In Our Time(a Titles &
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500+ eps | BBC Radio 4 (UK) | 45 min |
In Our Time(a Titles &
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| aired from: Oct 1998 to: |
500+ eps | BBC Radio 4 (UK) | 45 min |
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Episode # Air Date Titles
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1st series 1998 - 30 minutes
001. 01-01 Oct 15 98 War in 20th Century - ideas influencing C20th human rights & warfare
002. 01-02 Oct 22 98 Politics in 20th Century - politics and morality today
003. 01-03 Oct 29 98 Science's Revelations - has science ruined poetic wonder at world?
004. 01-04 Nov 5 98 Science in 20th Century - how perceptions science changed in C20th
005. 01-05 Nov 12 98 The City in 20th Century - innovative developments of the city in C20th
006. 01-06 Nov 19 98 The Brain and Consciousness - memory and functioning of the brain
007. 01-07 Nov 26 98 Work in 20th Century - changing ideas about function of work in C20th
008. 01-08 Dec 3 98 History's Relevance in 20th Century - how relevant is study of history?
009. 01-09 Dec 10 98 Cultural Rights in 20th Century - impact globalisation on human rights
010. 01-10 Dec 17 98 The American Century - how legitimate call C20th American century?
011. 01-11 Dec 24 98 Neuroscience in 20th Century - what know and don't know about brain
012. 01-12 Dec 31 98 British Empire's Legacy - impact Britain's colonial past on identity now
013. 01-13 Jan 7 99 Feminish - the development of the empowerment of women in C20th
014. 01-14 Jan 14 99 Genetic Engineering - implications of developments in genetic eng
015. 01-15 Jan 21 99 Modern Culture - the definition and state of modern culture in C20th
016. 01-16 Jan 28 99 Ageing - ethical, economic & biological implications of living longer
017. 01-17 Feb 4 99 Psychoanalysis & its Legacy - relevance of psychoanalysis end C20th
018. 01-18 Feb 11 99 Language and the Mind - is language formation innate or cultural?
019. 01-19 Feb 18 99 Space in Religion & Science - cyberspace introduced a new concept
020. 01-20 Feb 25 99 The Avant Garde's Decline & Fall in C20 - history/legacy a/g painting
021. 01-21 Mar 4 99 Shakespeare & Literary Criticism - enduring popular/academic appeal
022. 01-22 Mar 11 99 History as Science - importance geography & ecology in world history
023. 01-23 Mar 18 99 Animal Experiments & Rights - role of animals in search for knowledge
024. 01-24 Mar 25 99 Architecture in the 20th Century - what does it say about the age?
025. 01-25 Apr 1 99 Good and Evil - how judge good & evil in modern western civilisation
026. 01-26 Apr 8 99 Writing & Political Oppression - do writers have a political role today?
027. 01-27 Apr 15 99 Evolution - future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology
028. 01-28 Apr 22 99 Fundamentalism - roots & consequences of religious fundamentalism
029. 01-29 Apr 29 99 Artificial Intelligence - are we near to the thinking, feeling computer?
030. 01-30 May 6 99 Mathematics - importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences
031. 01-31 May 13 99 Multiculturalism - twentieth century's vast population and cultural shifts
032. 01-32 May 20 99 The Universe's Origins - hist of what we know about origins of universe
033. 01-33 May 27 99 Memory and Culture - how our ways of remembering have changed
034. 01-34 Jun 3 99 Just War - where the idea of a just war originated & if it can still exist
035. 01-35 Jun 10 99 The Monarchy - enduring strengths & current role of British monarchy
036. 01-36 Jun 17 99 The Great Disruption - C20th shift from industrial to information society
037. 01-37 Jun 24 99 Capitalism - hist of capitalism from Marx to collapse of Communism
038. 01-38 Jul 1 99 Intelligence - the origins, manifestations & possibilities of intelligence
039. 01-39 Jul 8 99 Africa - the roots of Africa's current political and social crises
040. 01-40 Jul 15 99 Truth, Lies & Fiction - does it matter if memoirs aren't entirely truthful?
041. 01-41 Jul 22 99 Pain - the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain
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2nd series 1999 - 30 minutes, except where stated
042. 02-01 Sep 23 99 Genetic Determinism - the part genes play in our personalities
043. 02-02 Sep 30 99 Maths and Storytelling - is it possible apply maths/logic to literature?
044. 02-03 Oct 7 99 Utopia - why we are as enthralled as every by the idea of a Utopia
045. 02-04 Oct 14 99 The Nation State - is it appropriate to think of the UK as a nation?
046. 02-05 Oct 21 99 The Individual - concept of the individual from Renaissance to today
047. 02-06 Oct 28 99 Atrocity in the 20th Century - C20th's widespread & chilling inhumanity
048. 02-07 Nov 4 99 Education - the history and the modern purpose of education
049. 02-08 Nov 11 99 The Novel - the development and the future of the novel
050. 02-09 Nov 18 99 Progress - has mankind made as much moral as material progress?
051. 02-10 Nov 25 99 Consciousness - why ideas about it preoccupy philosophers/scientists
052. 02-11 Dec 2 99 Tragedy - does ancient genre of tragedy have a place in our own time?
