In Our Time

BBC Radio 4

Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and…

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Archive: Plate Tectonics 2026-08-27 · 44m
Archive: Hatshepsut 2026-08-20 · 48m
Archive: Coffee 2026-08-13 · 57m
Pockets (from Here For The History) 2026-08-07 · 37m
Archive: Aphra Behn 2026-08-06 · 52m
Seashells 2026-07-30 · 53m
Vigée Le Brun 2026-07-23 · 56m
The Delian League 2026-07-16 · 55m
Machado de Assis 2026-07-09 · 54m
The Global Story - The soft power superpower, with Roman Mars 2026-07-03 · 27m
The Evolution of Trees 2026-07-02 · 55m
The Welsh Marches 2026-06-25 · 52m
The Levellers 2026-06-18 · 56m
The Garamantes 2026-06-11 · 58m
Joseph Roth 2026-06-04 · 55m
Cybernetics 2026-05-28 · 53m
Indian Indentured Labour 2026-05-21 · 52m
M.C. Escher 2026-05-14 · 55m
Handel's Messiah 2026-05-07 · 54m
The Spanish-American War 1898 2026-04-30 · 55m
Silicon 2026-04-23 · 53m
Dadaism 2026-04-16 · 51m
Archaea 2026-04-09 · 53m
Margaret Beaufort 2026-04-02 · 54m
The Columbian Exchange 2026-03-26 · 53m
John Keats 2026-03-19 · 48m
The Code of Hammurabi 2026-03-12 · 50m
Henry IV Part 1 2026-03-05 · 51m
The Roman Arena 2026-02-26 · 50m
The Mariana Trench 2026-02-19 · 58m
On Liberty 2026-02-12 · 49m
Welcoming Misha Glenny to the In Our Time studio 2026-02-05 · 6m
While you wait: The Death of Reading (from The Global Story) 2026-01-29 · 27m
Melvyn Bragg meets Misha Glenny 2026-01-22 · 16m
Dickens (Archive Episode) 2026-01-15 · 44m
Emily Dickinson (Archive Episode) 2026-01-08 · 50m
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Archive Episode) 2026-01-01 · 53m
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism (Archive Episode) 2025-12-25 · 47m
Eclipses (Archive Episode) 2025-12-18 · 50m
Feathered Dinosaurs (Archive Episode) 2025-12-11 · 49m
Pauli's Exclusion Principle (Archive Episode) 2025-12-04 · 49m
Zeno's Paradoxes (Archive Episode) 2025-11-20 · 47m
Thomas Hardy's Poetry (Archive Episode) 2025-11-13 · 51m
The Moon (Archive Episode) 2025-11-06 · 44m
The Waltz (Archive Episode) 2025-10-30 · 52m
Hannah Arendt (Archive Episode) 2025-10-23 · 48m
The Time Machine (Archive Episode) 2025-10-16 · 52m
The Waltz (Archive Episode) 2025-10-09 · 52m
Sir Thomas Wyatt (Archive Episode) 2025-10-09 · 58m
Julian of Norwich (Archive Episode) 2025-10-02 · 50m
Pheromones (Archive Episode) 2025-09-25 · 49m
Tutankhamun (Archive Episode) 2025-09-18 · 53m
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Archive Episode) 2025-09-11 · 66m
Vincent Van Gogh (Archive Episode) 2025-09-04 · 56m
Demosthenes' Philippics (Archive Episode) 2025-08-28 · 57m
Demosthenes' Philippics (Archive Episode) 2025-08-28 · 57m
Germinal (Archive Episode) 2025-08-21 · 52m
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (Archive Episode) 2025-08-14 · 58m
Napoleon's Hundred Days (Archive Episode) 2025-08-07 · 59m
Vincent van Gogh (Archive Episode) 2025-08-07 · 56m
Civility: talking with those who disagree with you 2025-07-31 · 51m
Dragons 2025-07-24 · 46m
Barbour's 'Brus' 2025-07-17 · 49m
The Evolution of Lungs 2025-07-10 · 48m
The Vienna Secession 2025-07-03 · 54m
Hypnosis 2025-06-26 · 46m
Paul von Hindenburg 2025-06-19 · 52m
Lise Meitner 2025-06-05 · 57m
The Korean Empire 2025-05-29 · 48m
Molière 2025-05-22 · 51m
Typology 2025-05-15 · 51m
The Battle of Clontarf 2025-05-08 · 52m
The Gracchi 2025-05-01 · 49m
Maurice Merleau-Ponty 2025-04-24 · 59m
Thomas Middleton 2025-04-17 · 56m
Cyrus the Great 2025-04-10 · 51m
Pollination 2025-04-03 · 50m
Kali 2025-03-27 · 58m
Oliver Goldsmith 2025-03-20 · 54m
Catherine of Aragon 2025-03-13 · 53m
Sir John Soane 2025-03-06 · 53m
Pope Joan 2025-02-27 · 47m
Socrates in Prison 2025-02-20 · 51m
The Battle of Valmy 2025-02-13 · 48m
Slime Moulds 2025-01-30 · 52m
Vase-mania 2025-01-23 · 56m
Plutarch's Parallel Lives 2025-01-16 · 57m
The Habitability of Planets 2025-01-09 · 53m
Nizami Ganjavi 2025-01-02 · 52m
The Hanoverian Succession 2024-12-26 · 51m
