List of In Our Time programmes

In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Since 2011, all episodes have been available to download as individual podcasts.

Programmes

1998–1999

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
15 October 1998	War in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
22 October 1998	Politics in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
29 October 1998	Science's Revelations	Template:Indented plainlist
5 November 1998	Science in the 20th century	Template:Indented plainlist
12 November 1998	The City in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
19 November 1998	The Brain and Consciousness	Template:Indented plainlist
26 November 1998	Work in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
3 December 1998	History's relevance in the 20th century	Template:Indented plainlist
10 December 1998	Cultural rights in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
17 December 1998	The American Century	Template:Indented plainlist
24 December 1998	Neuroscience in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
31 December 1998	The British Empire's Legacy	Template:Indented plainlist
7 January 1999	Feminism	Template:Indented plainlist
14 January 1999	Genetic Engineering	Template:Indented plainlist
21 January 1999	Modern Culture	Template:Indented plainlist
28 January 1999	Ageing	Template:Indented plainlist
4 February 1999	Psychoanalysis and its Legacy	Template:Indented plainlist
11 February 1999	Language and the Mind	Template:Indented plainlist
18 February 1999	Space in Religion and Science	Template:Indented plainlist
25 February 1999	The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
4 March 1999	Shakespeare and Literary Criticism	Template:Indented plainlist
11 March 1999	History as Science	Template:Indented plainlist
18 March 1999	Animal Experiments and Rights	Template:Indented plainlist
25 March 1999	Architecture in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
1 April 1999	Good and Evil	Template:Indented plainlist
8 April 1999	Writing and Political Oppression	Template:Indented plainlist
15 April 1999	Evolution	Template:Indented plainlist
22 April 1999	Fundamentalism	Template:Indented plainlist
29 April 1999	Artificial Intelligence	Template:Indented plainlist
6 May 1999	Mathematics	Template:Indented plainlist
13 May 1999	Multiculturalism	Template:Indented plainlist
20 May 1999	The Universe's Origins	Template:Indented plainlist
27 May 1999	Memory and Culture	Template:Indented plainlist
3 June 1999	Just War	Template:Indented plainlist
10 June 1999	The Monarchy	Template:Indented plainlist
17 June 1999	The Great Disruption	Template:Indented plainlist
24 June 1999	Capitalism	Template:Indented plainlist
1 July 1999	Intelligence	Template:Indented plainlist
8 July 1999	Africa	Template:Indented plainlist
15 July 1999	Truth, Lies and fiction	Template:Indented plainlist
22 July 1999	Pain	Template:Indented plainlist

1999–2000

From 6 April 2000, with the discussion on "The Natural Order", the programme moved from 30 minutes to a 45-minute format.

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
23 September 1999	Genetic Determinism	Template:Indented plainlist
30 September 1999	Maths and Storytelling	Template:Indented plainlist
7 October 1999	Utopia	Template:Indented plainlist
14 October 1999	The Nation State	Template:Indented plainlist
21 October 1999	The Individual	Template:Indented plainlist
28 October 1999	Atrocity in the 20th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
4 November 1999	Education	Template:Indented plainlist
11 November 1999	The Novel	Template:Indented plainlist
18 November 1999	Progress	Template:Indented plainlist
25 November 1999	Consciousness	Template:Indented plainlist
2 December 1999	Tragedy	Template:Indented plainlist
9 December 1999	Childhood	Template:Indented plainlist
16 December 1999	Medical Ethics	Template:Indented plainlist
23 December 1999	Prayer	Template:Indented plainlist
30 December 1999	Time	Template:Indented plainlist
6 January 2000	Climate change	Template:Indented plainlist
13 January 2000	Information Technology	Template:Indented plainlist
20 January 2000	Masculinity in Literature	Template:Indented plainlist
27 January 2000	Economic Rights	Template:Indented plainlist
3 February 2000	Republicanism	Template:Indented plainlist
10 February 2000	Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment	Template:Indented plainlist
17 February 2000	Reading	Template:Indented plainlist
24 February 2000	Grand Unified Theory	Template:Indented plainlist
2 March 2000	Metamorphosis	Template:Indented plainlist
9 March 2000	The Age of Doubt	Template:Indented plainlist
16 March 2000	Lenin	Template:Indented plainlist
23 March 2000	Materialism and the Consumer	Template:Indented plainlist
30 March 2000	History and Understanding the Past	Template:Indented plainlist
6 April 2000	The Natural Order	Template:Indented plainlist
13 April 2000	New Wars	Template:Indented plainlist
20 April 2000	Englishness	Template:Indented plainlist
27 April 2000	Human Origins	Template:Indented plainlist
4 May 2000	Death	Template:Indented plainlist
11 May 2000	Shakespeare's Work	Template:Indented plainlist
18 May 2000	The Wars of the Roses	Template:Indented plainlist
25 May 2000	Chemical elements	Template:Indented plainlist
1 June 2000	The American Ideal	Template:Indented plainlist
8 June 2000	The Renaissance	Template:Indented plainlist
15 June 2000	Inspiration and Genius	Template:Indented plainlist
22 June 2000	Biography	Template:Indented plainlist
29 June 2000	Imagination and Consciousness	Template:Indented plainlist

