List of In Our Time programmes
In Our Time is a discussion programme on the history of ideas; it has been hosted since 1998 by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. Since 2011, the entire archive has been available to download as individual podcasts.[1]
2016–2017
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2016 | Garibaldi and the Risorgimento | Lucy Riall, Professor of Comparative History of Europe at the European University Institute and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London Eugenio Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge David Laven, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham[2] |
| 24 November 2016 | Baltic Crusades | Aleks Pluskowski, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading Nora Berend, Fellow of St Catharine's College and Reader in European History at the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture[3] |
| 17 November 2016 | Justinian's Legal Code | Caroline Humfress, Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews Simon Corcoran, Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University Paul du Plessis, Senior Lecturer in Civil law and European legal history at the School of Law University of Edinburgh[4] |
| 10 November 2016 | The Fighting Temeraire | Susan Foister, Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting at the National Gallery David Blayney Brown, Manton Curator of British Art 1790-1850 at Tate Britain James Davey , Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum[5] |
| 3 November 2016 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian at SOAS, University of London Frances Reynolds Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Benet's Hall Martin Worthington Lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Cambridge[6] |
| 27 October 2016 | John Dalton | Jim Bennett, Associate Former Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Keeper Emeritus at the Science Museum Aileen Fyfe, Reader in British History at the University of St Andrews James Sumner, Lecturer in the History of Technology at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester[7] |
| 20 October 2016 | The 12th Century Renaissance | Laura Ashe, Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, University of Oxford Elisabeth van Houts, Honorary Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Cambridge Giles Gasper, Reader in Medieval History at Durham University[8] |
| 13 October 2016 | Plasma | Justin Wark, Professor of Physics and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Oxford Kate Lancaster, Research Fellow for Innovation and Impact at the York Plasma Institute at the University of York Bill Graham, Professor of Physics at Queen's University Belfast[9] |
| 6 October 2016 | Lakshmi | Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent, Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford Jacqueline Suthren-Hirst, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Manchester Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University[10] |
| 29 September 2016 | Animal Farm | Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge Mary Vincent, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield Robert Colls, Professor of Cultural History at De Montfort University[11] |
| 22 September 2016 | Zeno's Paradoxes | Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford Barbara Sattler, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews James Warren, Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge[12] |
2015–2016
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 07 July 2016 | The Invention of Photography | Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge Elizabeth Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Photographic History at De Montfort University Alison Morrison-Low, Research Associate at National Museums of Scotland[13] |
| 30 June 2016 | Sovereignty | Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London Tim Stanton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York[14] |
| 23 June 2016 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience | Sir Jonathan Bate, Provost of Worcester College, University of Oxford Sarah Haggarty, Lecturer at the Faculty of English and Fellow of Queens' College, University of Cambridge Jon Mee, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York[15] |
| 16 June 2016 | The Bronze Age Collapse | John Bennet, Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield Linda Hulin, Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Research Officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford Simon Stoddart, Fellow of Magdalene College and Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge[16] |
| 9 June 2016 | Penicillin | Laura Piddock, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Birmingham Christoph Tang, Professor of Cellular Pathology and Professorial Fellow at Exeter College at the University of Oxford Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London[17] |
| 2 June 2016 | Margery Kempe and English Mysticism | Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London Katherine Lewis, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London[18] |
| 26 May 2016 | The Gettysburg Address | Catherine Clinton, Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas and International Professor at Queen's University Belfast Susan-Mary Grant, Professor of American History at Newcastle University Tim Lockley, Professor of American History at the University of Warwick[19] |
| 19 May 2016 | The Muses | Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and A. G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield Penelope Murray, Founder member and retired Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Warwick[20] |
| 12 May 2016 | Titus Oates and his Popish Plot | Clare Jackson, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in History at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Mark Knights, Professor of History at the University of Warwick Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth University[21] |
| 5 May 2016 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact at the University of Liverpool Francis O'Gorman, Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds Jane Thomas, Reader in Victorian and early Twentieth Century literature at the University of Hull[22] |
| 28 April 2016 | Euclid's Elements | Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck, University of London June Barrow-Green, Professor of the History of Mathematics at the Open University[23] |
| 21 April 2016 | 1816, the Year Without a Summer | Clive Oppenheimer, Professor of Volcanology at the University of Cambridge Jane Stabler, Professor in Romantic Literature at the University of St Andrews Lawrence Goldman, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London[24] |
| 14 April 2016 | The Neutron | Val Gibson, Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Light Source and Professor in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh Frank Close, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford[25] |
| 7 April 2016 | The Sikh Empire | Gurharpal Singh, Professor in Inter-Religious Relations and Development at SOAS, University of London Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews Susan Stronge, Senior Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum[26] |
| 31 March 2016 | Agrippina the Younger | Catharine Edwards, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London Alice König, Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews Matthew Nicholls, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading[27] |
| 24 March 2016 | Aurora Leigh | Margaret Reynolds, Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London Daniel Karlin, Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol Karen O'Brien, Professor of English Literature at King's College London[28] |
| 17 March 2016 | Bedlam | Hilary Marland, Professor of History at the University of Warwick Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London and President of the Historical Association Jonathan Andrews, Reader in the History of Psychiatry at Newcastle University[29] |
| 10 March 2016 | The Maya Civilization | Elizabeth Graham, Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University Benjamin Vis, Eastern ARC Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Kent[30] |
| 3 March 2016 | The Dutch East India Company | Anne Goldgar, Reader in Early Modern European History at King's College London Chris Nierstrasz, Lecturer in Global History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, formerly at the University of Warwick Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton[31] |
| 25 February 2016 | Mary Magdalene | Joanne Anderson, Lecturer in Art History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London Eamon Duffy, Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College Joan Taylor, Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London[32] |
| 18 February 2016 | Robert Hooke | David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York Patricia Fara, President Elect of the British Society for the History of Science Rob Iliffe, Professor of History of Science at University of Oxford[33] |
| 11 February 2016 | Rumi's Poetry | Alan Williams, British Academy Wolfson Research Professor at the University of Manchester Carole Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews and Professor Emerita of University of Edinburgh Lloyd Ridgeon, Reader in Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow[34] |
| 4 February 2016 | Chromatography | Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at University College London Apryll Stalcup, Professor of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University Leon Barron, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at King's College London[35] |
| 28 January 2016 | Eleanor of Aquitaine | Lindy Grant, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading Nicholas Vincent, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia Julie Barrau, University Lecturer in British Medieval History at the University of Cambridge[36] |
| 21 January 2016 | Thomas Paine's Common Sense | Kathleen Burk, Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London Nicholas Guyatt, University Lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of American History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College[37] |
| 14 January 2016 | Saturn | Carolin Crawford, Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge Michele Dougherty, Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London Andrew Coates, Deputy Director in charge of the Solar System at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London[38] |
| 31 December 2015 | Tristan and Iseult | Laura Ashe, Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, University of Oxford Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University Mark Chinca, Reader in Medieval German Literature at the University of Cambridge[39] |
| 25 December 2015 | Michael Faraday | Geoffrey Cantor, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Leeds Laura Herz, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution[40] |
| 17 December 2015 | Circadian rhythms | Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford Debra Skene, Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Surrey Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London[41] |
| 10 December 2015 | Chinese Legalism | Frances Wood, Former Curator of the Chinese Collections at the British Library Hilde de Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University Roel Sterckx, Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History at the University of Cambridge[42] |
| 3 December 2015 | Voyages of James Cook | Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge Rebekah Higgitt, Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Kent Sophie Forgan, Retired Principal Lecturer at the University of Teesside, and Chairman of Trustees of the Captain Cook Museum, Whitby[43] |
| 29 November 2015 | The Salem Witch Trials | Susan Castillo, Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor of American Studies at King's College London Simon Middleton, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield Marion Gibson, Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter[44] |
| 19 November 2015 | Emma | Janet Todd, Professor Emerita of Literature, University of Aberdeen, and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London Emma Clery, Professor of English at the University of Southampton[45] |