053. 02-12 Dec 9 99 Childhood - how perceptions of childhood changed over last 100 years
054. 02-13 Dec 16 99 Medical Ethics - technological advances and ethics modern medicine
055. 02-14 Dec 23 99 Prayer - the purpose and effect of prayer
056. 02-15 Dec 30 99 Time - history of mankind's attempt to understand the nature of time
057. 02-16 Jan 6 00 Climate Change - predictions/solutions global warming, rising sea level
058. 02-17 Jan 13 00 Information Technology - social/economic consequence info revolution
059. 02-18 Jan 20 00 Masculinity in Literature - changing ideals of masculinity C20 literature
060. 02-19 Jan 27 00 Economic Rights - the relationship between democracy and capitalism
061. 02-20 Feb 3 00 Republicanism - development English republicanism Cromwell to today
062. 02-21 Feb 10 00 Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment - sci legacy of Goethe
063. 02-22 Feb 17 00 Reading - history of the politics, practice and process of reading
064. 02-23 Feb 24 00 Grand Unified Theory - C20 physics pursuit ultimate theory everything
065. 02-24 Mar 2 00 Metamorphosis - the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid's work
066. 02-25 Mar 9 00 The Age of Doubt - spread of religious doubt over last three centuries
067. 02-26 Mar 16 00 Lenin - what drove the Soviet leader Lenin and enabled his success
068. 02-27 Mar 23 00 Materialism & Consumer - development/future of material culture
069. 02-28 Mar 30 00 History & Understanding Past - can we predict future from past?
070. 02-29 Apr 6 00 The Natural Order - science taxonomy, classification natural world
071. 02-30 Apr 13 00 New Wars - are we in a new era in the history of modern warfare?
072. 02-31 Apr 20 00 Englishness - the characteristics of the English identity
073. 02-32 Apr 27 00 Human Origins - the evolution of the human species
074. 02-33 May 4 00 Death - the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death
075. 02-34 May 11 00 Shakespeare's Work - why Shakespeare's work is universal
076. 02-35 May 18 00 War of the Roses - C15th wars of royal houses of Lancaster and York
077. 02-36 May 25 00 Chemical Elements - chemistry understanding irreducible substances
078. 02-37 Jun 1 00 The American Ideal - ideals underwriting idealism of America (45 mins)
079. 02-38 Jun 8 00 The Renaissance - modern claims re culture of Renaissance (45 mins)
080. 02-39 Jun 15 00 Inspiration and Genius - is genius born or made?
081. 02-40 Jun 22 00 Biography - why public is fascinated by private lives of individuals
082. 02-41 Jun 29 00 Imagination & Consciousness - how neuroscience explains (45 mins)
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3rd series 2000 - 30 or 45 minutes, as stated
083. 03-01 Sep 28 00 London - history from neolithic origin to today's digitalised capital (45')
084. 03-02 Oct 5 00 Hitler in History - Hitler and Nazis via historiographical theories (45')
085. 03-03 Oct 12 00 The Romantics - the ideals, exponents & legacy of Romanticism (45')
086. 03-04 Oct 19 00 Laws of Nature - are truths of physics true in all areas existence? (30')
087. 03-05 Oct 26 00 The Tudor State - reshaping England as modern state by Tudors (45')
088. 03-06 Nov 2 00 Evolutionary Psychology - the basis and context for its ideas (30')
089. 03-07 Nov 9 00 Psychoanalysis & Literature - Freudian analysis in literature (45')
090. 03-08 Nov 16 00 Nihilism - history of the philosophy that claims truths are illusory (30')
091. 03-09 Jan 4 01 Gothic - origins and significance of the C18th Gothic movement (30)
092. 03-10 Jan 11 01 Mathematics and Platonism - is maths invention or discovery? (30')
093. 03-11 Jan 18 01 The Enlightenment in Britain - role of British thinkers (45')
094. 03-12 Jan 25 01 Science and Religion - its areas of conflict and agreement (45')
095. 03-13 Feb 1 01 Imperial Science - agriculture or trade drive C19 UK imperialism? (30')
096. 03-14 Feb 8 01 Humanism - history/legacy classical humanism, invented Cicero (30')
097. 03-15 Feb 15 01 The Restoration - reign Charles II & consequences of Restoration (30')
098. 03-16 Feb 22 01 Quantum Gravity - C20th attempts to understand quantum world (30')
099. 03-17 Mar 1 01 Money - are economic factors really behind all historical events? (30')
100. 03-18 Mar 15 01 Shakespeare's Life - the enigma of the life William Shakespeare (30')
101. 03-19 Mar 22 01 Fossils - their significance in history and impact of techniques (45')
102. 03-20 Mar 29 01 Philosophy of Love - western understanding of it since Plato (30')
103. 03-21 Apr 5 01 Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th Century - causes and events (30')
104. 03-22 Apr 12 01 Black Holes - the ghosts of massive stars (30')
105. 03-23 Apr 19 01 Glorious Revolution - were events of 1688 glorious/revolutionary? (45')