2000–2001

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
28 September 2000	London	Template:Indented plainlist
5 October 2000	Hitler in History	Template:Indented plainlist
12 October 2000	The Romantics	Template:Indented plainlist
19 October 2000	Laws of Nature	Template:Indented plainlist
26 October 2000	The Tudor State	Template:Indented plainlist
2 November 2000	Evolutionary Psychology	Template:Indented plainlist
9 November 2000	Psychoanalysis and Literature	Template:Indented plainlist
16 November 2000	Nihilism	Template:Indented plainlist
4 January 2001	Gothic	Template:Indented plainlist
11 January 2001	Mathematics and Platonism	Template:Indented plainlist
18 January 2001	The Enlightenment in Britain	Template:Indented plainlist
25 January 2001	Science and Religion	Template:Indented plainlist
1 February 2001	Imperial Science	Template:Indented plainlist
8 February 2001	Humanism	Template:Indented plainlist
15 February 2001	The Restoration	Template:Indented plainlist
22 February 2001	Quantum Gravity	Template:Indented plainlist
1 March 2001	Money	Template:Indented plainlist
15 March 2001	Shakespeare's Life	Template:Indented plainlist
22 March 2001	Fossils	Template:Indented plainlist
29 March 2001	The Philosophy of Love	Template:Indented plainlist
5 April 2001	The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century	Template:Indented plainlist
12 April 2001	Black Holes	Template:Indented plainlist
19 April 2001	The Glorious Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
26 April 2001	Literary Modernism	Template:Indented plainlist
3 May 2001	Evil	Template:Indented plainlist
14 June 2001	The French Revolution's Legacy	Template:Indented plainlist
21 June 2001	The Sonnet	Template:Indented plainlist
28 June 2001	Existentialism	Template:Indented plainlist
5 July 2001	The Earth's Origins	Template:Indented plainlist
12 July 2001	Dickens	Template:Indented plainlist
19 July 2001	Byzantium	Template:Indented plainlist

2001–2002

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
18 October 2001	Democracy	Template:Indented plainlist
25 October 2001	Napoleon and Wellington	Template:Indented plainlist
1 November 2001	Confucius	Template:Indented plainlist
8 November 2001	The British Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
15 November 2001	Surrealism	Template:Indented plainlist
22 November 2001	Oceanography	Template:Indented plainlist
29 November 2001	Third Crusade	Template:Indented plainlist
6 December 2001	Oscar Wilde	Template:Indented plainlist
13 December 2001	Genetics	Template:Indented plainlist
20 December 2001	Rome and European Civilization	Template:Indented plainlist
27 December 2001	Food	Template:Indented plainlist
3 January 2002	Sensibility	Template:Indented plainlist
10 January 2002	Nuclear Physics	Template:Indented plainlist
17 January 2002	Catharism	Template:Indented plainlist
24 January 2002	Happiness	Template:Indented plainlist
31 January 2002	Yeats and Mysticism	Template:Indented plainlist
7 February 2002	The Universe's Shape	Template:Indented plainlist
14 February 2002	Anatomy	Template:Indented plainlist
21 February 2002	The Celts	Template:Indented plainlist
28 February 2002	Virtue	Template:Indented plainlist
7 March 2002	Milton	Template:Indented plainlist
14 March 2002	The Buddha	Template:Indented plainlist
21 March 2002	Marriage	Template:Indented plainlist
28 March 2002	The Artist	Template:Indented plainlist
4 April 2002	Extra Terrestrials	Template:Indented plainlist
11 April 2002	Bohemia	Template:Indented plainlist
25 April 2002	Tolstoy	Template:Indented plainlist
2 May 2002	The Physics of Reality	Template:Indented plainlist
9 May 2002	The Examined Life	Template:Indented plainlist
16 May 2002	Chaos Theory	Template:Indented plainlist
23 May 2002	Drugs	Template:Indented plainlist
30 May 2002	The Grand Tour	Template:Indented plainlist
6 June 2002	The Soul	Template:Indented plainlist
13 June 2002	The American West	Template:Indented plainlist
20 June 2002	Wagner	Template:Indented plainlist
27 June 2002	Cultural Imperialism	Template:Indented plainlist
4 July 2002	Freedom	Template:Indented plainlist
11 July 2002	Psychoanalysis and democracy	Template:Indented plainlist
18 July 2002	Heritage	Template:Indented plainlist