| 12 November 2015 | Battle of Lepanto | Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford Kate Fleet, Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies and Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow in History at All Souls College, University of Oxford[46] |
| 5 November 2015 | P v NP | Colva Roney-Dougal, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews Timothy Gowers, Royal Society Research Professor in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge Leslie Ann Goldberg, Professor of Computer Science and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford[47] |
| 29 October 2015 | The Empire of Mali | Amira Bennison, Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib at the University of Cambridge Marie Rodet, Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS Kevin MacDonald, Professor of African Archaeology, Chair of the African Studies Programme at University College London[48] |
| 22 October 2015 | Simone de Beauvoir | Christina Howells, Professor of French and Fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford Margaret Atack, Professor of French at the University of Leeds Ursula Tidd, Professor of Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Manchester[49] |
| 15 October 2015 | Holbein at the Tudor Court | Susan Foister, Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting at the National Gallery John Guy, a fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge Maria Hayward, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton[50] |
| 1 October 2015 | Alexander the Great | Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge Diana Spencer, Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham Rachel Mairs, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading[51] |
| 24 September 2015 | Perpetual Motion | Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Durham University Frank Close, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford Steven Bramwell, Professor of Physics and former Professor of Chemistry at University College London [52] |
2014–2015
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2015 | Frida Kahlo | Patience Schell, Chair in Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen Valerie Fraser, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Art at the University of Essex Alan Knight, Emeritus Professor of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford [53] |
| 2 July 2015 | Frederick the Great | Tim Blanning, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge Katrin Kohl, Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College Thomas Biskup, Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull[54] |
| 25 June 2015 | Extremophiles | Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology at Birkbeck, University of London Nick Lane, Reader in Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London[55] |
| 18 June 2015 | Jane Eyre | Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Liverpool Karen O'Brien, Vice Principal and Professor of English Literature at King's College London Sara Lyons, Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent[56] |
| 11 June 2015 | Utilitarianism | Melissa Lane, The Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University Janet Radcliffe Richards, Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oxford Brad Hooker, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading[57] |
| 4 June 2015 | Prester John | Marianne O'Doherty, Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture Amanda Power, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield[58] |
| 28 May 2015 | The Science of Glass | Paul McMillan, Professor of Chemistry at University College London Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge Jim Bennett, Former Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Keeper Emeritus at the Science Museum[59] |
| 21 May 2015 | Josephus | Tessa Rajak, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, University of Reading Philip Alexander, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University of Manchester Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford and President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies[60] |
| 14 May 2015 | Lancashire Cotton Famine | Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews Emma Griffin, Professor of History at the University of East Anglia David Brown, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at University of Manchester[61] |
| 7 May 2015 | Rabindranath Tagore | Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews Bashabi Fraser, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University John Stevens, Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London[62] |
| 30 April 2015 | The Earth's core | Stephen Blundell, Professor of Physics and Fellow of Mansfield College at the University of Oxford Arwen Deuss, Associate Professor in Seismology at Utrecht University Simon Redfern, Professor of Mineral Physics at the University of Cambridge[63] |
| 23 April 2015 | Fanny Burney | Nicole Pohl, Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London John Mullan,Professor of English at University College London.[64] |
| 16 April 2015 | Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty | Mary Laven, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford Anne Gerritsen, Reader in History at the University of Warwick[65] |
| 9 April 2015 | Sappho | Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at Kings College, London Margaret Reynolds, Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London Dirk Obbink, Professor of Papyrology and Greek Literature at the University of Oxford[66] |
| 2 April 2015 | The California Gold Rush | Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London[67] Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia[67] Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh[67] |
| 26 March 2015 | The Curies | Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor of Clare College, University of Cambridge[68] Robert Fox,[69] Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford[68] Steven T Bramwell, Professor of Physics and former Professor of Chemistry at University College London[68] |
| 19 March 2015 | Al-Ghazali | Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich[70] Carole Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic History at Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities[70] Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter[70] |
| 12 March 2015 | Dark matter | Carolin Crawford, Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge and Gresham Professor of Astronomy[71] Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics and Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at the University of Durham[71] Anne Green, Reader in Physics at the University of Nottingham[71] |
| 5 March 2015 | Beowulf | Laura Ashe, Associate Professor in English at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College[72] Clare Lees, Professor of Medieval English Literature and History of the Language at King's College London[72] Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford[72] |
| 26 February 2015 | The Eunuch | Karen Radner, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London,[73] Shaun Tougher, Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University,[73] Michael Hoeckelmann, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at King's College London[73] |
| 19 February 2015 | Wealth of Nations | Richard Whatmore, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews,[74] Donald Winch, Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex,[74] Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton[74] |
| 12 February 2015 | The Photon | Frank Close, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford,[75] Wendy Flavell, Professor of Surface Physics at the University of Manchester,[75] Susan Cartwright, Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield.[75] |
| 5 February 2015 | Ashoka the Great | Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies[76] Naomi Appleton, Chancellor's Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh,[76] Richard Gombrich, Founder and Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford[76] |
| 29 January 2015 | Thucydides | Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge,[77] Katherine Harloe, Associate Professor in Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading,[77] Neville Morley, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol[77] |
| 22 January 2015 | Phenomenology | Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy in the European Institute at the London School of Economics[78] Joanna Hodge, Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University[78] Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy and Tutor at New College, Oxford[78] |
| 15 January 2015 | Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent |
Louise Milne, Lecturer in Visual Culture in the School of Art at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University[79] Jeanne Nuechterlein, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of York[79] Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and Head of the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London[79] |
| 18 December 2014 | Truth | Simon Blackburn, Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities [80] Jennifer Hornsby, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London[80] Crispin Wright, Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, and Professor of Philosophy at New York University[80] |
| 11 December 2014 | Behavioural ecology | Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics, School of Life and Medical Sciences at University College London[81] Rebecca Kilner, Professor of Evolutionary biology at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge[81] Lord Krebs, Principal at Jesus College Oxford[81] |
| 4 December 2014 | Zen | Tim Barrett, Emeritus Professor at Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London[82] Dr Lucia Dolce, Numata Reader in Japanese Buddhism at SOAS, University of London[82] Dr Eric Greene, Lecturer in East Asian Religions at the University of Bristol[82] |
| 27 November 2014 | Kafka's The Trial | Elizabeth Boa, Emeritus Professor of German, University of Nottingham[83] Steve Connor, Professor of English, Peterhouse, Cambridge[83] Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, The Queen's College, Oxford[83] |
| 20 November 2014 | Aesop | Pavlos Avlamis, Faculty of Classics Research Lecturer, Trinity College, Oxford,[84] Dr Lucy Grig, Senior Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Edinburgh,[84] Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge[84] |
| 13 November 2014 | Brunel | Julia Elton, Past President of the Newcomen Society,[85] Dr Ben Marsden, Senior Lecturer, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen,[85] Crosbie Smith, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Kent[85] |
| 06 November 2014 | Hatshepsut | Elizabeth Frood, Associate Professor of Egyptology; Fellow of St Cross College the University of Oxford,[86] Kate Spence, Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge,[86] Campbell Price, Curator of Department of Egypt & Syria, Manchester Museum (The University of Manchester)[86] |
| 30 October 2014 | Nuclear Fusion | Philippa Browning, Professor of Astrophysics, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester[87] Steve Cowley, Professor in Plasma Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics Imperial College, London[87] Justin Wark, Professor of Physics, University of Oxford[87] |
| 23 October 2014 | The Haitian Revolution | Kate Hodgson, Doctor of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool[88] Tim Lockley, School of Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick[88] Dr Karen Salt, Research Fellow at School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen[88] |
| 16 October 2014 | Rudyard Kipling | Howard Booth, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester[89] Professor Daniel Karlin, Research Fellow in English, Winterstoke Professor of English, University of Bristol[89] Jan Montefiore, Professor of 20th Century English Literature, University of Kent[89] |
| 9 October 2014 | The Battle of Talas | Hilde de Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University,[89] Michael Höckelmann, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at King's College London,[89] Hugh Kennedy, Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.[90] |