106. 03-24 Apr 26 01 Literary Modernism - movement embracing Joyce Lawrence Woolf (45')
107. 03-25 May 3 01 Evil - the notion of evil in western philosophy (30')
108. 03-28 Jun 14 01 French Revolution's Legacy - impact on European culture/politics (30')
109. 03-29 Jun 21 01 The Sonnet - the most enduring form in the poet's armoury (30')
110. 03-30 Jun 28 01 Existentialism - the C20th philosophy of existentialism (30')
111. 03-31 Jul 5 01 The Earth's Origins - the origins of the earth (30')
112. 03-32 Jul 12 01 Dickens - achievement/legacy C19 literary giant Charles Dickens (30')
113. 03-33 Jul 19 01 Byzantium - culture, history & legacy eastern Byzantine Empire (45')
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4th series 2001 - 45 minutes, except where stated
114. 04-01 Oct 18 01 Democracy - origins of most cherished form government in world (30')
115. 04-02 Oct 25 01 Napoleon & Wellington - comparative history 2 titans C19 history (30')
116. 04-03 Nov 1 01 Confucius - the Chinese philosophy of Confucianism (30')
117. 04-04 Nov 8 01 The British Empire - the ethos and legacy of the British Empire (30')
118. 04-05 Nov 15 01 Surrealism - the art of the unconscious
119. 04-06 Nov 22 01 Oceanography - what sci reveals & what don't know about sea (30')
120. 04-07 Nov 29 01 Third Crusade - the highs and lows of the third crusade (30')
121. 04-08 Dec 6 01 Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the aesthetes (30')
122. 04-09 Dec 13 01 Genetics - the development of the science of genetics (30')
123. 04-10 Dec 20 01 Rome & European Civilisation - role Rome played Euro civilisation (30')
124. 04-11 Dec 27 01 Food - cultural history of food in Modern Europe since Renaissance
125. 04-12 Jan 3 02 Sensibility - the 18th century literary cult of sensibility (30')
126. 04-13 Jan 10 02 Nuclear Physics - C20 development nuclear physics as science (30')
127. 04-14 Jan 17 02 Catharism - a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy
128. 04-15 Jan 24 02 Happiness - does 'happiness' mean living life of pleasure or virtue (30')
129. 04-16 Jan 31 02 Yeats & Mysticism - strange & mystical world of Irish poet Yeats (30')
130. 04-17 Feb 7 02 The Universe's Shape - the shape, size and topology of universe (30')
131. 04-18 Feb 14 02 Anatomy - 2000yr history of man's quest understand human body (30')
132. 04-19 Feb 21 02 What Were the Celts in Britain Really Like? (30')
133. 04-20 Feb 28 02 Virtue - Is it Derived from Reason?
134. 04-21 Mar 7 02 John Milton, Poet or Politician? (30')
135. 04-22 Mar 14 02 Buddhism - Why Has It Captured the Spirit of Our Age?
136. 04-23 Mar 21 02 Marriage - Its Various Forms and the Role of the State
137. 04-24 Mar 28 02 The Artist - A Special Kind of Human Being?
138. 04-25 Apr 4 02 ET - New Life Within Our Solar System
139. 04-26 Apr 11 02 Bohemia - What Did It Mean to Be Bohemian?
140. 04-27 Apr 25 02 Tolstoy - The Influence of the Russian Novel
141. 04-28 May 2 02 Schrodinger's Cat - Quantum Mechanics
142. 04-29 May 9 02 The Examined Life - Is an Unexamined Life Worth Living?
143. 04-30 May 16 02 Chaos Theory - Is the Universe Chaotic or Orderly?
144. 04-31 May 23 02 History of Drugs - Their Role in Medicine and the Arts
145. 04-32 May 30 02 The Grand Tour - What Drove This Desire for Travel?
146. 04-33 Jun 6 02 The Soul - The Key to Our Individuality as Humans?
147. 04-34 Jun 13 02 The American West - Was It an "Experiment of Liberty"?
148. 04-35 Jun 20 02 Richard Wagner - His Influence on the German Spirit
149. 04-36 Jun 27 02 Cultural Imperialism - Should We Try to Prevent It?
150. 04-37 Jul 4 02 Freedom - A Principle Worth Fighting and Dying For?
151. 04-38 Jul 11 02 Psychoanalysis - Do People Crave Dictatorship?
152. 04-39 Jul 18 02 The Role of History & Heritage in Formation of British National Identity
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5th series 2002 - 45 minutes
153. 05-01 Oct 17 02 Slavery and empire - were Britons also captives?
154. 05-02 Oct 24 02 The scientist in history - missionary or monster?
155. 05-03 Oct 31 02 Architecture and power - imagery of imperialism
156. 05-04 Nov 7 02 Human Nature - innate or nurtured?
157. 05-05 Nov 14 02 Victorian Realism - how real?
158. 05-06 Nov 21 02 Cordoba and Muslim Spain - a culture of tolerance?
159. 05-07 Nov 28 02 Imagination - just what is it?
160. 05-08 Dec 5 02 The Scottish Enlightenment - how enlightened?
161. 05-09 Dec 12 02 Disease - the fight against diseases and plagues
162. 05-10 Dec 19 02 The Calendar - a history of the Calendar
163. 05-11 Feb 6 03 The Epic - from Homer to Joyce
164. 05-12 Feb 13 03 Chance and Design in Evolution - Design in Nature
165. 05-13 Feb 20 03 The Lindisfarne Gospels - unifying Christianity in Britain
166. 05-14 Feb 27 03 The Aztecs - looking behind the myths
167. 05-15 Mar 6 03 Meteorology - why does it still fascinate us?