2002–2003

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
17 October 2002	Slavery and Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
24 October 2002	The Scientist	Template:Indented plainlist
31 October 2002	Architecture and Power	Template:Indented plainlist
7 November 2002	Human Nature	Template:Indented plainlist
14 November 2002	Victorian Realism	Template:Indented plainlist
21 November 2002	Muslim Spain	Template:Indented plainlist
28 November 2002	Imagination	Template:Indented plainlist
5 December 2002	The Enlightenment in Scotland	Template:Indented plainlist
12 December 2002	Man and Disease	Template:Indented plainlist
19 December 2002	The Calendar	Template:Indented plainlist
6 February 2003	The Epic	Template:Indented plainlist
13 February 2003	Chance and Design	Template:Indented plainlist
20 February 2003	The Lindisfarne Gospels	Template:Indented plainlist
27 February 2003	The Aztecs	Template:Indented plainlist
6 March 2003	Meteorology	Template:Indented plainlist
13 March 2003	Redemption	Template:Indented plainlist
20 March 2003	Originality	Template:Indented plainlist
27 Mar 2003	The Life of Stars	Template:Indented plainlist
3 April 2003	The Spanish Civil War	Template:Indented plainlist
17 April 2003	Proust	Template:Indented plainlist
24 April 2003	Youth	Template:Indented plainlist
1 May 2003	Roman Britain	Template:Indented plainlist
8 May 2003	The Jacobite Rebellion	Template:Indented plainlist
15 May 2003	The Holy Grail	Template:Indented plainlist
22 May 2003	Blood	Template:Indented plainlist
29 May 2003	Memory	Template:Indented plainlist
5 June 2003	The Lunar Society	Template:Indented plainlist
12 June 2003	The Art of War	Template:Indented plainlist
19 June 2003	The Aristocracy	Template:Indented plainlist
26 June 2003	The East India Company	Template:Indented plainlist
3 July 2003	Vulcanology	Template:Indented plainlist
10 July 2003	Nature	Template:Indented plainlist
17 July 2003	The Apocalypse	Template:Indented plainlist

2003–2004

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
2 October 2003	Maxwell	Template:Indented plainlist
9 October 2003	Bohemianism	Template:Indented plainlist
16 October 2003	The Schism	Template:Indented plainlist
23 October 2003	Infinity	Template:Indented plainlist
30 October 2003	Robin Hood	Template:Indented plainlist
6 November 2003	Sensation	Template:Indented plainlist
13 November 2003	Duty	Template:Indented plainlist
20 November 2003	Ageing the Earth	Template:Indented plainlist
27 November 2003	St Bartholomew's Day Massacre	Template:Indented plainlist
4 December 2003	Wittgenstein	Template:Indented plainlist
11 December 2003	The Devil	Template:Indented plainlist
18 December 2003	The Alphabet	Template:Indented plainlist
26 December 2003	Lamarck and Natural Selection	Template:Indented plainlist
29 January 2004	Cryptography	Template:Indented plainlist
5 February 2004	Thermopylae	Template:Indented plainlist
12 February 2004	The Sublime	Template:Indented plainlist
19 February 2004	Rutherford	Template:Indented plainlist
26 February 2004	The Mughal Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
4 March 2004	Dreams	Template:Indented plainlist
11 March 2004	The Norse Gods	Template:Indented plainlist
25 March 2004	Theories of Everything	Template:Indented plainlist
1 April 2004	China's Warring States period	Template:Indented plainlist
8 April 2004	The Fall	Template:Indented plainlist
15 April 2004	The Later Romantics	Template:Indented plainlist
22 April 2004	Hysteria	Template:Indented plainlist
29 April 2004	Tea	Template:Indented plainlist
6 May 2004	Heroism	Template:Indented plainlist
13 May 2004	Zero	Template:Indented plainlist
20 May 2004	Toleration	Template:Indented plainlist
27 May 2004	The Planets	Template:Indented plainlist
3 June 2004	Babylon	Template:Indented plainlist
10 June 2004	Empiricism	Template:Indented plainlist
17 June 2004	Renaissance Magic	Template:Indented plainlist
24 June 2004	Washington and the American Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist

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 result of the vote was:

1. Karl Marx (with 27.9% of the votes)
2. David Hume (12.7%)
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein (6.8%)
4. Friedrich Nietzsche (6.5%)
5. Plato (5.6%)
6. Immanuel Kant (5.6%)
7. Thomas Aquinas (4.8%)
8. Socrates (4.8%)
9. Aristotle (4.5%)
10. Karl Popper (4.2%)