Italo Calvino 2024-12-19 · 49m
The Antikythera Mechanism 2024-12-12 · 51m
George Herbert 2024-12-05 · 52m
The Venetian Empire 2024-11-28 · 51m
Little Women 2024-11-21 · 48m
Hayek's The Road to Serfdom 2024-11-14 · 53m
Robert Graves 2024-11-07 · 55m
The Haymarket Affair 2024-10-31 · 52m
Wormholes 2024-10-24 · 61m
Benjamin Disraeli 2024-10-17 · 51m
Bacteriophages 2024-08-01 · 51m
Monet in England 2024-07-25 · 51m
Karma 2024-07-18 · 51m
Fielding's Tom Jones 2024-07-11 · 55m
The Orkneyinga Saga 2024-07-04 · 51m
Marsilius of Padua 2024-06-27 · 57m
Empress Dowager Cixi 2024-06-20 · 50m
Philippa Foot 2024-06-13 · 58m
Sir Thomas Wyatt 2024-06-06 · 58m
Mercury 2024-05-30 · 54m
Bertolt Brecht 2024-05-23 · 60m
Napoleon's Hundred Days 2024-05-16 · 59m
Lysistrata 2024-05-09 · 55m
Nikola Tesla 2024-05-02 · 53m
The Kalevala 2024-04-25 · 50m
Julian the Apostate 2024-04-18 · 50m
The Waltz 2024-04-11 · 52m
The Mokrani Revolt 2024-04-04 · 58m
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 2024-03-28 · 58m
The Sack of Rome 1527 2024-03-21 · 47m
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 2024-03-14 · 50m
Hormones 2024-03-07 · 50m
The Hanseatic League 2024-02-29 · 49m
Panpsychism 2024-02-22 · 54m
Nefertiti 2024-02-15 · 50m
Condorcet 2024-02-08 · 51m
Twelfth Night, or What You Will 2024-01-25 · 54m
Vincent van Gogh 2024-01-18 · 56m
Tiberius 2024-01-11 · 53m
Karl Barth 2024-01-04 · 55m
Edgar Allan Poe 2023-12-28 · 59m
Marguerite de Navarre 2023-12-21 · 46m
The Theory of the Leisure Class 2023-12-14 · 56m
The Barbary Corsairs 2023-12-07 · 53m
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 2023-11-30 · 52m
Germinal 2023-11-23 · 52m
Julian of Norwich 2023-11-16 · 50m
The Federalist Papers 2023-11-09 · 51m
Plankton 2023-11-02 · 49m
The Economic Consequences of the Peace 2023-10-26 · 66m
The Seventh Seal 2023-10-19 · 49m
Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain 2023-10-19 · 11m
Albert Einstein 2023-10-12 · 49m
Jupiter 2023-07-27 · 53m
Elizabeth Anscombe 2023-07-20 · 55m
Death in Venice 2023-07-13 · 49m
Oedipus Rex 2023-07-06 · 55m
Mitochondria 2023-06-29 · 52m
Louis XIV: The Sun King 2023-06-22 · 47m
Virgil's Georgics 2023-06-15 · 49m
The Shimabara Rebellion 2023-06-08 · 48m
The Dead Sea Scrolls 2023-06-01 · 48m
Walt Whitman 2023-05-25 · 50m
Linnaeus 2023-05-18 · 50m
The Battle of Crécy 2023-05-11 · 51m
Cnut 2023-05-04 · 51m
A Room of One's Own 2023-04-27 · 55m
Solon the Lawgiver 2023-04-20 · 51m
Mercantilism 2023-04-13 · 58m
The Ramayana 2023-04-06 · 50m
Megaliths 2023-03-30 · 50m
Paul Erdős 2023-03-23 · 51m
Stevie Smith 2023-03-16 · 53m
Chartism 2023-03-09 · 51m
Tycho Brahe 2023-03-02 · 54m
Superconductivity 2023-02-23 · 51m
Rawls' Theory of Justice 2023-02-16 · 61m
John Donne 2023-02-09 · 52m
The Great Stink 2023-01-26 · 50m
Persuasion 2023-01-19 · 51m
Citizen Kane 2023-01-12 · 54m
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 2023-01-05 · 55m
The Nibelungenlied 2022-12-29 · 55m
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876 2022-12-22 · 51m
Demosthenes' Philippics 2022-12-15 · 57m
Bauhaus 2022-12-08 · 57m
The Morant Bay Rebellion 2022-12-01 · 54m
Wilfred Owen 2022-11-24 · 57m
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition 2022-11-17 · 56m
Berthe Morisot 2022-11-10 · 60m
The Knights Templar 2022-11-03 · 50m
The Electron 2022-10-27 · 50m
Plato's Atlantis 2022-10-20 · 54m
Nineteen Eighty-Four 2022-10-13 · 53m
John Bull 2022-07-28 · 54m
Angkor Wat 2022-07-21 · 49m
Dylan Thomas 2022-07-14 · 50m
The Death of Stars 2022-07-07 · 58m
Hegel's Philosophy of History 2022-06-23 · 52m
Comenius 2022-06-16 · 57m
Tang Era Poetry 2022-06-09 · 47m
The Davidian Revolution 2022-06-02 · 50m
Early Christian Martyrdom 2022-05-26 · 53m
Olympe de Gouges 2022-05-19 · 49m
Homo erectus 2022-05-12 · 51m
Polidori's The Vampyre 2022-05-05 · 51m
The Sistine Chapel 2022-04-28 · 56m
Antigone 2022-04-21 · 54m
Charisma 2022-04-14 · 53m
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