168. 05-16 Mar 13 03 Redemption - the concept of salvation
169. 05-17 Mar 20 03 Originality - is it just a romantic notion?
170. 05-18 Mar 27 03 Supernovas - the life cycle of stars
171. 05-19 Apr 3 03 The Spanish Civil War - causes and legacy
172. 05-20 Apr 17 03 Proust - his life and work
173. 05-21 Apr 24 03 Youth - from Adonis to James Dean
174. 05-22 May 1 03 Roman Britain - the effects of 400 years of occupation
175. 05-23 May 8 03 The Jacobite Rebellion - could it have succeeded?
176. 05-24 May 15 03 The Holy Grail - just a medieval myth?
177. 05-25 May 22 03 Blood - its religious, medical and moral significance
178. 05-26 May 29 03 Memory - and the brain
179. 05-27 Jun 5 03 The Lunar Society - scientific ferment 200 years ago
180. 05-28 Jun 12 03 The Art of War - maintaining the objective?
181. 05-29 Jun 19 03 The Aristocracy - how the ruling class survives
182. 05-30 Jun 26 03 The East India Co - a corporate route to Empire
183. 05-31 Jul 3 03 Vulcanology - significance of volcanoes
184. 05-32 Jul 10 03 Nature - from Homer to Darwin
185. 05-33 Jul 17 03 The Apocalypse - was it a revelation?
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6th series 2003 - 45 minutes (60 minutes for Dec 26)
186. 06-01 Oct 2 03 James Clerk Maxwell - great 19th century physicist
187. 06-02 Oct 9 03 Bohemianism - a life of art, freedom & poverty
188. 06-03 Oct 16 03 The Schism - between East and West in Christianity
189. 06-04 Oct 23 03 Infinity - a brief history
190. 06-05 Oct 30 03 Robin Hood - the greatest of English myths
191. 06-06 Nov 6 03 Sensation- the best sellers of the 19th century
192. 06-07 Nov 13 03 Duty - concepts of obligation
193. 06-08 Nov 20 03 Ageing the Earth - a journey in geological time
194. 06-09 Nov 27 03 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre - slaughter in Paris
195. 06-10 Dec 4 03 Wittgenstein - a philosophy of linguistics
196. 06-11 Dec 11 03 The Devil - a brief biography
197. 06-12 Dec 18 03 The Alphabet - its creation and development
198. 06-13 Dec 26 03 Lamarck & Natural Selection - Lamarckian Heresy (60 min) [Fr not Th]
199. 06-14 Jan 29 04 Cryptography - secret history of ciphers and codes
200. 06-15 Feb 5 04 The Battle of Thermopylae - battle that defined East & West
201. 06-16 Feb 12 04 The Sublime - defining the state of awe
202. 06-17 Feb 19 04 Rutherford - the father of nuclear physics
203. 06-18 Feb 26 04 The Mughal Empire - the glory of India
204. 06-19 Mar 4 04 Dreams - is there a science of dreams?
205. 06-20 Mar 11 04 The Norse Gods - the great myths of pagan Europe
206. 06-21 Mar 18 04 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
207. 06-22 Mar 25 04 Theories of Everything - still the holy grail of physics?
208. 06-23 Apr 1 04 China - Warring States Period - fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation
209. 06-24 Apr 8 04 The Fall - how Adam and Eve affect us all
210. 06-25 Apr 15 04 The Later Romantics - the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley
211. 06-26 Apr 22 04 Hysteria - the normal state of human beings?
212. 06-27 Apr 29 04 Tea - an empire in a teacup
213. 06-28 May 6 04 Heroism - do we live in an heroic age?
214. 06-29 May 13 04 Zero - everything about nothing
215. 06-30 May 20 04 Toleration - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom
216. 06-31 May 27 04 Planets - the astronomy of the 21st century
217. 06-32 Jun 3 04 Babylon - the great forgotten civilisation
218. 06-33 Jun 10 04 Empiricism - the English philosophy?
219. 06-34 Jun 17 04 Renaissance Magic - the great passion of the age
220. 06-35 Jun 24 04 G Washington & American Revolution - most significant event in hist
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7th series 2004 - 45 minutes
221. 07-01 Sep 2 04 Pi - the number that doesn't add up
222. 07-02 Sep 9 04 The Odyssey - Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home
223. 07-03 Sep 16 04 Agincourt - the real facts behind the battle
224. 07-04 Sep 23 04 The Origins of Life - how it all began
225. 07-05 Sep 30 04 Politeness - the great 18th century craze
226. 07-06 Oct 7 04 Jean-Paul Sartre - a man condemned to be free
227. 07-07 Oct 14 04 The Han Synthesis - creating the Chinese cosmos
228. 07-08 Oct 14 04 Witchcraft - Reformation Europe turned upon itself
229. 07-09 Oct 28 04 Rhetoric - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues
230. 07-10 Nov 4 04 Electrickery - the origins of electricity
231. 07-11 Nov 11 04 Zoroastrianism - was religion of Persian Empire the first monotheism?