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
2 September 2004	Pi	Template:Indented plainlist
9 September 2004	The Odyssey	Template:Indented plainlist
16 September 2004	Agincourt	Template:Indented plainlist
23 September 2004	The Origins of Life	Template:Indented plainlist
30 September 2004	Politeness	Template:Indented plainlist
7 October 2004	Sartre	Template:Indented plainlist
14 October 2004	The Han Synthesis	Template:Indented plainlist
21 October 2004	Witchcraft	Template:Indented plainlist
28 October 2004	Rhetoric	Template:Indented plainlist
4 November 2004	Electrickery	Template:Indented plainlist
11 November 2004	Zoroastrianism	Template:Indented plainlist
18 November 2004	Higgs Boson	Template:Indented plainlist
25 November 2004	The Venerable Bede	Template:Indented plainlist
2 December 2004	Jung	Template:Indented plainlist
9 December 2004	Machiavelli and the Italian City States	Template:Indented plainlist
16 December 2004	The Second Law of Thermodynamics	Template:Indented plainlist
23 December 2004	Faust	Template:Indented plainlist
30 December 2004	The Roman Republic	Template:Indented plainlist
6 January 2005	Tsar Alexander II's assassination	Template:Indented plainlist
13 January 2005	The Mind/Body Problem	Template:Indented plainlist
17 February 2005	The Cambrian Period	Template:Indented plainlist
24 February 2005	Alchemy	Template:Indented plainlist
3 March 2005	Stoicism	Template:Indented plainlist
10 March 2005	Modernist Utopias	Template:Indented plainlist
17 March 2005	Dark Energy	Template:Indented plainlist
24 March 2005	Angels	Template:Indented plainlist
31 March 2005	John Ruskin	Template:Indented plainlist
7 April 2005	Alfred and the Battle of Edington	Template:Indented plainlist
14 April 2005	Archaeology and Imperialism	Template:Indented plainlist
21 April 2005	The Aeneid	Template:Indented plainlist
28 April 2005	Perception and the Senses	Template:Indented plainlist
5 May 2005	Abelard and Heloise	Template:Indented plainlist
19 May 2005	Beauty	Template:Indented plainlist
26 May 2005	The French Revolution's Reign of Terror	Template:Indented plainlist
2 June 2005	Renaissance Maths	Template:Indented plainlist
9 June 2005	The Scriblerus Club	Template:Indented plainlist
16 June 2005	Paganism in the Renaissance	Template:Indented plainlist
23 June 2005	The KT Boundary	Template:Indented plainlist
30 June 2005	Merlin	Template:Indented plainlist
7 July 2005	Marlowe	Template:Indented plainlist
14 July 2005	Marx	Template:Indented plainlist

2005–2006

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
29 September 2005	Magnetism	Template:Indented plainlist
6 October 2005	The Field of the Cloth of Gold	Template:Indented plainlist
13 October 2005	Mammals	Template:Indented plainlist
20 October 2005	Cynicism	Template:Indented plainlist
27 October 2005	Johnson	Template:Indented plainlist
3 November 2005	Asteroids	Template:Indented plainlist
10 November 2005	Greyfriars and Blackfriars	Template:Indented plainlist
17 November 2005	Pragmatism	Template:Indented plainlist
24 November 2005	The Graviton	Template:Indented plainlist
1 December 2005	Hobbes	Template:Indented plainlist
8 December 2005	Artificial Intelligence	Template:Indented plainlist
15 December 2005	The Peterloo Massacre	Template:Indented plainlist
22 December 2005	Heaven	Template:Indented plainlist
29 December 2005	The Oresteia	Template:Indented plainlist
5 January 2006	The Oath	Template:Indented plainlist
12 January 2006	Prime Numbers	Template:Indented plainlist
19 January 2006	Relativism	Template:Indented plainlist
26 January 2006	Seventeenth Century Print Culture	Template:Indented plainlist
2 February 2006	The Abbasid Caliphs	Template:Indented plainlist
9 February 2006	Chaucer	Template:Indented plainlist
16 February 2006	Human Evolution	Template:Indented plainlist
23 February 2006	Catherine the Great	Template:Indented plainlist
2 March 2006	Friendship	Template:Indented plainlist
9 March 2006	Negative numbers	Template:Indented plainlist
16 March 2006	Don Quixote	Template:Indented plainlist
23 March 2006	The Royal Society	Template:Indented plainlist
30 March 2006	The Carolingian Renaissance	Template:Indented plainlist
6 April 2006	Goethe	Template:Indented plainlist
13 April 2006	The Oxford Movement	Template:Indented plainlist
20 April 2006	Immunisation	Template:Indented plainlist
27 April 2006	The Great Exhibition of 1851	Template:Indented plainlist
4 May 2006	Astronomy and Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
11 May 2006	Fairies	Template:Indented plainlist
18 May 2006	Mill	Template:Indented plainlist
25 May 2006	Mathematics and Music	Template:Indented plainlist
1 June 2006	The Heart	Template:Indented plainlist
8 June 2006	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Template:Indented plainlist
15 June 2006	Carbon	Template:Indented plainlist
22 June 2006	The Spanish Inquisition	Template:Indented plainlist
29 June 2006	Galaxies	Template:Indented plainlist
6 July 2006	Pastoral Literature	Template:Indented plainlist
13 July 2006	Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre	Template:Indented plainlist