| 2 October 2014 | Julius Caesar | Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford,[91] Catherine Steel, Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow,[91] Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London.[91] |
| 25 September 2014 | e | Colva Roney-Dougal, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews,[92] June Barrow-Green, Senior Lecturer in the History of Maths at the Open University,[92] Vicky Neale, Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute and Balliol College, Oxford.[92] |
2013–2014
2012–2013
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2013 | The Invention of Radio | Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge,[136] Elizabeth Bruton, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds,[136] John Liffen, Curator of Communications at the Science Museum, London.[136] |
| 27 June 2013 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Frances Wood, Former Lead Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library,[137] Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford,[137] Margaret Hillenbrand, University Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College.[137] |
| 20 June 2013 | The Physiocrats | Richard Whatmore, Professor of Intellectual History & the History of Political Thought at the University of Sussex,[138] Joel Felix, Professor of History at the University of Reading,[138] Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton.[138] |
| 13 June 2013 | Prophecy | Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh,[139] Justin Meggitt, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion and the Origins of Christianity at the University of Cambridge,[139] Jonathan Stökl, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Leiden University.[139] |
| 6 June 2013 | Relativity | Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Durham University,[140] Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge,[140] Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.[140] |
| 30 May 2013 | Queen Zenobia | Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King's College London,[141] Kate Cooper, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester,[141] Richard Stoneman, Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.[141] |
| 23 May 2013 | Lévi-Strauss | Adam Kuper, Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Boston University,[142] Christina Howells, Professor of French at Oxford University,[142] Vincent Debaene, Associate Professor of French Literature at Columbia University.[142] |
| 16 May 2013 | Cosmic Rays | Carolin Crawford, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and a member of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge,[143] Alan Watson, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Leeds,[143] Tim Greenshaw, Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool.[143] |
| 9 May 2013 | Icelandic Sagas | Carolyne Larrington, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford,[144] Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the University of Cambridge,[144] Emily Lethbridge, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík.[144] |
| 2 May 2013 | Gnosticism | Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture,[145] Caroline Humfress, Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London,[145] Alastair Logan, Honorary University Fellow of the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.[145] |
| 25 April 2013 | Montaigne | David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at York University,[146] Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford,[146] Felicity Green, Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh.[146] |
| 18 April 2013 | Putney Debates | Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London,[147] Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University,[147] Kate Peters, Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.[147] |
| 11 April 2013 | Amazons | Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University,[148] Chiara Franceschini, Teaching Fellow at University College London and an Academic Assistant at the Warburg Institute,[148] Caroline Vout, University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Christ's College, Cambridge.[148] |
| 4 April 2013 | Japan's Sakoku Period | Richard Bowring, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge,[149] Andrew Cobbing, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham,[149] Rebekah Clements, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London.[149] |
| 28 March 2013 | Water | Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge,[150] Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at University College London,[150] Patricia Hunt, Research Fellow of Queens' College and Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.[150] |
| 21 March 2013 | Alfred Russel Wallace | Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London,[151] George Beccaloni, Curator of Cockroaches and Related Insects and Director of the Wallace Correspondence Project at the Natural History Museum,[151] Ted Benton, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.[151] |
| 14 March 2013 | Chekhov | Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford,[152] Cynthia Marsh, Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature at the University of Nottingham,[152] Rosamund Bartlett, Founding Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation and former Reader in Russian at the University of Durham.[152] |
| 7 March 2013 | Absolute Zero | Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge,[153] Stephen Blundell, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford,[153] Nicola Wilkin, Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Birmingham.[153] |
| 28 February 2013 | Pitt Rivers | Adam Kuper, Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Boston University,[154] Richard Bradley, Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading,[154] Dan Hicks, University Lecturer & Curator of Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.[154] |
| 21 February 2013 | Decline and Fall | David Bradshaw, Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford,[155] John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York,[155] Ann Pasternak Slater, Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.[155] |
| 14 February 2013 | Ice Ages | Jane Francis, Professor of Paleoclimatology at the University of Leeds,[156] Richard Corfield, Research Fellow in Geology at the University of Oxford,[156] Carrie Lear, Senior Lecturer in Palaeoceanography at Cardiff University.[156] |
| 7 February 2013 | Epicureanism | Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield,[157] David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge,[157] James Warren, Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge[157] |
| 31 January 2013 | The War of 1812 | Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London,[158] Lawrence Goldman, Fellow in Modern History at St Peter's College, University of Oxford,[158] Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh.[158] |
| 24 January 2013 | Romulus and Remus | Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,[159] Peter Wiseman, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter,[159] Tim Cornell, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester.[159] |
| 17 January 2013 | Comets | Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University,[160] Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge,[160] Don Pollacco, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Warwick.[160] |
| 10 January 2013 | Le Morte d'Arthur | Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge,[161] Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature and Head of Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York,[161] Laura Ashe, CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College at the University of Oxford.[161] |
| 27 December 2012 | The Cult of Mithras | Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews,[162] Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS, University of London,[162] John North, Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.[162] |
| 20 December 2012 | The South Sea Bubble | Anne Murphy, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire,[163] Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton,[163] Roey Sweet, Head of the School of History at the University of Leicester.[163] |
| 13 December 2012 | Shahnameh of Ferdowsi | Narguess Farzad, Senior Fellow in Persian at SOAS, University of London,[164] Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at Pembroke College, Cambridge,[164] Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Middle Eastern Coins at the British Museum.[164] |
| 6 December 2012 | Bertrand Russell | AC Grayling, Master of the New College of the Humanities and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford,[165] Mike Beaney, Professor of Philosophy at the University of York,[165] Hilary Greaves, Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.[165] |
| 29 November 2012 | Crystallography | Judith Howard, Director of the Biophysical Sciences Institute and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Durham,[166] Chris Hammond, Life Fellow in Material Science at the University of Leeds,[166] Mike Glazer, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Warwick.[166] |
| 22 November 2012 | The Borgias | Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London,[167] Catherine Fletcher, Lecturer in Public History at the University of Sheffield,[167] Christine Shaw, Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.[167] |
| 15 November 2012 | Simone Weil | Beatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex,[168] Stephen Plant, Runcie Fellow and Dean of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge,[168] David Levy, Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.[168] |
| 8 November 2012 | The Upanishads | Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford,[169] Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University,[169] Simon Brodbeck, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Cardiff.[169] |
| 01 November 2012 | The Anarchy | John Gillingham, Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science,[170] Louise Wilkinson, Reader in Medieval History at Canterbury Christ Church University,[170] David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.[170] |
| 25 October 2012 | Fermat's Last Theorem | Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics & Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford,[171] Vicky Neale, Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge,[171] Samir Siksek, Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick[171] |
| 18 October 2012 | Caxton and the Printing Press | Richard Gameson, Professor of the History of the Book at the University of Durham,[172] Julia Boffey, Professor of Medieval Studies in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London,[172] David Rundle, Member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford[172] |
| 11 October 2012 | Hannibal | Ellen O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol,[173] Mark Woolmer, Senior Tutor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham,[173] Louis Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University[173] |
| 4 October 2012 | Gerald of Wales | Henrietta Leyser, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford,[174] Michelle Brown, Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London,[174] Huw Pryce, Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University[174] |
| 27 September 2012 | The Ontological Argument | John Haldane Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews,[175] Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford,[175] Clare Carlisle, Lecturer in Philosophy of religion at King's College London,[175] |
| 20 September 2012 | The Druids | Barry Cunliffe, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford,[176] Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University,[176] Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London[176] |
| 13 September 2012 | The Cell | Steve Jones Professor of Genetics at University College London,[177] Cathie Martin, MBE,[178] Group Leader at the John Innes Centre and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia,[177] Nick Lane, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London[177] |