232. 07-12 Nov 18 04 Higgs Boson - the search for the God particle
233. 07-13 Nov 25 04 The Venerable Bede - the father of English history
234. 07-14 Dec 2 04 Carl Gustav Jung - Discovering the Self
235. 07-15 Dec 9 04 Machiavelli & I City States - high pol's, low cunning in It Renaissance
236. 07-16 Dec 16 04 Second Law Thermodynamics - most important thing you'll ever know
237. 07-17 Dec 23 04 Faust - the original pact with the Devil
238. 07-18 Dec 30 04 The Roman Republic - what were Rome's republican ideals?
239. 07-19 Jan 6 05 Assassination Tsar Alexander II - did his killing cause Russian Rev'n?
240. 07-20 Jan 13 05 The Mind/Body Problem - does mind rule body or body rule mind?
241. 07-21 Feb 17 05 The Cambrian Explosion - the big bang of evolutionary history
242. 07-22 Feb 24 05 Alchemy - seeking the perfection of all things
243. 07-23 Mar 3 05 Stoicism - the search for inner calm
244. 07-24 Mar 10 05 Modernist Utopias - the original 21st century
245. 07-25 Mar 17 05 Dark Energy - the unknown force breaking the universe apart
246. 07-26 Mar 24 05 Angels - how they got their wings
247. 07-27 Mar 31 05 John Ruskin - a different kind of Victorian
248. 07-28 Apr 7 05 Alfred and the Battle of Edington - without Alfred, no England?
249. 07-29 Apr 14 05 Archaeology and Imperialism - conquest of the past
250. 07-30 Apr 21 05 The Aeneid - the Roman history of the world
251. 07-31 Apr 28 05 Perception and the Senses - how do we see what we see?
252. 07-32 May 5 05 Abelard and Heloise - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris
253. 07-33 May 19 05 Beauty - the philosophy of beauty
254. 07-34 May 26 05 The Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France
255. 07-35 Jun 2 05 Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics?
256. 07-36 Jun 9 05 The Scriblerus Club - the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century
257. 07-37 Jun 16 05 Paganism in Renaissance - how class gods returned Christian cities
258. 07-38 Jun 23 05 The KT Boundary - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away?
259. 07-39 Jun 30 05 Merlin - the original Welsh wizard
260. 07-40 Jul 7 05 Christopher Marlowe - poet, spy, atheist, murder victim?
261. 07-41 Jul 14 05 Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
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8th series 2005 - 45 minutes
262. 08-01 Sep 29 05 Magnetism - an attractive history
263. 08-02 Oct 5 05 Field of the Cloth of Gold - a Renaissance entente cordiale
264. 08-03 Oct 13 05 The Rise of the Mammals - life in a cold climate
265. 08-04 Oct 20 05 Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy
266. 08-05 Oct 27 05 Samuel Johnson and His Circle - life with professional man of letters
267. 08-06 Nov 3 05 Asteroids - celestial bodies from the beginning of time
268. 08-07 Nov 10 05 Greyfriars & Blackfriars - phil, evangelism & fund-raising 13thC Church
269. 08-08 Nov 17 05 Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
270. 08-09 Nov 24 05 The Graviton - the quest for the theoretical gravity particle
271. 08-10 Dec 1 05 Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'
272. 08-11 Dec 8 05 Artificial Intelligence - the quest for a machine that can think
273. 08-12 Dec 15 05 The Peterloo Massacre - democratic protest and brutal repression
274. 08-13 Dec 22 05 Heaven - a journey through the afterlife
275. 08-14 Dec 29 05 Aeschylus' Oresteia - the birth of tragedy
276. 08-15 Jan 5 06 The Oath - guaranteeing law, government and army in Classical world
277. 08-16 Jan 12 06 Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics
278. 08-17 Jan 19 06 Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
279. 08-18 Jan 26 06 Seventeenth Century Print Culture - piety, populism & political protest
280. 08-19 Feb 2 06 The Abbasid Caliphs - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world
281. 08-20 Feb 9 06 Geoffrey Chaucer - the first Great English Poet
282. 08-21 Feb 16 06 Human Evolution - from early hominids to Homo sapiens
283. 08-22 Feb 23 06 Catherine the Great - Enlightened Despot Eighteenth Century Russia
284. 08-23 Mar 2 06 Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions
285. 08-24 Mar 9 06 Negative Numbers - how they spread across civilisations
286. 08-25 Mar 16 06 Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel
287. 08-26 Mar 23 06 The Royal Society - the first club for experimental science
288. 08-27 Mar 30 06 The Carolingian Renaissance - revival early medieval western Europe
289. 08-28 Apr 6 06 Goethe - formation of a German cultural icon
290. 08-29 Apr 13 06 The Oxford Movement - Anglicans & Catholics in the 19th century
291. 08-30 Apr 20 06 The Search for immunisation - and the battle against smallpox
292. 08-31 Apr 27 06 The Great Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world
293. 08-32 May 4 06 Astronomy & Empire - link between colonial expansion & sci discovery
294. 08-33 May 11 06 Faeries - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans
295. 08-34 May 18 06 John Stuart Mill - one of most influential philosophers of 19th century
296. 08-35 May 25 06 Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition
297. 08-36 Jun 1 06 The Heart - its anatomical and cultural history
298. 08-37 Jun 8 06 Uncle Tom's Cabin - the novel that started the American Civil War
299. 08-38 Jun 15 06 Carbon - the basis of life
300. 08-39 Jun 22 06 Spanish Inquisition - one of most barbaric episodes European history
301. 08-40 Jun 29 06 "Galaxies - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter"
302. 08-41 Jul 6 06 Pastoral literature - the romantic idealisation of the countryside
303. 08-42 Jul 13 06 Greek Comedy - sing as you revel and rout
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9th series 2006 - 45 minutes
304. 09-01 Sep 28 06 Alexander von Humboldt - remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist
305. 09-02 Oct 5 06 Averroes - the battle between faith and reason
306. 09-03 Oct 12 06 The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church
307. 09-04 Oct 19 06 The Needham Question - did China lay foundations modern science?