2006–2007

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
28 September 2006	Humboldt	Template:Indented plainlist
5 October 2006	Averroes	Template:Indented plainlist
12 October 2006	The Diet of Worms	Template:Indented plainlist
19 October 2006	The Needham Question	Template:Indented plainlist
26 October 2006	The Encyclopédie	Template:Indented plainlist
2 November 2006	The Poincaré conjecture	Template:Indented plainlist
9 November 2006	Pope	Template:Indented plainlist
16 November 2006	The Peasants' Revolt	Template:Indented plainlist
23 November 2006	Altruism	Template:Indented plainlist
30 November 2006	The Speed of Light	Template:Indented plainlist
7 December 2006	Anarchism	Template:Indented plainlist
14 December 2006	Indian Mathematics	Template:Indented plainlist
21 December 2006	Hell	Template:Indented plainlist
28 December 2006	Constantinople Siege and Fall	Template:Indented plainlist
4 January 2007	Jorge Luis Borges	Template:Indented plainlist
11 January 2007	Mars	Template:Indented plainlist
18 January 2007	The Jesuits	Template:Indented plainlist
25 January 2007	Archimedes	Template:Indented plainlist
1 February 2007	Genghis Khan	Template:Indented plainlist
8 February 2007	Popper	Template:Indented plainlist
15 February 2007	Heart of Darkness	Template:Indented plainlist
22 February 2007	Wilberforce	This programme was a documentary rather than a discussion. The programme can be streamed rather than downloaded.
1 March 2007	Optics	Template:Indented plainlist
8 March 2007	Microbiology	Template:Indented plainlist
15 March 2007	Epistolary Literature	Template:Indented plainlist
22 March 2007	Bismarck	Template:Indented plainlist
29 March 2007	Anaesthetics	Template:Indented plainlist
5 April 2007	St Hilda	Template:Indented plainlist
12 April 2007	The Opium Wars	Template:Indented plainlist
19 April 2007	Symmetry	Template:Indented plainlist
26 April 2007	Greek and Roman Love Poetry	Template:Indented plainlist
3 May 2007	Spinoza	Template:Indented plainlist
10 May 2007	Victorian Pessimism	Template:Indented plainlist
17 May 2007	Gravitational Waves	Template:Indented plainlist
24 May 2007	The Siege of Orléans	Template:Indented plainlist
31 May 2007	Ockham's Razor	Template:Indented plainlist
7 June 2007	Siegfried Sassoon	Template:Indented plainlist
14 June 2007	Renaissance Astrology	Template:Indented plainlist
21 June 2007	Common Sense Philosophy	Template:Indented plainlist
28 June 2007	The Permian-Triassic Boundary	Template:Indented plainlist
5 July 2007	The Pilgrim Fathers	Template:Indented plainlist
12 July 2007	Madame Bovary	Template:Indented plainlist

2007–2008

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
27 September 2007	Socrates	Template:Indented plainlist
4 October 2007	Antimatter	Template:Indented plainlist
11 October 2007	The Divine Right of Kings	Template:Indented plainlist
18 October 2007	The Arabian Nights	Template:Indented plainlist
25 October 2007	Taste	Template:Indented plainlist
1 November 2007	Guilt	Template:Indented plainlist
8 November 2007	Avicenna	Template:Indented plainlist
15 November 2007	Oxygen	Template:Indented plainlist
22 November 2007	The Prelude	Template:Indented plainlist
29 November 2007	The Fibonacci Sequence	Template:Indented plainlist
6 December 2007	Genetic Mutation	Template:Indented plainlist
13 December 2007	The Sassanid Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
20 December 2007	The Four Humours	Template:Indented plainlist
27 December 2007	The Nicene Creed	Template:Indented plainlist
3 January 2008	Camus	Template:Indented plainlist
10 January 2008	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Template:Indented plainlist
17 January 2008	The Fisher King	Template:Indented plainlist
24 January 2008	Plate Tectonics	Template:Indented plainlist
31 January 2008	Rudolph II	Template:Indented plainlist
7 February 2008	The Social Contract	Template:Indented plainlist
14 February 2008	The Statue of Liberty	Template:Indented plainlist
21 February 2008	The Multiverse	Template:Indented plainlist
28 February 2008	Lear	Template:Indented plainlist
6 March 2008	Ada Lovelace	Template:Indented plainlist
13 March 2008	The Greek Myths	Template:Indented plainlist
20 March 2008	Kierkegaard	Template:Indented plainlist
27 March 2008	The Dissolution of the Monasteries	Template:Indented plainlist
3 April 2008	The Laws of Motion	Template:Indented plainlist
10 April 2008	The Norman Yoke	Template:Indented plainlist
17 April 2008	Yeats and Irish Politics	Template:Indented plainlist
24 April 2008	Materialism	Template:Indented plainlist
1 May 2008	The Enclosures of the 18th Century	Template:Indented plainlist
8 May 2008	The Brain	Template:Indented plainlist
15 May 2008	The Library at Nineveh	Template:Indented plainlist
22 May 2008	The Black Death	Template:Indented plainlist
29 May 2008	Probability	Template:Indented plainlist
5 June 2008	Lysenkoism	Template:Indented plainlist
12 June 2008	The Riddle of the Sands	Template:Indented plainlist
19 June 2008	The Music of the Spheres	Template:Indented plainlist
26 June 2008	The Arab Conquests	Template:Indented plainlist
3 July 2008	The Metaphysical Poets	Template:Indented plainlist
10 July 2008	Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome	Template:Indented plainlist