2011–2012
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2012 | Hadrian's Wall | Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews[179] David Breeze, Former Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland and Visiting Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham[179] Lindsay Allason-Jones, Former Reader in Roman Material Culture at the University of Newcastle[179] |
| 5 July 2012 | Scepticism | Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford,[180] Melissa Lane, Professor of Politics at Princeton University,[180] Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London.[180] |
| 28 June 2012 | Al-Kindi | Hugh Kennedy, Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London,[181] James Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic Elect at the University of Cambridge,[181] Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.[181] |
| 21 June 2012 | Annie Besant | Lawrence Goldman, Fellow in Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford,[182] David Stack, Reader in History at the University of Reading,[182] Yasmin Khan, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.[182] |
| 14 June 2012 | James Joyce's Ulysses | Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, University of London,[183] Jeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford,[183] Richard Brown, Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Leeds.[183] |
| 7 June 2012 | King Solomon | Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture,[184] Philip Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester,[184] Katharine Dell, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[184] |
| 31 May 2012 | The Trojan War | Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King's College London,[185] Ellen Adams, Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London,[185] Susan Sherratt, Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.[185] |
| 24 May 2012 | Marco Polo | Frances Wood, Lead Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library,[186] Joan Pau Rubies, Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science,[186] Debra Higgs Strickland, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow.[186] |
| 17 May 2012 | Clausewitz and On War | Saul David, Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham,[187] Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford,[187] Beatrice Heuser, Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading.[187] |
| 10 May 2012 | Game Theory | Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick,[188] Andrew Colman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester,[188] Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[188] |
| 3 May 2012 | Voltaire's Candide | David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York,[189] Nicholas Cronk, Professor of French Literature and Director of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford,[189] Caroline Warman, Lecturer in French and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.[189] |
| 26 April 2012 | Battle of Bosworth Field | Anne Curry, Professor of Medieval History and Dean of Humanities at the University of Southampton,[190] Steven Gunn, Tutor and Fellow in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford,[190] David Grummitt, Lecturer in British History at the University of Kent.[190] |
| 19 April 2012 | Neoplatonism | Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick,[191] Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London,[191] Anne Sheppard, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.[191] |
| 12 April 2012 | Early Geology | Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at Lancaster University,[192] Andrew Scott, Professor of Applied Palaeobotany at Royal Holloway, University of London,[192] Leucha Veneer, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester.[192] |
| 5 April 2012 | George Fox and the Quakers | Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London,[193] John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester,[193] Kate Peters, Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge.[193] |
| 29 March 2012 | The Measurement of Time | Kristen Lippincott, Former Director of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,[194] Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford,[194] Jonathan Betts, Senior Curator of Horology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.[194] |
| 22 March 2012 | Moses Mendelssohn | Christopher Clark, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge,[195] Abigail Green, Tutor and Fellow in History at the University of Oxford,[195] Adam Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in European History at King's College, London.[195] |
| 15 March 2012 | Vitruvius and De Architectura | Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck, University of London,[196] Robert Tavernor, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the London School of Economics,[196] Alice Koenig, Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews.[196] |
| 8 March 2012 | Lyrical Ballads | Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London,[197] Jonathan Bate, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford,[197] Peter Swaab, Reader in English Literature at University College London.[197] |
| 1 March 2012 | Benjamin Franklin | Simon Middleton, Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Sheffield,[198] Simon Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow,[198] Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor at Clare College, Cambridge.[198] |
| 23 February 2012 | Conductors and Semiconductors | Frank Close, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford,[199] Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London,[199] Lesley Cohen, Professor of Solid State Physics at Imperial College London[199] |
| 16 February 2012 | The An Lushan Rebellion | Frances Wood, Lead Curator of Chinese at the British Library,[200] Naomi Standen, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham,[200] Hilde de Weerdt, Fellow and Lecturer in Chinese History at Pembroke College, Oxford.[200] |
| 9 February 2012 | Erasmus | Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford,[201] Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge,[201] Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London[201] |
| 2 February 2012 | The Kama Sutra | Julius Lipner, Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge,[202] Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies,[202] David Smith, Reader in South Asian Religions at the University of Lancaster[202] |
| 26 January 2012 | The Scientific method | Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge,[203] John Worrall, Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science,[203] Michela Massimi, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at University College London.[203] |
| 19 January 2012 | 1848: Year of Revolution | Tim Blanning, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cambridge,[204] Lucy Riall, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London,[204] Mike Rapport, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling.[204] |
| 12 January 2012 | The Safavid Dynasty | Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter,[205] Emma Loosley, Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester,[205] Andrew Newman, Reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.[205] |
| 2–6 January 2012 | The Written Word | Documentary series
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| 29 December 2011 | Macromolecules | Tony Ryan, Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield,[206] Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College,[206] Charlotte Williams, Reader in Polymer Chemistry and Catalysis at Imperial College, London.[206] |
| 22 December 2011 | Robinson Crusoe | Karen O'Brien, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education at the University of Birmingham,[207] Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London,[207] Bob Owens, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Open University.[207] |
| 15 December 2011 | The Concordat of Worms | Henrietta Leyser, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford,[208] Kate Cushing, Reader in Medieval History at Keele University,[208] John Gillingham, Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[208] |
| 8 December 2011 | Heraclitus | Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick,[209] Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London,[209] James Warren, Senior Lecturer in Classics and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge[209] |
| 1 December 2011 | Christina Rossetti | Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at Liverpool University,[210] Rhian Williams, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Glasgow,[210] Nicholas Shrimpton, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[210] |
| 24 November 2011 | Judas Maccabeus | Helen Bond, Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at University of Edinburgh,[211] Tessa Rajak, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading,[211] Philip Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester.[211] |
| 17 November 2011 | Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy | Liba Taub, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University,[212] Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford,[212] Charles Burnett, Professor of the History of Islamic Influences on Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London[212] |
| 10 November 2011 | The Continental-Analytic Split | Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy at New College, Oxford,[213] Beatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex,[213] Hans Johann-Glock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich.[213] |
| 3 November 2011 | The Moon | Paul Murdin, Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Liverpool John Moores University,[214] Carolin Crawford, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College and Fellow and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge,[214] Ian Crawford, Reader in Planetary Science and Astrobiology at Birkbeck College, London.[214] |
| 27 October 2011 | The Siege of Tenochtitlan | Alan Knight, Professor of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford,[215] Elizabeth Graham, Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College, London,[215] Caroline Dodds Pennock, Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield.[215] |
| 20 October 2011 | Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People | Tim Blanning, Former Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge,[216] Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at University College London,[216] Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer on the history of art at Reading University.[216] |
| 13 October 2011 | The Ming Voyages | Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford,[217] Julia Lovell, Lecturer in Chinese History at Birkbeck College, University of London,[217] Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford.[217] |
| 6 October 2011 | David Hume | Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford,[218] Helen Beebee, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham,[218] James Harris, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.[218] |
| 29 September 2011 | The Etruscan Civilisation | Phil Perkins, Professor of Archaeology at the Open University,[219] David Ridgway, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London,[219] Corinna Riva, Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London.[219] |
| 22 September 2011 | Shinto | Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture,[220] Richard Bowring, Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge,[220] Lucia Dolce, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion and Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.[220] |
| 15 September 2011 | The Hippocratic Oath | Vivian Nutton, Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London,[221] Helen King, Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University,[221] Peter Pormann, Wellcome Trust Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick[221] |
2010–2011
2009–2010
2008–2009