308. 09-05 Oct 26 06 The Encyclopedie - the great project of the Enlightenment
309. 09-06 Nov 2 06 The Poincare Conjecture - how C19 math'n changed think shape univ
310. 09-07 Nov 9 06 Alexander Pope - "short is my date, but deathless my renown"
311. 09-08 Nov 16 06 The Peasants' Revolt - a lasting legacy for popular uprising?
312. 09-09 Nov 23 06 Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it?
313. 09-10 Nov 30 06 The Speed of Light - a cosmic speed limit?
314. 09-11 Dec 7 06 Anarchism - a question of authority?
315. 09-12 Dec 14 06 Indian Maths - laying foundations modern numerals & zero as number
316. 09-13 Dec 21 06 Hell - its representation through the ages
317. 09-14 Dec 28 06 The Siege of Constantinople - end of 1000 years of Byzantine Empire
318. 09-15 Jan 4 07 Borges - the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer
319. 09-16 Jan 11 07 Mars - the search for life on the Red Planet
320. 09-17 Jan 18 07 The Jesuits - the school masters of Europe
321. 09-18 Jan 25 07 Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments
322. 09-19 Feb 1 07 Genghis Khan - founder of world's largest ever land-based empires
323. 09-20 Feb 8 07 Karl Popper - his ideas challenged our approach philosophy of science
324. 09-21 Feb 15 07 Heart of Darkness - one of the most influential novels of 20th century
325. 09-22 Feb 22 07 William Wilberforce - the man and his legacy
326. 09-23 Mar 1 07 The History of Optics - telescopes to microscopes, new way see world
327. 09-24 Mar 8 07 Microbiology - the story of the invisible masters of the universe
328. 09-25 Mar 15 07 Epistolary Literature - great novels of fictional letters
329. 09-26 Mar 22 07 Bismarck - the Iron Chancellor
330. 09-27 Mar 29 07 Anaesthetics - from ether frolics to pain-free surgery
331. 09-28 Apr 5 07 St Hilda - the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby
332. 09-29 Apr 12 07 Opium Wars - conflict affect British-Chinese relations for generations
333. 09-30 Apr 19 07 Symmetry - the pattern at the heart of our physical world
334. 09-31 Apr 26 07 Greek and Roman Love Poetry - pursuit Beloved Sappho to Catullus
335. 09-32 May 3 07 Spinoza - believed that God and Nature were the same thing
336. 09-33 May 10 07 Victorian Pessimism - fear and loathing in the late 19th century
337. 09-34 May 17 07 Gravitational Waves - a new window on the universe
338. 09-35 May 24 07 The Siege of Orleans - did Joan of Arc really rescue France?
339. 09-36 May 31 07 Ockham's Razor - cutting medieval philosophy down to size
340. 09-37 Jun 7 07 Siegfried Sassoon - the poet who survived
341. 09-38 Jun 14 07 Renaissance Astrology - "stars' tennis balls, struck please them"
342. 09-39 Jun 21 07 Common Sense Philosophy - "no statement so absurd no phil make"
343. 09-40 Jun 28 07 The Permian-Triassic Boundary - when 95% of life was killed off
344. 09-41 Jul 5 07 The Pilgrim Fathers - the original American dream
345. 09-42 Jul 12 07 The Trial of Madame Bovary - "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!"
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10th series 2007 - 45 minutes
346. 10-01 Sep 27 07 Socrates - the man and the myth
347. 10-02 Oct 4 07 Antimatter - where has it all gone?
348. 10-03 Oct 11 07 The Divine Right of Kings - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"
349. 10-04 Oct 18 07 The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling
350. 10-05 Oct 25 07 Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain
351. 10-06 Nov 1 07 Guilt - what is it good for?
352. 10-07 Nov 8 07 Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
353. 10-08 Nov 15 07 Discovery of Oxygen - feuds & revolutions at birth of modern chemistry
354. 10-09 Nov 22 07 The Prelude - the greatest poem in the English language?
355. 10-10 Nov 29 07 The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
356. 10-11 Dec 6 07 Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life
357. 10-12 Dec 13 07 The Sassanian Empire - in the shadow of ancient Persia
358. 10-13 Dec 20 07 Four Humours - yellow bile,blood,choler,phlegm in orig theory everyth'g
359. 10-14 Dec 27 07 The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
360. 10-15 Jan 3 08 Albert Camus - rebel with a cause
361. 10-16 Jan 10 08 "Charge of Light Brigade - ""all in valley of death rode the six hundred"""
362. 10-17 Jan 17 08 The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal
363. 10-18 Jan 24 08 Plate Tectonics - the day the earth moved
364. 10-19 Jan 31 08 The Court of Rudolf II - the lost powerhouse of renaissance ideas
365. 10-20 Feb 7 08 The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau & origins of society
366. 10-21 Feb 14 08 The Statue of Liberty - From France with love . . .