2008–2009

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
25 September 2008	Miracles	Template:Indented plainlist
2 October 2008	The Translation Movement	Template:Indented plainlist
9 October 2008	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems	Template:Indented plainlist
16 October 2008	Vitalism	Template:Indented plainlist
23 October 2008	Dante's Inferno	Template:Indented plainlist
30 October 2008	Bolivar	Template:Indented plainlist
6 November 2008	Aristotle's Politics	Template:Indented plainlist
13 November 2008	Neuroscience	Template:Indented plainlist
20 November 2008	The Baroque Movement	Template:Indented plainlist
27 November 2008	The Great Reform Act	Template:Indented plainlist
4 December 2008	Heat	Template:Indented plainlist
11 December 2008	The Fire of London	Template:Indented plainlist
18 December 2008	The Physics of Time	Template:Indented plainlist
1 January 2009	The Consolations of Philosophy	Template:Indented plainlist
5 January 2009	Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin	Template:Indented plainlist
6 January 2009	Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle	Template:Indented plainlist
7 January 2009	Darwin: On the Origin of Species	Template:Indented plainlist
8 January 2009	Darwin: Life After Origins	Template:Indented plainlist
15 January 2009	Thoreau and the American Idyll	Template:Indented plainlist
22 January 2009	History of History	Template:Indented plainlist
29 January 2009	Swift's A Modest Proposal	Template:Indented plainlist
5 February 2009	The Brothers Grimm	Template:Indented plainlist
12 February 2009	Carthage's Destruction	Template:Indented plainlist
19 February 2009	The Observatory at Jaipur	Template:Indented plainlist
26 February 2009	The Waste Land and Modernity	Template:Indented plainlist
5 March 2009	The Measurement problem in Physics	Template:Indented plainlist
12 March 2009	The Library of Alexandria	Template:Indented plainlist
19 March 2009	The Boxer Rebellion	Template:Indented plainlist
26 March 2009	The School of Athens	Template:Indented plainlist
2 April 2009	Baconian Science	Template:Indented plainlist
9 April 2009	Aldous Huxley's Brave New World	Template:Indented plainlist
16 April 2009	Suffragism	Template:Indented plainlist
23 April 2009	The Building of St Petersburg	Template:Indented plainlist
30 April 2009	The Vacuum of Space	Template:Indented plainlist
7 May 2009	The Magna Carta	Template:Indented plainlist
14 May 2009	The Siege of Vienna	Template:Indented plainlist
21 May 2009	The Whale - A History	Template:Indented plainlist
28 May 2009	St Paul	Template:Indented plainlist
4 June 2009	The Trial of Charles I	Template:Indented plainlist
11 June 2009	The Augustan Age	Template:Indented plainlist
18 June 2009	Elizabethan Revenge	Template:Indented plainlist
25 June 2009	Sunni and Shia Islam	Template:Indented plainlist
2 July 2009	Logical Positivism	Template:Indented plainlist
9 July 2009	Ediacara Biota	Template:Indented plainlist

2009–2010

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
17 September 2009	St Thomas Aquinas	Template:Indented plainlist
24 September 2009	Calculus	Template:Indented plainlist
1 October 2009	Akhenaten	Template:Indented plainlist
8 October 2009	The Dreyfus Affair	Template:Indented plainlist
15 October 2009	The Death of Elizabeth I	Template:Indented plainlist
22 October 2009	The Geological Formation of Britain	Template:Indented plainlist
29 October 2009	Schopenhauer	Template:Indented plainlist
5 November 2009	The Siege of Munster	Template:Indented plainlist
12 November 2009	Radiation	Template:Indented plainlist
19 November 2009	Sparta	Template:Indented plainlist
26 November 2009	Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Template:Indented plainlist
3 December 2009	The Silk Road	Template:Indented plainlist
10 December 2009	Pythagoras	Template:Indented plainlist
24 December 2009	The Samurai	Template:Indented plainlist
31 December 2009	Mary Wollstonecraft	Template:Indented plainlist
4 January 2010	The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1	Documentary format
5 January 2010	The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2	Documentary format
6 January 2010	The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3	Documentary format
7 January 2010	The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4	Documentary format
14 January 2010	The Frankfurt School	Template:Indented plainlist
21 January 2010	The Glencoe Massacre	Template:Indented plainlist
28 January 2010	Silas Marner	Template:Indented plainlist
4 February 2010	Ibn Khaldun	Template:Indented plainlist
11 February 2010	The Unintended Consequences of Mathematics	Template:Indented plainlist
18 February 2010	The Indian Mutiny	Template:Indented plainlist
25 February 2010	Calvinism	Template:Indented plainlist
4 March 2010	The Infant Brain	Template:Indented plainlist
11 March 2010	Boudica	Template:Indented plainlist
18 March 2010	Munch and The Scream	Template:Indented plainlist
25 March 2010	The City - a history, part 1	Template:Indented plainlist
1 April 2010	The City - a history, part 2	Template:Indented plainlist
8 April 2010	William Hazlitt	Template:Indented plainlist
15 April 2010	The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation	Template:Indented plainlist
22 April 2010	Roman Satire	Template:Indented plainlist
29 April 2010	The Great Wall of China	Template:Indented plainlist
6 May 2010	The Cool Universe	Template:Indented plainlist
13 May 2010	William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience	Template:Indented plainlist
20 May 2010	The Cavendish Family in Science	Template:Indented plainlist
27 May 2010	Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists	Template:Indented plainlist
3 June 2010	Edmund Burke	Template:Indented plainlist
10 June 2010	Al-Biruni	Template:Indented plainlist
17 June 2010	The Neanderthals	Template:Indented plainlist
24 June 2010	Antarctica	Template:Indented plainlist
1 July 2010	Athelstan	Template:Indented plainlist
8 July 2010	Pliny's Natural History	Template:Indented plainlist