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2009 | Ediacara Biota – the first animal? | Richard Corfield, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Open University, Martin Brasier, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Oxford, Rachel Wood, Lecturer in Carbonate Geoscience at the University of Edinburgh |
| 2 July 2009 | Logical Positivism – or is it? | Barry Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Thomas Uebel |
| 25 June 2009 | The Sunni-Shia Split: after Muhammad | Amira Bennison, Robert Gleave, Hugh N. Kennedy |
| 18 June 2009 | Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy – theatre of blood | Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare |
| 11 June 2009 | The Augustan Age – art and propaganda at the birth of the Roman Empire | Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, Duncan Kennedy |
| 4 June 2009 | The Trial of Charles I – the original courtroom drama | Justin Champion, Diane Purkiss, David Wootton |
| 28 May 2009 | Saint Paul – the first Christian | John Haldane, John Barclay, Helen Bond |
| 21 May 2009 | The Whale: A History | Steve Jones, Eleanor Weston, Bill Amos |
| 14 May 2009 | The Siege of Vienna – a clash of civilisations? | Jeremy Black, Andrew Wheatcroft, Claire Norton |
| 7 May 2009 | Magna Carta – foundation of law or rich man's charter? | Nicholas Vincent, David Carpenter, Michael Clanchy |
| 30 April 2009 | The Vacuum of Space – a programme about nothing? | Frank Close, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Ruth Gregory |
| 23 April 2009 | The Building of St Petersburg – "a window through which Russia looks on Europe" | Simon Dixon, Janet Hartley, Anthony Cross |
| 16 April 2009 | Suffragism – the long march towards votes for women | Krista Cowman, June Purvis, Julia Bush |
| 9 April 2009 | Brave New World – would Soma, free love and the feelies be so bad? | David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick, Michèle Barrett |
| 2 April 2009 | Baconian Science – Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science | Stephen Pumfrey, Patricia Fara, Rhodri Lewis |
| 26 March 2009 | The School of Athens – picturing Greece in Renaissance minds | Angie Hobbs, Valery Rees, Jill Kraye |
| 19 March 2009 | The Boxer Rebellion – "Kill all Foreigners!" | Frances Wood, Rana Mitter, Gary Tiedemann |
| 12 March 2009 | The Library of Alexandria – of all the books in all the world... | Simon Goldhill, Matthew Nicholls, Serafina Cuomo |
| 5 March 2009 | The Measurement Problem in Physics – Man is not the measure of all things | Basil Hiley, Simon Saunders, Sir Roger Penrose |
| 26 February 2009 | The Waste Land and Modernity – "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" | Steve Connor, Fran Brearton, Lawrence Rainey |
| 19 February 2009 | The Observatory at Jaipur – Indian astronomy on the cusp of colonialism | Chandrika Kaul, David Arnold, Chris Minkowski |
| 12 February 2009 | The Destruction of Carthage – "Delenda Carthago!" | Mary Beard, Jo Quinn, Ellen O’Gorman |
| 5 February 2009 | The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm – but not as we know them | Juliette Wood, Marina Warner, Tony Phelan |
| 29 January 2009 | A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift – 18th century satire gets close to the bone | John Mullan, Judith Hawley, Ian McBride |
| 22 January 2009 | A History of History – how the writing of history has evolved | Paul Cartledge, John Burrow, Miri Rubin |
| 15 January 2009 | Thoreau and the American Idyll – America in the Wilderness | Kathleen Burk, Tim Morris, Stephen Fender |
| 5–8 January 2009 | Darwin | Series of daily documentaries
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| 1 January 2009 | The Consolation of Philosophy – a new year's message from Boethius | A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane, Roger Scruton |
| 18 December 2008 | The Physics of Time – does time even exist? | Jim Al-Khalili, Monica Grady, Ian Stewart |
| 11 December 2008 | The Great Fire of London – London's burning, fetch the engines... | Lisa Jardine, Vanessa Harding, Jonathan Sawday |
| 4 December 2008 | Heat: A History -from fire to thermodynamics | Simon Schaffer, Hasok Chang, Joanna Haigh |
| 27 November 2008 | The Great Reform Act: reform – but was it great? | Dinah Birch, Michael Bentley, Catherine Hall |
| 20 November 2008 | The Baroque – - the misshapen pearl of Europe | T. C. W. Blanning, Nigel Aston, Helen Hills |
| 13 November 2008 | Neuroscience – does the brain rule the mind? | Martin Conway, Gemma Calvert, David Papineau |
| 6 November 2008 | Aristotle's Politics – a perfect society? | Angie Hobbs, Paul Cartledge, Annabel Brett |
| 30 October 2008 | Simon Bolivar – the liberator of Spanish America | Anthony McFarlane, John Fisher, Catherine Davies |
| 23 October 2008 | Dante's Inferno – to Hell and back | Margaret Kean, John Took, Claire Honess |
| 16 October 2008 | Vitalism – the spark of life | Patricia Fara, Andrew Mendelsohn, Pietro Corsi |
| 9 October 2008 | Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems – the dirty secret of maths | Marcus du Sautoy, John D. Barrow, Philip Welch |
| 2 October 2008 | The Translation Movement – movement in Baghdad which translated Aristotle and Greek classics into Arabic | Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison, Peter Pormann |
| 25 September 2008 | Miracles – will they never cease? | Martin Palmer, Janet Soskice, Justin Champion |
2007–2008
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2008 | Tacitus – The Decadence of Rome | Catharine Edwards, Ellen O’Gorman, Maria Wyke |
| 3 July 2008 | The Metaphysical Poets – sex and death in the 17th century | Thomas Healy, Julie Sanders, Tom Cain |
| 26 June 2008 | The Arab Conquests – the 7th century new world order | Hugh N. Kennedy, Amira Bennison, Robert Hoyland |
| 19 June 2008 | The Music of the Spheres – a dose of heavenly harmonies | Peter Forshaw, Jim Bennett, Angela Voss |
| 12 June 2008 | The Riddle of the Sands – how Britain learned to fear the Germans | Richard J. Evans, Rosemary Ashton, T. C. W. Blanning |
| 5 June 2008 | Trofim Lysenko – Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist | Robert Service, Steve Jones, Catherine Merridale |
| 29 May 2008 | Probability – heads or tails? | Marcus du Sautoy, Colva Roney-Dougal, Ian Stewart |
| 22 May 2008 | The Black Death – a plague on all our houses | Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski |
| 15 May 2008 | The Library at Nineveh – | Eleanor Robson, Karen Radner, Andrew R. George |
| 8 May 2008 | The Brain: A History – history of ideas about the human brain | Vivian Nutton, Jonathan Sawday, Marina Wallace |
| 1 May 2008 | The Enclosures – dividing the country | Rosemary Sweet, Murray Pittock, Mark Overton |
| 24 April 2008 | Materialism – are we living in a material world? | A. C. Grayling, Caroline Warman, Anthony O'Hear |
| 17 April 2008 | Yeats and Irish Politics – "a terrible beauty is born" | Roy Foster, Fran Brearton, Warwick Gould |
| 10 April 2008 | The Norman Yoke – 1067 and all that | Sarah Foot, Richard Gameson, Matthew Strickland |
| 3 April 2008 | Newton's Laws of Motion – they put a man on the Moon | Simon Schaffer, Raymond Flood, Rob Iliffe |
| 27 March 2008 | The Dissolution of the Monasteries – religion in ruins | Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard |
| 20 March 2008 | Søren Kierkegaard – fear and trembling in Copenhagen | Jonathan Rée, Clare Carlisle, John Lippitt |
| 13 March 2008 | The Greek Myths – soap opera of the gods | Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton, Mary Beard |
| 6 March 2008 | Ada Lovelace – prophet of the computer age | Patricia Fara, Doron Swade, John Fuegi |
| 28 February 2008 | King Lear – Shakespeare's finest fairy tale | Jonathan Bate, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Catherine Belsey |
| 21 February 2008 | The Multiverse – the universe is not enough | Sir Martin Rees, Fay Dowker, Bernard Carr |
| 14 February 2008 | The Statue of Liberty – From France with love... | Robert Gildea, Kathleen Burk, John Keane |
| 7 February 2008 | The Social Contract – Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the Origins of Society | Melissa Lane, Susan James, Karen O’Brien |
| 31 January 2008 | The Court of Rudolf II – the lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas | Peter Forshaw, Howard Hotson, Adam Mosley |
| 24 January 2008 | Plate Tectonics – the day the Earth moved | Richard Corfield, Joe Cann, Lynne Frostick |
| 17 January 2008 | The Fisher King – the wound that does not heal | Carolyne Larrington, Stephen Knight, Juliette Wood |
| 10 January 2008 | The Charge of the Light Brigade – "All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred" | Mike Broers, Trudi Tate, Saul David |
| 3 January 2008 | Albert Camus – Rebel with a Cause | Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker, Christina Howells |
| 27 December 2007 | The Nicene Creed – when Christ became God | Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, Andrew Louth |
| 20 December 2007 | The Four Humours – yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm in the original theory of everything | David Wootton, Vivian Nutton, Noga Arikha |
| 13 December 2007 | The Sassanian Empire – - in the shadow of Ancient Persia | Hugh N. Kennedy, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, James Howard-Johnston |
| 6 December 2007 | Genetic Mutation – the error-strewn secrets of life | Steve Jones, Adrian Woolfson, Linda Partridge |
| 29 November 2007 | The Fibonacci Sequence – - the numbers in nature | Marcus du Sautoy, Jackie Stedall, , Ron Knott |
| 22 November 2007 | The Prelude – the greatest poem in the English language? | Rosemary Ashton, Stephen Gill, Emma Mason |
| 15 November 2007 | The Discovery of Oxygen – feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry | Simon Schaffer, Jenny Uglow, Hasok Chang |
| 8 November 2007 | Avicenna – wine, women and philosophy | Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison, Nader El-Bizri |
| 1 November 2007 | Guilt – what is it good for? | Stephen Mulhall, Miranda Fricker, Oliver Davies |
| 25 October 2007 | Taste – the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century | Amanda Vickery, John Mullan, Jeremy Black |
| 18 October 2007 | The Arabian Nights – The art of story-telling | Robert Graham Irwin, Marina Warner, Gerard van Gelder |
| 11 October 2007 | Divine Right of Kings – "there's such divinity doth hedge a king" | Justin Champion, Thomas Healy, Clare Jackson |
| 4 October 2007 | Antimatter – where has it all gone? | Val Gibson, Frank Close, Ruth Gregory |
| 27 September 2007 | Socrates – the man and the myth | Angie Hobbs, David Sedley, Paul Millett |
2006–2007
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2007 | Madame Bovary – the literary sensation caused by Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary | Andy Martin,[244] Mary Orr,[245] Robert Gildea |
| 5 July 2007 | The Pilgrim Fathers – the original American dream | Kathleen Burk,[246] Harry Bennett,[247] Tim Lockley[248] |
| 28 June 2007 | Permian-Triassic Boundary – when 95% of life was killed off | Richard Corfield,[249] Mike Benton,[250] Jane Francis |
| 21 June 2007 | Common Sense Philosophy – "there is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it" | A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane,[251] Alexander Broadie[252] |
| 14 June 2007 | Renaissance Astrology – "we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them" | Peter Forshaw,[253] Lauren Kassell,[254] Jonathan Sawday[255] |
| 7 June 2007 | Siegfried Sassoon – the poet who survived | Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton,[256] Max Egremont |
| 31 May 2007 | Occam's Razor – cutting medieval philosophy down to size | Sir Anthony Kenny, Marilyn McCord Adams, Richard Alan Cross |
| 24 May 2007 | The Siege of Orleans – did Joan of Arc really rescue France? | Anne Curry,[257] Malcolm Vale,[258] Matthew Bennett[259] |
| 17 May 2007 | Gravitational Waves – a new window on the universe | Jim Al-Khalili, Carolin Crawford,[260] Sheila Rowan[261] |
| 10 May 2007 | Victorian Pessimism – fear and loathing in the late 19th century | Dinah Birch,[262] Rosemary Ashton,[263] Peter Mandler |
| 3 May 2007 | Spinoza – believed that God and Nature were the same thing | Jonathan Rée, Sarah Hutton,[264] John Cottingham[265] |
| 26 April 2007 | Greek and Roman Love Poetry – the pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus | Nick Lowe,[266] Edith Hall, Maria Wyke[267] |
| 19 April 2007 | Symmetry – the pattern at the heart of our physical world | Fay Dowker, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart |
| 12 April 2007 | The Opium Wars – a conflict that was to affect British-Chinese relations for generations | Yangwen Zheng,[268] Lars Laamann,[269] Xun Zhou[270] |
| 5 April 2007 | St Hilda – the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby | John Blair,[271] Rosemary Cramp,[272] Sarah Foot |
| 29 March 2007 | Anaesthetics – from ether frolics to pain free surgery | David Wilkinson,[273] Stephanie Snow,[274] Anne Hardy[275] |
| 22 March 2007 | Bismarck – The Iron Chancellor | Richard J. Evans, Christopher Clark, Katharine Lerman[276] |
| 15 March 2007 | Epistolary Literature – great novels of fictional letters | John Mullan, Karen O'Brien,[277] Brean Hammond[278] |
| 8 March 2007 | Microbiology – the story of the invisible masters of the universe | John Dupré, Anne Glover,[279] Andrew Mendelsohn[280] |
| 1 March 2007 | The History of Optics – from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world | Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett, Emily Winterburn[281] |
| 22 February 2007 | William Wilberforce – the man and his legacy | This broadcast was a documentary rather than a discussion |
| 15 February 2007 | Heart of Darkness – one of the most influential novels of the 20th century | Susan Jones,[282] Robert Hampson,[283] Laurence Davies[284] |
| 8 February 2007 | Karl Popper – his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science | John Worrall, Anthony O'Hear, Nancy Cartwright |
| 1 February 2007 | Genghis Khan – founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires | Peter Jackson, Naomi Standen,[285] George Lane[286] |
| 25 January 2007 | Archimedes – the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments | Jackie Stedall,[287] Serafina Cuomo,[288] George Phillips[289] |
| 18 January 2007 | The Jesuits – the school masters of Europe | Nigel Aston,[290] Simon Ditchfield,[291] Dame Olwen Hufton |
| 11 January 2007 | Mars – the search for life on the Red Planet | John Zarnecki, Colin Pillinger, Monica Grady |
| 4 January 2007 | Borges – the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer | Edwin Williamson,[292] Efraín Kristal,[293] Evelyn Fishburn[294] |
| 28 December 2006 | The Siege of Constantinople – the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire | Roger Crowley,[295] Judith Herrin, Colin Imber[296] |
| 21 December 2006 | Hell – its representation through the ages | Martin Palmer, Margaret Kean,[297] Neil MacGregor |
| 14 December 2006 | Indian Maths – laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number | George Gheverghese Joseph,[298] Colva Roney-Dougal,[299] Dennis Almeida[300] |
| 7 December 2006 | Anarchism – a question of authority? | John Keane, Ruth Kinna, Peter Marshall |
| 30 November 2006 | The Speed of Light – a cosmic speed limit? | John D. Barrow, Iwan Morus,[301] Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
| 23 November 2006 | Altruism – how can evolutionary biology explain it? | Miranda Fricker, Richard Dawkins, John Dupré |
| 16 November 2006 | The Peasants' Revolt – a lasting legacy for popular uprising? | Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron,[302] Alastair Dunn[303] |
| 9 November 2006 | Alexander Pope – "short is my date, but deathless my renown" | John Mullan, Jim McLaverty,[304] Valerie Rumbold[305] |
| 2 November 2006 | The Poincaré conjecture – how a 19th-century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe | June Barrow-Green,[306] Ian Stewart, Marcus du Sautoy |
| 26 October 2006 | The Encyclopédie – the great project of the Enlightenment | Judith Hawley,[307] Caroline Warman,[308] David Wootton[309] |
| 19 October 2006 | The Needham Question – did China lay the foundations of modern science? | Chris Cullen,[310] Tim Barrett,[311] Frances Wood[312] |
| 12 October 2006 | The Diet of Worms – Luther's stand against the Church | Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi,[313] Charlotte Methuen[314] |
| 5 October 2006 | Averroes – the battle between faith and reason | Amira Bennison,[315] Peter Adamson,[316] Sir Anthony Kenny |
| 28 September 2006 | Alexander von Humboldt – the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist | Jason Wilson,[317] Patricia Fara,[318] Jim Secord[319] |
2005–2006
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2006 | Greek Comedy – sing as you revel and rout | Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, Nick Lowe[266] |
| 6 July 2006 | Pastoral Literature – the romantic idealisation of the countryside | Helen Cooper, Laurence Lerner, Julie Sanders[320] |
| 29 June 2006 | Galaxies – extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter | John Gribbin, Carolin Crawford,[260] Robert Kennicutt |
| 22 June 2006 | The Spanish Inquisition – one of the most barbaric episodes in European history | John Edwards,[321] Alexander Murray,[322] Michael Alpert[323] |
| 15 June 2006 | Carbon – the basis of life | Harry Kroto, Monica Grady, Ken Teo[324] |
| 8 June 2006 | Uncle Tom's Cabin – the novel that started the American Civil War | Celeste-Marie Bernier,[325] Sarah Meer,[326] Clive Webb[327] |
| 1 June 2006 | The Heart – its anatomical and cultural history | David Wootton,[309] Fay Bound Alberti,[328] Jonathan Sawday[255] |
| 25 May 2006 | Mathematics and Music – the science behind sound and composition | Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Ruth Tatlow[329] |
| 18 May 2006 | John Stuart Mill – one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century | A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Alan Ryan |
| 11 May 2006 | Faeries – supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans | Juliette Wood,[330] Diane Purkiss, Nicola Bown[331] |
| 4 May 2006 | Astronomy and Empire – the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery | Simon Schaffer, Kristen Lippincott,[332] Allan Chapman |
| 27 April 2006 | The Great Exhibition – a wonder of the Victorian world | Jeremy Black, Hermione Hobhouse,[333] Clive Emsley |
| 20 April 2006 | The Search for Immunisation – and the battle against smallpox | Nadja Durbach,[334] Chris Dye,[335] Sanjoy Bhattacharya[336] |
| 13 April 2006 | The Oxford Movement – Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century | Sheridan Gilley,[337] Frances Knight,[338] Simon Skinner[339] |
| 6 April 2006 | Goethe – formation of a German cultural icon | T. C. W. Blanning, Sarah Colvin,[340] W. Daniel Wilson[341] |
| 30 March 2006 | The Carolingian Renaissance – the revival of early medieval Western Europe | Matthew Innes,[342] Julia Smith,[343] Mary Garrison[344] |
| 23 March 2006 | The Royal Society – the first club for experimental science | Stephen Pumfrey,[345] Lisa Jardine, Michael Hunter |
| 16 March 2006 | Don Quixote – Spanish romance and the first novel | Barry Ife,[346] Edwin Williamson,[292] Jane Whetnall[347] |
| 9 March 2006 | Negative numbers – how they spread across civilizations | Ian Stewart, Colva Roney-Dougal,[299] Raymond Flood[348] |
| 2 March 2006 | Friendship – thinking philosophically about our close companions | Angie Hobbs, Mark Vernon,[349] John Mullan |
| 23 February 2006 | Catherine the Great – the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia | Janet Hartley,[350] Simon Dixon,[351] Tony Lentin[352] |
| 16 February 2006 | Human Evolution – from early hominids to Homo sapiens | Steve Jones, Fred Spoor,[353] Margaret Clegg[354] |
| 9 February 2006 | Geoffrey Chaucer – the first Great English Poet | Carolyne Larrington,[355] Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield[356] |
| 2 February 2006 | The Abbasid Caliphs – when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world. | Hugh N. Kennedy, Robert Graham Irwin, Amira Bennison[315] |
| 26 January 2006 | Seventeenth Century Print Culture – piety, populism and political protest | Kevin Sharpe,[357] Ann Hughes,[358] Joad Raymond[359] |
| 19 January 2006 | Relativism – the battle against transcendent knowledge | Barry Smith,[360] Jonathan Rée, Kathleen Lennon[361] |
| 12 January 2006 | Prime Numbers – the building blocks of mathematics | Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Jackie Stedall[287] |
| 5 January 2006 | The Oath – guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world | Alan Sommerstein,[362] Paul Cartledge, Mary Beard |
| 29 December 2005 | Aeschylus' Oresteia – the birth of tragedy | Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill, Thomas Healy[363] |
| 22 December 2005 | Heaven – a journey through the afterlife | Valery Rees,[364] Martin Palmer, John Carey |
| 15 December 2005 | The Peterloo Massacre – democratic protest and brutal repression | Jeremy Black, Sarah Richardson,[365] Clive Emsley |
| 8 December 2005 | Artificial Intelligence – the quest for a machine that can think | Jon Agar,[366] Alison Adam,[367] Igor Aleksander |
| 1 December 2005 | Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of Leviathan | Quentin Skinner, David Wootton,[309] Annabel Brett[368] |
| 24 November 2005 | The Graviton – the quest for the theoretical gravity particle | Roger Cashmore, Jim Al-Khalili, Sheila Rowan[261] |
| 17 November 2005 | Pragmatism – a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America | A. C. Grayling, Julian Baggini, Miranda Fricker |
| 10 November 2005 | Greyfriars and Blackfriars – philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church | Henrietta Leyser, Alexander Murray,[322] Sir Anthony Kenny |
| 3 November 2005 | Asteroids – celestial bodies from the beginning of time | Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford,[260] John Zarnecki |
| 27 October 2005 | Samuel Johnson and His Circle – life with the professional man of letters | John Mullan, Jim McLaverty,[304] Judith Hawley[307] |
| 20 October 2005 | Cynicism – bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy | Angie Hobbs, Miriam Griffin,[369] John Moles[370] |
| 13 October 2005 | The Rise of the Mammals – life in a cold climate | Richard Corfield,[249] Steve Jones, Jane Francis |
| 6 October 2005 | Field of the Cloth of Gold – a Renaissance entente cordiale | Steven Gunn,[371] John Guy, Penny Roberts[372] |
| 29 September 2005 | Magnetism – an attractive history | Stephen Pumfrey,[345] John Heilbron, Lisa Jardine |
2004–2005
In 2005 listeners were invited to vote in a poll for the greatest philosopher in history. The winner was the subject of the final programme before the summer break. The vote was won by Karl Marx with 27.9% of the votes. Other shortlisted figures were David Hume (12.7%), Ludwig Wittgenstein (6.8%), Friedrich Nietzsche (6.5%), Plato (5.6%), Immanuel Kant (5.6%), Thomas Aquinas (4.8%), Socrates (4.8%), Aristotle (4.5%) and Karl Popper (4.2%).[373]
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2005 | Karl Marx – In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher | A. C. Grayling, Francis Wheen, Gareth Stedman Jones |
| 7 July 2005 | Christopher Marlowe – poet, spy, atheist, murder victim? | Katherine Duncan-Jones,[374] Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith[375] |
| 30 June 2005 | Merlin – the original Welsh wizard | Juliette Wood,[330] Stephen Knight, Peter Forshaw[253] |
| 23 June 2005 | The K–T boundary – did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away? | Simon Kelley,[376] Jane Francis, Mike Benton[250] |
| 16 June 2005 | Paganism in the Renaissance – how the classical gods returned to the Christian cities | Thomas Healy,[363] Charles Hope,[377] Evelyn Welch[378] |
| 9 June 2005 | The Scriblerus Club – the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century | John Mullan, Judith Hawley,[307] Marcus Walsh[379] |
| 2 June 2005 | Renaissance Maths – the birth of modern mathematics? | Robert Kaplan,[380] Jim Bennett, Jackie Stedall[287] |
| 26 May 2005 | The Terror – when Madame Guillotine ruled France | Mike Broers,[381] Rebecca Spang,[382] T. C. W. Blanning |
| 19 May 2005 | Beauty – the philosophy of beauty | Angie Hobbs, Susan James,[383] Julian Baggini |
| 5 May 2005 | Abelard and Heloise – love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris | A. C. Grayling, Henrietta Leyser, Michael Clanchy[384] |
| 28 April 2005 | Perception and the Senses – how do we see what we see? | Richard Gregory, David Moore,[385] Gemma Calvert[386] |
| 21 April 2005 | The Aeneid – the Roman history of the world | Edith Hall, Philip Hardie,[387] Catharine Edwards[388] |
| 14 April 2005 | Archaeology and Imperialism – conquest of the past | Tim Champion,[389] Richard Parkinson,[390] Eleanor Robson |