367. 10-22 Feb 21 08 The Multiverse - the universe is not enough
368. 10-23 Feb 28 08 King Lear - Shakespeare's finest fairy tale
369. 10-24 Mar 6 08 Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age
370. 10-25 Mar 13 08 The Greek Myths - soap opera of the gods
371. 10-26 Mar 20 08 Søren Kierkegaard - fear and trembling in Copenhagen
372. 10-27 Mar 21 08 The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins
373. 10-28 Apr 3 08 Newton's Laws of Motion - they put a man on the moon
374. 10-29 Apr 10 08 The Norman Yoke - 1067 and all that
375. 10-30 Apr 17 08 Yeats and Irish Politics - "a terrible beauty is born"
376. 10-31 Apr 24 08 Materialism - are we living in a material world?
377. 10-32 May 1 08 The Enclosures - dividing the country
378. 10-33 May 8 08 The Brain: A History - food for thought
379. 10-34 May 15 08 The Library at Nineveh - treasure trove of Assyrian ideas
380. 10-35 May 22 08 The Black Death - a plague on all our houses
381. 10-36 May 29 08 Probability - heads or tails?
382. 10-37 Jun 5 08 Trofim Lysenko - Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist
383. 10-38 Jun 12 08 The Riddle of the Sands - how Britain learned to fear the Germans
384. 10-39 Jun 19 08 The Music of the Spheres - a dose of heavenly harmonies
385. 10-40 Jun 26 08 The Arab Conquests - the 7th century new world order
386. 10-41 Jul 3 08 The Metaphysical Poets - sex and death in the seventeenth century
387. 10-42 Jul 10 08 Tacitus - the decadence of Rome
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11th series 2008 - 45 minutes
388. 11-01 Sep 25 08 Miracles - will they never cease?
389. 11-02 Oct 2 08 The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic
390. 11-03 Oct 9 08 Godel's Incompleteness Theorems - the dirty secrets of maths
391. 11-04 Oct 16 08 Vitalism - the spark of life
392. 11-05 Oct 23 08 Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back
393. 11-06 Oct 30 08 Simon Bolivar - the liberator of Spanish America
394. 11-07 Nov 6 08 Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society?
395. 11-08 Nov 13 08 Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind?
396. 11-09 Nov 20 08 The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe
397. 11-10 Nov 27 08 The Great Reform Act - but was it great?
398. 11-11 Dec 4 08 Heat: A History - from fire to thermodynamics
399. 11-12 Dec 11 08 The Great Fire of London - London's burning, fetch the engines ...
400. 11-13 Dec 18 08 The Physics of Time - does time even exist?
401. 11-14 Jan 1 09 The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius
402. 11-15 Jan 5 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 1 of 4: Mon 5 Jan '09)
403. 11-16 Jan 6 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 2 of 4: Tue 6 Jan '09)
404. 11-17 Jan 7 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 3 of 4: Wed 7 Jan '09)
405. 11-18 Jan 8 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 4 of 4: Thu 8 Jan '09)
406. 11-19 Jan 15 09 Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness
407. 11-20 Jan 22 09 A History of History - how the writing of history has evolved
408. 11-21 Jan 29 09 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - C18 satire gets close to bone
409. 11-22 Feb 5 09 The Brothers Grimm - fairy tales, Grimm, but not as we know them
410. 11-23 Feb 12 09 The Destruction of Carthage - "Delenda Carthago!"
411. 11-24 Feb 19 09 The Observatory at Jaipur - Indian astronomy on cusp of colonialism
412. 11-25 Feb 26 09 The Waste Land & Modernity - "I will show you fear in handful of dust"
413. 11-26 Mar 5 09 Measurement Problem in Physics - man not the measure of all things
414. 11-27 Mar 12 09 The Library of Alexandria - of all the books in all the world
415. 11-28 Mar 19 09 The Boxer Rebellion - "Kill all Foreigners!"
416. 11-29 Mar 26 09 The School of Athens - picturing Greece in Renaissance minds
417. 11-30 Apr 2 09 Baconian Science - Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science
418. 11-31 Apr 9 09 Brave New World - would Soma, free love and the feelies be so bad?
419. 11-32 Apr 16 09 Suffragism - the long march towards votes for women
420. 11-33 Apr 23 09 Building of St Petersburg - "window by which Russia looks on Europe"
421. 11-34 Apr 30 09 The Vacuum of Space - a programme about nothing?
422. 11-35 May 7 09 Magna Carta - foundation of law or rich man's charter?
423. 11-36 May 14 09 The Siege of Vienna - a clash of civilisations?
424. 11-37 May 21 09 The Whale - a history
245. 11-38 May 28 09 St Paul - the first Christian
426. 11-39 Jun 4 09 The Trial of Charles I - the original courtroom drama
427. 11-40 Jun 11 09 The Augustan Age - art and propaganda at birth of the Roman Empire
428. 11-41 Jun 18 09 Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy - theatre of blood
429. 11-42 Jun 25 09 The Sunni-Shia Split - after Muhammad
430. 11-43 Jul 2 09 Logical Positivism - or is it?
431. 11-44 Jul 9 09 The Ediacara Biota - the first animals?
