - The original pact with the Devil.mp314.38MB
108. IOT [2004-12-30] Roman Republic - What were Rome's republican ideals.mp314.39MB
109. IOT [2005-01-06] Assassination of Tsar Alexander II - Did his killing cause the Russian Revolution.mp314.29MB
110. IOT [2005-01-13] The Mind-Body Problem - Does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind.mp314.3MB
111. IOT [2005-02-17] Cambrian Explosion - The big bang of evolutionary history.mp316.81MB
112. IOT [2005-02-24] Alchemy - Seeking the perfection of all things.mp316.77MB
113. IOT [2005-03-03] Stoicism - The search for inner calm.mp311.88MB
114. IOT [2005-03-10] Modernist Utopias - The original 21st century.mp312.01MB
115. IOT [2005-03-17] Dark Energy - The unknown force breaking the universe apart.mp311.84MB
116. IOT [2005-03-24] Angels - How they got their wings .mp312MB
117. IOT [2005-03-31] John Ruskin - A different kind of Victorian.mp311.94MB
118. IOT [2005-04-07] Alfred and the Battle of Edington - Without Alfred, no England.mp311.95MB
119. IOT [2005-04-14] Archaeology and Imperialism - Conquest of the past.mp312.01MB
120. IOT [2005-04-21] The Aeneid - The Roman history of the world.mp311.87MB
121. IOT [2005-04-28] Perception and the Senses - How do we see what we see.mp312MB
122. IOT [2005-05-05] Abelard and Heloise - Love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris.mp311.89MB
123. IOT [2005-05-19] Beauty - The philosophy of beauty.mp312.03MB
124. IOT [2005-05-26] Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France.mp311.98MB
125. IOT [2005-06-02] Renaissance Maths - The birth of modern mathematics.mp312MB
126. IOT [2005-06-09] Scriblerus Club - The satirists-in-chief of the 18th century.mp311.93MB
127. IOT [2005-06-16] Paganism in the Renaissance - How the classical gods returned to the Christian cities.mp312MB
128. IOT [2005-06-23] KT Boundary - Did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away.mp312.03MB
129. IOT [2005-06-30] Merlin - The original Welsh wizard.mp312MB
130. IOT [2005-07-07] Christopher Marlowe - Poet, spy, atheist, murder victim.mp311.93MB
131. IOT [2005-07-14] Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher.mp311.93MB
132. IOT [2005-09-29] Magnetism - An attractive history.mp311.91MB
133. IOT [2005-10-06] Field of the Cloth of Gold - A Renaissance entente cordiale.mp312MB
134. IOT [2005-10-13] Rise of the Mammals - Life in a cold climate.mp316.67MB
135. IOT [2005-10-20] Cynicism - Bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy.mp316.7MB
136. IOT [2005-10-27] Samuel Johnson and His Circle - Life with the professional man of letters.mp316.73MB
137. IOT [2005-11-03] Asteroids - Celestial bodies from the beginning of time.mp316.71MB
138. IOT [2005-11-10] Greyfriars and Blackfriars - Philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church.mp316.72MB
139. IOT [2005-11-17] Pragmatism - A practical philosophy fit for 20th century America.mp316.67MB
140. IOT [2005-11-24] Graviton - The quest for the theoretical gravity particle.mp316.65MB
141. IOT [2005-12-01] Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'.mp316.57MB
142. IOT [2005-12-08] Artificial Intelligence - The quest for a machine that can think.mp315.96MB
143. IOT [2005-12-15] Peterloo Massacre - Democratic protest and brutal repression.mp316.68MB
144. IOT [2005-12-22] Heaven - A journey through the afterlife.mp316.8MB
145. IOT [2005-12-29] Aeschylus' Oresteia - The birth of tragedy.mp316.97MB
146. IOT [2006-01-05] Oath - Guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world.mp316.75MB
147. IOT [2006-01-12] Prime Numbers - The building blocks of mathematics.mp316.79MB
148. IOT [2006-01-19] Relativism - The battle against transcendent knowledge.mp316.79MB