| 7 April 2005 | Alfred and the Battle of Edington – without Alfred, no England? | Richard Gameson,[391] Sarah Foot, John Hines[392] |
| 31 March 2005 | John Ruskin – a different kind of Victorian | Dinah Birch,[262] Keith Hanley,[393] Stefan Collini[394] |
| 24 March 2005 | Angels – how they got their wings | Martin Palmer, Valery Rees,[364] John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. |
| 17 March 2005 | Dark Energy – the unknown force breaking the universe apart | Sir Martin Rees, Carolin Crawford,[260] Sir Roger Penrose |
| 10 March 2005 | Modernist Utopias – the original 21st century | John Carey, Steve Connor,[395] Laura Marcus[396] |
| 3 March 2005 | Stoicism – the search for inner calm | Angie Hobbs, Jonathan Rée, David Sedley[397] |
| 24 February 2005 | Alchemy – seeking the perfection of all things | Peter Forshaw,[253] Lauren Kassell,[254] Stephen Pumfrey[345] |
| 17 February 2005 | The Cambrian Explosion – the big bang of evolutionary history | Simon Conway Morris, Richard Corfield,[249] Jane Francis |
| 13 January 2005 | The Mind/Body Problem – does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind? | A. C. Grayling, Julian Baggini, Susan James[398] |
| 6 January 2005 | The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II – did his killing cause the Russian Revolution? | Orlando Figes, Dominic Lieven,[399] Catriona Kelly[400] |
| 30 December 2004 | The Roman Republic – what were Rome's republican ideals? | Greg Woolf,[401] Catherine Steel,[402] Tom Holland |
| 23 December 2004 | Faust – the original pact with the Devil | Juliette Wood,[330] Osman Durrani,[403] Rosemary Ashton[263] |
| 16 December 2004 | The Second Law of Thermodynamics – the most important thing you will ever know | John Gribbin, Peter Atkins, Monica Grady |
| 9 December 2004 | Machiavelli and the Italian City States – high politics and low cunning in the Italian Renaissance | Quentin Skinner, Evelyn Welch,[378] Lisa Jardine |
| 2 December 2004 | Carl Gustav Jung – Discovering the Self | Brett Kahr,[404] Ronald Hayman, Andrew Samuels |
| 25 November 2004 | The Venerable Bede – the father of English history | Richard Gameson,[391] Sarah Foot, Michelle Brown[405] |
| 18 November 2004 | Higgs Boson – the search for the God particle | Jim Al-Khalili, David Wark,[406] Roger Cashmore |
| 11 November 2004 | Zoroastrianism – was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism? | Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis,[407] Farrokh Vajifdar,[408] Alan Williams[409] |
| 4 November 2004 | Electrickery – the origins of electricity | Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara,[318] Iwan Morus[301] |
| 28 October 2004 | Rhetoric – from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues | Angie Hobbs, Thomas Healy,[363] Ceri Sullivan[410] |
| 21 October 2004 | Witchcraft – Reformation Europe turned upon itself | Alison Rowlands,[411] Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill[412] |
| 14 October 2004 | The Han Synthesis – creating the Chinese cosmos | Chris Cullen,[310] Carol Michaelson,[413] Roel Sterckx |
| 7 October 2004 | Jean-Paul Sartre – a man condemned to be free | Jonathan Rée, Benedict O'Donohoe,[414] Christina Howells[415] |
| 30 September 2004 | Politeness – the great 18th century craze | Amanda Vickery,[416] David Wootton,[309] John Mullan |
| 23 September 2004 | The Origins of Life – how it all began | Richard Dawkins, Richard Corfield,[249] Linda Partridge[417] |
| 16 September 2004 | Agincourt – the real facts behind the battle. | Anne Curry,[257] Michael Jones, John Watts[418] |
| 9 September 2004 | The Odyssey – Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home | Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin |
| 2 September 2004 | Pi – the number that doesn't add up | Robert Kaplan,[380] Eleanor Robson, Ian Stewart |
2003–2004
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2004 | George Washington and the American Revolution – the most significant event in history | Carol Berkin,[419] Simon Middleton,[420] Colin Bonwick[421] |
| 17 June 2004 | Renaissance Magic – the great passion of the age | Peter Forshaw,[253] Valery Rees,[364] Jonathan Sawday[255] |
| 10 June 2004 | Empiricism – the English philosophy? | Judith Hawley,[307] Murray Pittock,[422] Jonathan Rée |
| 3 June 2004 | Babylon – the great forgotten civilisation | Eleanor Robson, Irving Finkel,[423] Andrew R. George |
| 27 May 2004 | Planets – the astronomy of the 21st century | Paul Murdin,[424] Hugh R. A. Jones,[425] Carolin Crawford[260] |
| 20 May 2004 | Toleration – from medieval intolerance to religious freedom | Justin Champion, David Wootton,[309] Sarah Barber[426] |
| 13 May 2004 | Zero – everything about nothing | Robert Kaplan,[380] Ian Stewart, Lisa Jardine |
| 6 May 2004 | Heroism – do we live in an heroic age? | Angie Hobbs, A. C. Grayling, Paul Cartledge |
| 29 April 2004 | Tea – an empire in a teacup | Huw Bowen,[427] James Walvin,[428] Amanda Vickery[416] |
| 22 April 2004 | Hysteria – the normal state of human beings? | Juliet Mitchell, Rachel Bowlby,[429] Brett Kahr[404] |
| 15 April 2004 | The Later Romantics – the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley | Jonathan Bate, Robert Woof, Jennifer Wallace[430] |
| 8 April 2004 | The Fall – how Adam and Eve affect us all | Martin Palmer, Griselda Pollock, John Carey |
| 1 April 2004 | China: The Warring States period – the fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation | Chris Cullen,[310] Vivienne Lo,[431] Carol Michaelson[413] |
| 25 March 2004 | Theories of Everything – still the holy grail of physics? | Brian Greene, John D. Barrow, Val Gibson[432] |
| 18 March 2004 | The Roman Empire's Decline and Fall – was Edward Gibbon right about the reasons? ( Repeat of episode 5 April 2001 ) | Charlotte Roueché, David Womersley, Richard Alston |
| 11 March 2004 | The Norse Gods – the great myths of pagan Europe | Carolyne Larrington,[355] Heather O'Donoghue,[433] John Hines[392] |
| 4 March 2004 | Dreams – is there a science of dreams? | Vilayanur S. Ramachandran,[434] Mark Solms,[435] Martin Conway[436] |
| 26 February 2004 | The Mughal Empire – the glory of India | Sanjay Subrahmanyam,[437] Susan Stronge,[438] Chandrika Kaul[439] |
| 19 February 2004 | Rutherford – the father of nuclear physics | Simon Schaffer, Jim Al-Khalili, Patricia Fara[318] |
| 12 February 2004 | The Sublime – defining the state of awe | Janet Todd, Anne Janowitz,[440] Peter de Bolla[441] |
| 5 February 2004 | The Battle of Thermopylae – battle that defined East and West | Tom Holland, Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall |
| 29 January 2004 | Cryptography – secret history of ciphers and codes | Simon Singh, Fred Piper,[442] Lisa Jardine |
| 26 December 2003 | Lamarck and Natural Selection – the Lamarckian Heresy | Sandy Knapp,[443] Steve Jones, Simon Conway Morris |
| 18 December 2003 | The Alphabet – its creation and development | Eleanor Robson, Alan Millard, Rosalind Thomas[444] |
| 11 December 2003 | The Devil – a brief biography | Martin Palmer, Alison Rowlands,[411] David Wootton[309] |
| 4 December 2003 | Wittgenstein – a philosophy of linguistics | Ray Monk, Barry Smith,[360] Marie McGinn[445] |
| 27 November 2003 | St Bartholomew's Day Massacre – slaughter in Paris. | Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass,[446] Penny Roberts[372] |
| 20 November 2003 | Ageing the Earth – a journey in geological time. | Richard Corfield,[249] Hazel Rymer,[447] Henry Gee |
| 13 November 2003 | Duty – concepts of obligation. | Angie Hobbs, Annabel Brett,[368] A. C. Grayling |
| 6 November 2003 | Sensation – the best sellers of the 19th century. | John Mullan, Lyn Pykett,[448] Dinah Birch[262] |
| 30 October 2003 | Robin Hood – the greatest of English myths. | Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn,[449] Juliette Wood[330] |
| 23 October 2003 | Infinity – a brief history. | Ian Stewart, Robert Kaplan,[380] Sarah Rees[450] |
| 16 October 2003 | The Schism – between East and West in Christianity. | Henrietta Leyser, Norman Housley, Jonathan Shepard |
| 9 October 2003 | Bohemianism – a life of art, freedom and poverty | Hermione Lee, Virginia Nicholson,[451] Graham Robb |
| 2 October 2003 | James Clerk Maxwell – great 19th century physicist | Simon Schaffer, Peter Harman,[452] Joanna Haigh[453] |
2002–2003
| Broadcast date Listen again | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2003 | The Apocalypse – was it a revelation? | Martin Palmer, Marina Benjamin,[454] Justin Champion |
| 10 July 2003 | Nature – from Homer to Darwin | Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards[455] |
| 3 July 2003 | Vulcanology – significance of volcanoes. | Hilary Downes,[456] Steve Self,[457] Bill McGuire |
| 26 June 2003 | The East India Company – a corporate route to Empire. | Huw Bowen,[427] Linda Colley, Maria Misra |
| 19 June 2003 | The Aristocracy – how the ruling class survives | David Cannadine, Rosemary Sweet,[458] Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
| 12 June 2003 | The Art of War – maintaining the objective? | Sir Michael Howard, Angie Hobbs, Jeremy Black |
| 5 June 2003 | The Lunar Society – scientific ferment 200 years ago. | Simon Schaffer, Jenny Uglow, Peter Jones[459] |
| 29 May 2003 | Memory – and the brain | Martin Conway,[436] Mike Kopelman,[460] Kim Graham[461] |
| 22 May 2003 | Blood – its religious, medical and moral significance | Miri Rubin, Anne Hardy,[275] Jonathan Sawday[255] |
| 15 May 2003 | The Holy Grail – just a medieval myth? | Carolyne Larrington,[355] Jonathan Riley-Smith, Juliette Wood[330] |
| 8 May 2003 | The Jacobite Rebellion – could it have succeeded? | Murray Pittock,[422] Stana Nenadic,[462] Allan Macinnes[463] |
| 1 May 2003 | Roman Britain – the effects of 400 years of occupation | Greg Woolf,[401] Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards[388] |
| 24 April 2003 | Youth – from Adonis to James Dean | Tim Whitmarsh,[464] Thomas Healy,[363] Deborah Thom[465] |
| 17 April 2003 | Proust – his life and work | Jacqueline Rose, Malcolm Bowie, Robert Fraser[466] |
| 3 April 2003 | The Spanish Civil War – causes and legacy | Paul Preston, Helen Graham,[467] Mary Vincent[468] |
| 27 March 2003 | Supernovas – the life cycle of stars | Paul Murdin,[424] Janna Levin, Phil Charles[469] |
| 20 March 2003 | Originality – is it just a romantic notion? | John Deathridge, Jonathan Rée, Catherine Belsey[470] |
| 13 March 2003 | Redemption – the concept of salvation | Richard Harries, Janet Soskice,[471] Stephen Mulhall |
| 6 March 2003 | Meteorology – why does it still fascinate us? | Vladimir Jankovic,[472] Richard Hamblyn,[473] Liba Taub[474] |
| 27 February 2003 | The Aztecs – looking behind the myths | Alan Knight, Adrian Locke,[475] Elizabeth Graham[476] |
| 20 February 2003 | The Lindisfarne Gospels – unifying Christianity in Britain | Michelle Brown,[405] Richard Gameson,[391] Clare Lees[477] |
| 13 February 2003 | Chance and Design in Evolution – Design in Nature | Simon Conway Morris, Sandy Knapp,[443] John Hedley Brooke |
| 6 February 2003 | The Epic – from Homer to Joyce | John Carey, Karen Edwards,[455] Oliver Taplin |
| 19 December 2002 | The Calendar – a history of the Calendar | Robert Poole,[478] Kristen Lippincott,[332] Peter Watson |
| 12 December 2002 | Disease – the fight against diseases and plagues | Anne Hardy,[275] David Bradley,[479] Chris Dye[335] |
| 5 December 2002 | The Scottish Enlightenment – how enlightened? | Tom Devine, Karen O'Brien,[480] Alexander Broadie[252] |
| 28 November 2002 | Imagination – just what is it? | Susan Stuart,[481] Steven Mithen, Semir Zeki |
| 21 November 2002 | Cordoba and Muslim Spain – a culture of tolerance? | Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, Mehri Niknam[482] |
| 14 November 2002 | Victorian Realism – how real? | Philip Maurice Davis,[483] A. N. Wilson, Dinah Birch[262] |
| 7 November 2002 | Human Nature – innate or nurtured? | Steven Pinker, Janet Radcliffe Richards, John N. Gray |
| 31 October 2002 | Architecture and Power – imagery of imperialism | Adrian Tinniswood, Gavin Stamp, Gillian Darley[484] |
| 24 October 2002 | The Scientist in History – missionary or monster? | John Gribbin, Patricia Fara,[318] Hugh Pennington |
| 17 October 2002 | Slavery and Empire – were Britons also captives? | Linda Colley, Catherine Hall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
2001–2002
2000–2001
1999–2000
From 1 June 2000, and the discussion on The American Ideal, the programme moved from 30 minutes to a 45-minute format.
