The Jesuits (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order of priests who became known as “the school masters of Europe”. Founded in the 16th ...
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Hitler in History (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how history has struggled to explain the enormity of the crimes committed in Germany under Adolf Hitler: we have had theories ...
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東方神起 / In Our Time (LIVE TOUR 2013 ~TIME~ FINAL in NISSAN STADIUM Documentary Film)
東方神起TIMEツアーDVD特設サイト http://toho-jp.net/time/dvd/pc.html 12月18日に発売される日産スタジアムのDVDに収録されるバックステージ映像に、「In...
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Cicero (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas developed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) to support and reinvigorate the Roman Republic when, as it ...
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The Anarchy (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the civil war that took place in mid-twelfth century England. The war began as a succession dispute between ...
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Oscar Wilde (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg examines Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetes. In February 1895 Oscar Wilde was at the height of his powers, he was known on both sides of the ...
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Surrealism (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism. 'Si vous aimez L'amour, vous aimerez Surrealisme!'. If you like Love, you'll love Surrealism! Thus was the launch ...
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The Ontological Argument (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological Argument. In the eleventh century St Anselm of Canterbury proposed that it was possible to prove the ...
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The Phoenicians (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Phoenicians. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about a people from the Levant who were accomplished sailors and ...
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The Borgias (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Borgias, the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. Famed for their treachery and corruption, the Borgias produced ...
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Marx (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Karl Marx. "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Religion is the opium of the people", and ...
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In Our Time: S21/29 The Great Irish Famine (April 4 2019)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why the potato crop failures in the 1840s had such a catastrophic impact in Ireland. It is estimated that one million people died ...
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Psychoanalysis and Literature (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss role of Freudian analysis in understanding the great works of literature. Freud said, “The poets and philosophers before me ...
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Christopher Marlowe (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christopher Marlowe. In the prologue to The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe has Machiavel say:"I count religion but a ...
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Greyfriars and Blackfriars (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans, known as the Blackfriars and Greyfriars. "Just as it is better to light ...
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Chaucer (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Geoffrey Chaucer, often called the father of English literature."In Southwark at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my ...
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In Our Time: S7/13 The Venerable Bede (Nov 25 2004)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Venerable Bede. In 731 AD, in the most far-flung corner of the known universe, a book was written that represented a ...
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St Thomas Aquinas (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life, works and enduring influence of the medieval philosopher and theologian St Thomas Aquinas with Martin Palmer, John ...
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Ice Ages (In Our Time)
Jane Francis, Richard Corfield and Carrie Lear join Melvyn Bragg to discuss ice ages, periods when a reduction in the surface temperature of the Earth has ...
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東方神起 / In Our Time (Short Ver.)
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In Our Time / 東方神起
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Rhetoric (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric. Gorgias, the great sophist philosopher and master of rhetoric said, "Speech is a powerful lord that with the smallest ...
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Genghis Khan (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Genghis Khan. Born Temujin in the 12th Century, he was cast out by his tribe when just a child and left to struggle for survival ...
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The Bronze Age Collapse (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the name given by many historians to what appears to have been a sudden, uncontrolled ...
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The Medieval University (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval universities.In the 11th and 12th centuries a new type of institution started to appear in the major cities of ...
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Zen (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen. It's often thought of as a form of Buddhism that emphasises the practice of meditation over any particular set of beliefs.
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The Restoration (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Restoration. On 29th May 1660, on his thirtieth birthday, Charles II rode into London on horseback and was restored to the ...
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Camus (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Algerian-French writer and Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. Shortly after the new year of 1960, a powerful sports ...
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The Wars of the Roses (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Wars of the Roses which have been the scene for many a historical skirmish over the ages: The period in the fifteenth ...
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Sartre (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, the French novelist, playwright, and philosopher who became the king of intellectual Paris and a focus of ...
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The Speed of Light (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light. Scientists and thinkers have been fascinated with the speed of light for millennia. Aristotle wrongly ...
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James Joyce's Ulysses (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's novel Ulysses. First published ninety years ago in Paris, Joyce's masterpiece is a sprawling and startlingly ...
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The Arab Conquests (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Arab conquests - an extraordinary period in the 7th and 8th centuries when the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula conquered ...
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The 12th Century Renaissance (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the changes in the intellectual world of Western Europe in the 12th Century, and their origins. This was a time of Crusades, the ...
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Proust (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work Marcel Proust whose novel À La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or In Search of Lost Time, has been called the ...
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Phenomenology - In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss phenomenology, a style of philosophy developed by the German thinker Edmund Husserl in the first decades of the 20th ...
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The Plague of Our Time: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic
This is part three of a three part documentary filmed to commemorate NEJM's 200th Anniversary. The entire documentary is entitled "Getting Better". The film ...
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Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates (1649-1705) who, with Israel Tonge, spread rumours of a Catholic plot to assassinate Charles II. From 1678, they ...
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The Later Romantics (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, the tragedy and the idealism of the Later Romantics. There must have been something extraordinary about the ...
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Antarctica (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of Antarctica.The most southerly of the continents is the bleakest and coldest place on Earth. Almost entirely ...
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In Our Time: Lord Byron ( BBC Radio 4 - 2011)
In Our Time: Radio interview BBC Radio 4 - Lord Byron Thursday January 6th, 2011 Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's ...
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Alfred and the Battle of Edington (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss King Alfred and the defeat of the Vikings at Battle of Edington. At the end of the 9th century the Vikings controlled almost all of ...
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