2010–2011

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23 September 2010	Imaginary numbers	Template:Indented plainlist
30 September 2010	The Delphic Oracle	Template:Indented plainlist
7 October 2010	The Spanish Armada	Template:Indented plainlist
14 October 2010	Sturm und Drang	Template:Indented plainlist
21 October 2010	Logic	Template:Indented plainlist
28 October 2010	The Unicorn	Template:Indented plainlist
4 November 2010	Women and Enlightenment Science	Template:Indented plainlist
11 November 2010	The Volga Vikings	Template:Indented plainlist
18 November 2010	Foxe's Book of Martyrs	Template:Indented plainlist
25 November 2010	History of Metaphor	Template:Indented plainlist
2 December 2010	Cleopatra	Template:Indented plainlist
9 December 2010	Thomas Edison	Template:Indented plainlist
16 December 2010	Daoism	Template:Indented plainlist
23 December 2010	The Industrial Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
30 December 2010	Consequences of the Industrial Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
6 January 2011	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Template:Indented plainlist
13 January 2011	Random and Pseudorandom	Template:Indented plainlist
20 January 2011	The Mexican Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
27 January 2011	Aristotle's Poetics	Template:Indented plainlist
3 February 2011	The Battle of Bannockburn	Template:Indented plainlist
10 February 2011	The Nervous System	Template:Indented plainlist
17 February 2011	Maimonides	Template:Indented plainlist
24 February 2011	The Taiping Rebellion	Template:Indented plainlist
3 March 2011	The Age of the Universe	Template:Indented plainlist
10 March 2011	Free WillTemplate:Smalldiv	Template:Indented plainlist
17 March 2011	The Medieval University	Template:Indented plainlist
24 March 2011	The Iron Age	Template:Indented plainlist
31 March 2011	The Bhagavad Gita	Template:Indented plainlist
7 April 2011	Octavia Hill	Template:Indented plainlist
14 April 2011	The Neutrino	Template:Indented plainlist
21 April 2011	The Pelagian Controversy	Template:Indented plainlist
28 April 2011	Cogito Ergo Sum	Template:Indented plainlist
5 May 2011	Islamic Law and its Origins	Template:Indented plainlist
12 May 2011	The Anatomy of Melancholy	Template:Indented plainlist
19 May 2011	Custer's Last Stand	Template:Indented plainlist
26 May 2011	Xenophon	Template:Indented plainlist
2 June 2011	The Battle of Stamford Bridge	Template:Indented plainlist
9 June 2011	The Origins of Infectious Disease	Template:Indented plainlist
16 June 2011	Wyclif and the Lollards	Template:Indented plainlist
23 June 2011	Malthusianism	Template:Indented plainlist
30 June 2011	Tennyson's In Memoriam	Template:Indented plainlist
7 July 2011	The Minoan Civilisation	Template:Indented plainlist