1998–1999
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- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 19 March 2015, Al-Ghazali
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 12 March 2015, Dark matter
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 5 March 2015, Beowulf
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 26 February, 2015, The Eunuch
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 19 February, 2015, Wealth of Nations
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 12 February, 2015, The Photon
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 5 February, 2015, Ashoka the Great
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 29 January, 2015, Thucydides
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 22 January, 2015, Phenomenology
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 15 January, 2015, Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 18 December 2014, Truth
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 4 December 2014, Behavioural ecology
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 4 December 2014, Zen
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 27 November 2014, Franz Kafka
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 20 November 2014, Aesop
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 13 November 2014, Brunel
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 06 November 2014, Hatshepsut
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 30 October, Nuclear Fusion
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 23 October , The Haitian Revolution
- 1 2 3 4 5 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 16 October 2014, Rudyard Kipling
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 9 October 2014, The Battle of Talas
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 2 October 2014, Julius Caesar
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 25 September 2014, e (mathematical constant)
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 10 July, The Sun
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 3 July, Mrs Dalloway
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 26 June, Hildegard of Bingen
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 19 June 2014, The Philosophy of Solitude
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 12 June 2014, Robert Boyle
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 5 June 2014, The Bluestockings
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 29 May 2014, The Talmud
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 22 May 2014, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 15 May 2014, Photosynthesis
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 8 May 2014, The Sino-Japanese War
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 1 May 2014, The Tale of Sinuhe
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 24 April 2014, Tristram Shandy
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 17 April 2014, The Domesday Book
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 10 April 2014, Strabo's Geographica
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 3 April 2014, States of Matter
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 27 March 2014, Weber's The Protestant Ethic
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 20 March 2014, Bishop Berkeley
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 13 March 2014, The Trinity
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 6 March 2014, Spartacus
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 27 February 2014, The Eye
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 20 February 2014, Social Darwinism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 13 February 2014, Chivalry
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 6 February 2014, The Phoenicians
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 30 January 2014, Catastrophism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 23 January 2014, Sources of Early Chinese History
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 16 January 2014, The Battle of Tours
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 3 January 2014, Plato's Symposium
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 26 December 2013, The Medici
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 19 December 2013, Complexity
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 12 December 2013, Pliny the Younger
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 5 December 2013, Hindu Ideas of Creation
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 28 November 2013, The Microscope
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 21 November 2013, Pocahontas
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 14 November 2013, The Tempest
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 7 November 2013, Ordinary Language Philosophy
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 31 Oct 2013, The Berlin Conference
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 24 Oct 2013, The Corn laws
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 17 Oct 2013, The Book of Common Prayer
- ↑ British Academy for the humanities and social sciences, Professor Alexandra Walsham Professor of Reformation History, University of Exeter
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, Galen
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, Exoplanets
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, The Marmaluks
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, Blaise Pascal
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 4 July 2013. In Our Time - The Invention of Radio
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 27 June 2013. In Our Time - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 20 June 2013. In Our Time - The Physiocrats
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 13 June 2013. In Our Time - Prophecy
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 6 June 2013. In Our Time - Relativity
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 30 May 2013. In Our Time - Queen Zenobia
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 23 May 2013. In Our Time - Lévi-Strauss
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 16 May 2013. In Our Time - Cosmic Rays
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 9 May 2013. In Our Time - Icelandic Sagas
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2013. In Our Time - Gnosticism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 25 April 2013. In Our Time - Montaigne
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 18 April 2013. In Our Time - Putney Debates
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 11 April 2013. In Our Time - Amazons
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 4 April 2013. In Our Time - Japan's Sakoku Period
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 28 March 2013. In Our Time - Water
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 21 March 2013. In Our Time - Alfred Russel Wallace
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 14 March 2013. In Our Time - Chekhov
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 7 March 2013. In Our Time - Absolute Zero
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 28 February 2013. In Our Time - Pitt Rivers
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 21 February 2013. In Our Time - Decline and Fall
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 14 February 2013. In Our Time - Ice Ages
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 7 February 2013. In Our Time - Epicureanism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 31 January 2013. In Our Time - The War of 1812
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 24 January 2013. In Our Time - Romulus and Remus
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 17 January 2013. In Our Time - Comets
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 10 January 2013. In Our Time - Le Morte d'Arthur
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 27 December 2012. In Our Time - The Cult of Mithras
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2012. In Our Time - The South Sea Bubble
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 13 December 2012. In Our Time - Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 6 December 2012. In Our Time - Bertrand Russell
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 29 November 2012. In Our Time - Crystallography
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 22 November 2012. In Our Time - The Borgias
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 15 November 2012. In Our Time - Simone Weil
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 08 November 2012. In Our Time - The Upanishads
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 01 November 2012. In Our Time - The Anarchy
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2012. In Our Time - Fermat's Last Theorem
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 18 October 2012. In Our Time - Hannibal
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 11 October 2012. In Our Time - Hannibal
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 4 October 2012. In Our Time - Gerald of Wales
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 27 September 2012. In Our Time - The Ontological Argument
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 20 September 2012. In Our Time - The Druids
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, 13 September 2012. In Our Time
- ↑ John Innes Centre - Newd. Prof Cathie Martin made an MBE
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 12 July 2012, Hadrian's Wall
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 5 July 2012, Scepticism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 28 June 2012, Al-Kindi
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 21 June 2012, Annie Besant
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 14 June 2012, James Joyce's Ulysses
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 7 June 2012, King Solomon
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 31 May 2012, The Trojan War
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 24 May 2012, Marco Polo
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 17 May 2012, Clausewitz and On War
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 10 May 2012, Game Theory
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 3 May 2012, Voltaire's Candide
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 26 April 2012, Battle of Bosworth Field
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 19 April 2012, Neoplatonism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 12 April 2012, Early Geology
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 5 April 2012, Quakers
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 29 March 2012, The Measurement of Time
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 22 March 2012, Moses Mendelssohn
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 15 March 2012, Vitruvius and De Architectura
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 8 March 2012, Lyrical Ballads
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 1 March 2012, Benjamin Franklin
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 23 February 2012, Conductors
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 16 February 2012, The An Lushan Rebellion
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 9 February 2012, Erasmus
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 2 February 2012, The Kama Sutra
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 26 January 2012, The Scientific method
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 19 January 2012, 1848: Year of Revolution
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 12 January 2012, The Safavid Dynasty
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 29 December 2011, Macromolecules
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 22 December 2011, Robinson Crusoe
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 15 December 2011, The Concordat of Worms
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 8 December 2011, Heraclitus
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 1 December 2011, Christina Rossetti
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 24 November 2011, Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 17 November 2011, Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 10 November 2011, The Continental-Analytic Split
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 3 November 2011, The Moon
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 27 October 2011, The Siege of Tenochtitlan
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 20 October 2011, Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 13 October 2011, The Ming Voyages
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 6 October 2011, David Hume
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 27 September 2011, The Etruscan Civilisation
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 22 September 2011, Shinto
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In our Time, 15 September 2011, The Hippocratic Oath
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 7 July 2011, The Minoan Civilisation
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 23 June 2011, Malthusianism
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 9 June 2011, The Origins of Infectious Disease
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 2 June 2011, Battle of Stamford Bridge
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 26 May 2011, Xenophon
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 19. May 2011, Custer's Last Stand
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 12. May 2011, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 5. May 2011, Islamic Law and its Origins
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 28. April, Cogito Ergo Sum
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 21 April 2011, The Pelagian Controversy
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 14 April 2011, The Neutrino
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 7 April 2011, Octavia Hill
- ↑ BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 31 March 2011, The Bhagavad Gita
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 18 November 2010, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 11 November 2010, Women and Enlightenment Science
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 4 November 2010, Women and Enlightenment Science
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 28 October 2010, The Unicorn
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 21 October 2010, History of Logic
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 14 October 2010, Sturm und Drang
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 7 October 2010, The Spanish Armada
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 30 September 2010, The Delphic Oracle
- 1 2 3 BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, 23 September 2010, Imaginary numbers
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- ↑ Kate Crosby, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS).
- ↑ Mahinda Deagallee, Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.
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- ↑ Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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