149. IOT [2006-01-26] Seventeenth Century Print Culture - Piety, populism and political protest.mp316.83MB
150. IOT [2006-02-02] Abbasid Caliphs - When Baghdad ruled the Muslim world.mp316.68MB
151. IOT [2006-02-09] Geoffrey Chaucer - The first Great English Poet.mp316.8MB
152. IOT [2006-02-16] Human Evolution - From early hominids to Homo sapiens.mp316.68MB
153. IOT [2006-02-23] Catherine the Great - The Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia.mp316.71MB
154. IOT [2006-03-02] Friendship - Thinking philosophically about our close companions.mp316.59MB
155. IOT [2006-03-09] Negative numbers - How they spread across civilizations.mp316.66MB
156. IOT [2006-03-16] Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel.mp316.72MB
157. IOT [2006-03-23] Royal Society - The first club for experimental science.mp316.77MB
158. IOT [2006-03-30] Carolingian Renaissance - The revival of early medieval Western Europe.mp316.67MB
159. IOT [2006-04-06] Goethe - Formation of a German cultural icon.mp316.65MB
160. IOT [2006-04-13] Oxford Movement - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century.mp316.79MB
161. IOT [2006-04-20] Search for Immunisation - and the battle against smallpox.mp316.76MB
162. IOT [2006-04-27] Great Exhibition - A wonder of the Victorian world.mp316.73MB
163. IOT [2006-05-04] Astronomy and Empire - The link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery.mp316.76MB
164. IOT [2006-05-11] Faeries - Supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans.mp314.36MB
165. IOT [2006-05-18] John Stuart Mill - One of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century.mp316.76MB
166. IOT [2006-05-25] Mathematics and Music - The science behind sound and composition.mp316.74MB
167. IOT [2006-06-01] Heart - Its anatomical and cultural history.mp316.8MB
168. IOT [2006-06-08] Uncle Tom's Cabin - The novel that started the American Civil War.mp316.75MB
169. IOT [2006-06-15] Carbon - The basis of life.mp316.78MB
170. IOT [2006-06-22] Spanish Inquisition - One of the most barbaric episodes in European history.mp316.74MB
171. IOT [2006-06-29] Galaxies - Extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter.mp316.76MB
172. IOT [2006-07-06] Pastoral Literature - The romantic idealisation of the countryside.mp316.77MB
173. IOT [2006-07-13] Greek Comedy - Sing as you revel and rout.mp316.49MB
174. IOT [2006-09-29] Alexander von Humboldt - The remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist.mp316.68MB
175. IOT [2006-10-05] Averroes - The battle between faith and reason.mp316.83MB
176. IOT [2006-10-12] Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church.mp316.75MB
177. IOT [2006-10-19] Needham Question - Did China lay the foundations of modern science.mp316.79MB
178. IOT [2006-10-26] Encyclopedie - The great project of the Enlightenment.mp316.75MB
179. IOT [2006-11-02] Poincare Conjecture - How a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of th.mp316.8MB
180. IOT [2006-11-09] Alexander Pope - 'Short is my date, but deathless my renown'.mp316.55MB
181. IOT [2006-11-16] The Peasants' Revolt - A lasting legacy for popular uprising.mp316.78MB
182. IOT [2006-11-23] Altruism - How can evolutionary biology explain it.mp316.73MB
183. IOT [2006-11-30] Speed of Light - A cosmic speed limit.mp316.75MB
184. IOT [2006-12-07] Anarchism - A question of authority.mp316.73MB
185. IOT [2006-12-14] Indian Maths - Laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number.mp316.74MB
186. IOT [2006-12-21] Hell - Its representation through the ages.mp316.75MB
187. IOT [2006-12-28] Siege of Constantinople - The end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire.mp316.75MB
188. IOT [2007-01-04] Jorge Luis Borges - The life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer.mp316.75MB