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12th series 2009 - 45 minutes
432. 12-01 Sep 17 09 St Thomas Aquinas
433. 12-02 Sep 24 09 Calculus
434. 12-03 Oct 1 09 Akhenaten
435. 12-04 Oct 8 09 The Dreyfus Affair
436. 12-05 Oct 15 09 The Death of Elizabeth I
437. 12-06 Oct 22 09 The Geological Formation of Britain
438. 12-07 Oct 29 09 Schopenhauer
439. 12-08 Nov 5 09 The Siege of Munster
440. 12-09 Nov 12 09 Radiation
441. 12-10 Nov 19 09 Sparta
442. 12-11 Nov 26 09 Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
443. 12-12 Dec 3 09 The Silk Road
444. 12-13 Dec 10 09 Pythagoras
445. 12-14 Dec 24 09 The Samurai
446. 12-15 Dec 31 09 Mary Wollstonecraft
447. 12-16 Jan 4 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 1 of 4: Mon 4 Jan '10)
448. 12-17 Jan 5 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 2 of 4: Tue 5 Jan '10)
449. 12-18 Jan 6 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 3 of 4: Wed 6 Jan '10)
450. 12-19 Jan 7 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 4 of 4: Thu 7 Jan '10)
451. 12-20 Jan 14 10 The Frankfurt School
452. 12-21 Jan 21 10 The Glencoe Massacre
453. 12-22 Jan 28 10 Silas Marner
454. 12-23 Feb 4 10 Ibn Khaldun
455. 12-24 Feb 11 10 Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
456. 12-25 Feb 18 10 The Indian Mutiny
457. 12-26 Feb 25 10 Calvinism
458. 12-27 Mar 4 10 The Infant Brain
459. 12-28 Mar 11 10 Boudica
460. 12-29 Mar 18 10 Munch and The Scream
461. 12-30 Mar 25 10 The City - a history, part 1
462. 12-31 Apr 1 10 The City - a history, part 2
463. 12-32 Apr 8 10 William Hazlitt
464. 12-33 Apr 15 10 The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
465. 12-34 Apr 22 10 Roman Satire
466. 12-35 Apr 29 10 The Great Wall of China
467. 12-36 May 6 10 The Cool Universe
468. 12-37 May 13 10 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
469. 12-38 May 20 10 The Cavendish Family in Science
470. 12-39 May 27 10 Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
471. 12-40 Jun 3 10 Edmumd Burke
472. 12-41 Jun 10 10 al-Buruni
473. 12-42 Jun 17 10 The Neanderthals
474. 12-43 Jun 24 10 Antarctica
475. 12-44 Jul 1 10 Athelstan
476. 12-45 Jul 8 10 Pliny's Natural History
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13th series 2010 - 45 minutes
477. 13-01 Sep 23 10 Imaginary Numbers
478. 13-02 Sep 30 10 The Delphic Oracle
479. 13-03 Oct 7 10 The Spanish Armada
480. 13-04 Oct 14 10 Sturm und Drang
481. 13-05 Oct 21 10 Logic
482. 13-06 Oct 28 10 The Unicorn
483. 13-07 Nov 4 10 Women and Enlightenment Science
484. 13-08 Nov 11 10 The Volga Vikings
485. 13-09 Nov 18 10 Foxe's Book of Martyrs
486. 13-10 Nov 25 10 History of Metaphor
487. 13-11 Dec 2 10 Cleopatra
488. 13-12 Dec 9 10 Edison
489. 13-13 Dec 16 10 Daoism
490. 13-14 Dec 23 10 The Industrial Revolution
491. 13-15 Dec 30 10 Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
492. 13-16 Jan 6 11 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
493. 13-17 Jan 13 11 Random and Pseudorandom
494. 13-18 Jan 20 11 The Mexican Revolution
495. 13-19 Jan 27 11 Aristotle's Poetics
496. 13-20 Feb 3 11 The Battle of Bannockburn
497. 13-21 Feb 10 11 The Nervous System
498. 13-22 Feb 17 11 Maimonides
499. 13-23 Feb 24 11 The Taiping Revolution
500. 13-24 Mar 3 11 The Age of the Universe
501. 13-25 Mar 10 11 Free Will
502. 13-26 Mar 17 11 The Medieval University
503. 13-27 Mar 24 11 The Dawn of the Iron Age
504. 13-28 Mar 31 11 The Bhagavad Gita
505. 13-29 Apr 7 11 Octavia Hill
506. 13-30 Apr 14 11 Neutrino
507. 13-31 Apr 21 11 The Pelagian Controversy
508. 13-32 Apr 28 11 Cogito Ergo Sum
509. 13-33 May 5 11 The Origins of Islamic Law
510. 13-34 May 12 11 The Anatomy of Melancholy
511. 13-35 May 19 11 Custer's Last Stand
512. 13-36 May 26 11 Xenophon
513. 13-37 Jun 2 11 The Battle of Stamford Bridge
514. 13-38 Jun 9 11 The Origins of Infectious Diseases
515. 13-39 Jun 16 11 John Wycliffe and the Lollards
516. 13-40 Jun 23 11 Malthusianism
517. 13-41 Jun 30 11 Tennyson's In Memoriam
518. 13-42 Jul 7 11 The Minoan Civilisation
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