189. IOT [2007-01-11] Mars - The search for life on the Red Planet.mp316.6MB
190. IOT [2007-01-18] Jesuits - The school masters of Europe.mp316.64MB
191. IOT [2007-01-25] Archimedes - The Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments.mp316.81MB
192. IOT [2007-02-01] Genghis Khan - Founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires.mp316.55MB
193. IOT [2007-02-08] Karl Popper - His ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science.mp316.75MB
194. IOT [2007-02-15] Heart of Darkness - One of the most influential novels of the 20th century.mp316.83MB
195. IOT [2007-02-22] William Wilberforce - The man and his legacy.mp317.08MB
196. IOT [2007-03-01] History of Optics - From telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world.mp316.76MB
197. IOT [2007-03-08] Microbiology - The story of the invisible masters of the universe.mp316.64MB
198. IOT [2007-03-15] Epistolary Literature - Great novels of fictional letters.mp316.77MB
199. IOT [2007-03-22] Bismarck - The Iron Chancellor.mp316.75MB
200. IOT [2007-03-29] Anaesthetics - From ether frolics to pain-free surgery.mp316.67MB
201. IOT [2007-04-05] St Hilda - The life and times of the Abbess of Whitby.mp316.78MB
202. IOT [2007-04-12] Opium Wars - A conflict that was to affect British-Chinese relations for generations.mp316.43MB
203. IOT [2007-04-19] Symmetry - The pattern at the heart of our physical world.mp316.76MB
204. IOT [2007-04-26] Greek and Roman Love Poetry - The pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus.mp316.72MB
205. IOT [2007-05-03] Spinoza - Believed that God and Nature were the same thing.mp316.78MB
206. IOT [2007-05-10] Victorian Pessimism - Fear and loathing in the late 19th century.mp316.68MB
207. IOT [2007-05-17] Gravitational Waves - A new window on the universe.mp316.81MB
208. IOT [2007-05-24] The Siege of Orleans - Did Joan of Arc really rescue France.mp316.8MB
209. IOT [2007-05-31] Ockham's Razor - Cutting medieval philosophy down to size.mp316.75MB
210. IOT [2007-06-07] Siegfried Sassoon - The poet who survived.mp316.71MB
211. IOT [2007-06-14] Renaissance Astrology - We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied....mp316.74MB
212. IOT [2007-06-21] Common Sense Philosophy - 'There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it'.mp316.76MB
213. IOT [2007-06-28] Permian-Triassic Boundary - When 95% of life was killed off.mp316.76MB
214. IOT [2007-07-05] Pilgrim Fathers - The original American dream.mp316.75MB
215. IOT [2007-07-12] Trial of Madame Bovary - Madame Bovary, c'est moi!.mp316.66MB
216. IOT [2007-09-27] Socrates - The man and the myth.mp319.13MB
217. IOT [2007-10-04] Antimatter - Where has it all gone.mp319.21MB
218. IOT [2007-10-11] Divine Right of Kings - There's such divinity doth hedge a king.mp318.95MB
219. IOT [2007-10-18] Arabian Nights - The art of story-telling.mp319.15MB
220. IOT [2007-10-25] Taste - The good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain.mp319.21MB
221. IOT [2007-11-01] Guilt - what is it good for.mp319.24MB
222. IOT [2007-11-08] Avicenna - Wine, women and philosophy.mp319.04MB
223. IOT [2007-11-15] The Discovery of Oxygen - Feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry.mp319.14MB
224. IOT [2007-11-22] Prelude - The greatest poem in the English language.mp319.15MB
225. IOT [2007-11-29] Fibonacci Sequence - The numbers in nature.mp319.25MB
226. IOT [2007-12-06] Genetic Mutation - The error-strewn secrets of life.mp319.1MB
227. IOT [2007-12-13] The Sassanian Empire - In the shadow of Ancient Persia.mp319.08MB
228. IOT [2007-12-20] The Four Humours - Yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm in the original theory of everything.mp319.16MB
229. IOT [2007-12-27] Nicene Creed - When Christ became God.mp319.2MB