2011–2012

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15 September 2011	The Hippocratic Oath	Template:Indented plainlist
22 September 2011	Shinto	Template:Indented plainlist
29 September 2011	The Etruscan Civilisation	Template:Indented plainlist
6 October 2011	David Hume	Template:Indented plainlist
13 October 2011	The Ming Voyages	Template:Indented plainlist
20 October 2011	Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People	Template:Indented plainlist
27 October 2011	The Siege of Tenochtitlan	Template:Indented plainlist
3 November 2011	The Moon	Template:Indented plainlist
10 November 2011	The Continental-Analytic Split	Template:Indented plainlist
17 November 2011	Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy	Template:Indented plainlist
24 November 2011	Judas Maccabeus	Template:Indented plainlist
1 December 2011	Christina Rossetti	Template:Indented plainlist
8 December 2011	Heraclitus	Template:Indented plainlist
15 December 2011	The Concordat of Worms	Template:Indented plainlist
22 December 2011	Robinson Crusoe	Template:Indented plainlist
29 December 2011	Macromolecules	Template:Indented plainlist
2 January 2012	The Written World: Episode 1	Documentary format
3 January 2012	The Written World: Episode 2	Documentary format
4 January 2012	The Written World: Episode 3	Documentary format
5 January 2012	The Written World: Episode 4	Documentary format
6 January 2012	The Written World: Episode 5	Documentary format
12 January 2012	The Safavid dynasty	Template:Indented plainlist
19 January 2012	1848: Year of Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
26 January 2012	The Scientific method	Template:Indented plainlist
2 February 2012	The Kama Sutra	Template:Indented plainlist
9 February 2012	Erasmus	Template:Indented plainlist
16 February 2012	The An Lushan Rebellion	Template:Indented plainlist
23 February 2012	Conductors and Semiconductors	Template:Indented plainlist
1 March 2012	Benjamin Franklin	Template:Indented plainlist
8 March 2012	Lyrical Ballads	Template:Indented plainlist
15 March 2012	Vitruvius and De Architectura	Template:Indented plainlist
22 March 2012	Moses Mendelssohn	Template:Indented plainlist
29 March 2012	The Measurement of Time	Template:Indented plainlist
5 April 2012	George Fox and the Quakers	Template:Indented plainlist
12 April 2012	Early Geology	Template:Indented plainlist
19 April 2012	Neoplatonism	Template:Indented plainlist
26 April 2012	The Battle of Bosworth Field	Template:Indented plainlist
3 May 2012	Voltaire's Candide	Template:Indented plainlist
10 May 2012	Game theory	Template:Indented plainlist
17 May 2012	Clausewitz and On War	Template:Indented plainlist
24 May 2012	Marco Polo	Template:Indented plainlist
31 May 2012	The Trojan War	Template:Indented plainlist
7 June 2012	King Solomon	Template:Indented plainlist
14 June 2012	James Joyce's Ulysses	Template:Indented plainlist
21 June 2012	Annie Besant	Template:Indented plainlist
28 June 2012	Al-Kindi	Template:Indented plainlist
5 July 2012	Scepticism	Template:Indented plainlist
12 July 2012	Hadrian's Wall	Template:Indented plainlist

2012–2013

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13 September 2012	The Cell	Template:Indented plainlist
20 September 2012	The Druids	Template:Indented plainlist
27 September 2012	The Ontological Argument	Template:Indented plainlist
4 October 2012	Gerald of Wales	Template:Indented plainlist
11 October 2012	Hannibal	Template:Indented plainlist
18 October 2012	Caxton and the Printing Press	Template:Indented plainlist
25 October 2012	Fermat's Last Theorem	Template:Indented plainlist
1 November 2012	The Anarchy	Template:Indented plainlist
8 November 2012	The Upanishads	Template:Indented plainlist
15 November 2012	Simone Weil	Template:Indented plainlist
22 November 2012	The Borgias	Template:Indented plainlist
29 November 2012	Crystallography	Template:Indented plainlist
6 December 2012	Bertrand Russell	Template:Indented plainlist
13 December 2012	Shahnameh of Ferdowsi	Template:Indented plainlist
20 December 2012	The South Sea Bubble	Template:Indented plainlist
27 December 2012	The Cult of Mithras	Template:Indented plainlist
10 January 2013	Le Morte d'Arthur	Template:Indented plainlist
17 January 2013	Comets	Template:Indented plainlist
24 January 2013	Romulus and Remus	Template:Indented plainlist
31 January 2013	The War of 1812	Template:Indented plainlist
7 February 2013	Epicureanism	Template:Indented plainlist
14 February 2013	Ice ages	Template:Indented plainlist
21 February 2013	Decline and Fall	Template:Indented plainlist
28 February 2013	Pitt Rivers	Template:Indented plainlist
7 March 2013	Absolute Zero	Template:Indented plainlist
14 March 2013	Chekhov	Template:Indented plainlist
21 March 2013	Alfred Russel Wallace	Template:Indented plainlist
28 March 2013	Water	Template:Indented plainlist
4 April 2013	Japan's Sakoku Period	Template:Indented plainlist
11 April 2013	The Amazons	Template:Indented plainlist
18 April 2013	The Putney Debates	Template:Indented plainlist
25 April 2013	Montaigne	Template:Indented plainlist
2 May 2013	Gnosticism	Template:Indented plainlist
9 May 2013	Icelandic Sagas	Template:Indented plainlist
16 May 2013	Cosmic rays	Template:Indented plainlist
23 May 2013	Lévi-Strauss	Template:Indented plainlist
30 May 2013	Queen Zenobia	Template:Indented plainlist
6 June 2013	Relativity	Template:Indented plainlist
13 June 2013	Prophecy	Template:Indented plainlist
20 June 2013	The Physiocrats	Template:Indented plainlist
27 June 2013	Romance of the Three Kingdoms	Template:Indented plainlist
4 July 2013	The Invention of Radio	Template:Indented plainlist

2013–2014

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19 September 2013	Pascal	Template:Indented plainlist
26 September 2013	The Mamluks	Template:Indented plainlist
3 October 2013	Exoplanets	Template:Indented plainlist
10 October 2013	Galen	Template:Indented plainlist
17 October 2013	The Book of Common Prayer	Template:Indented plainlist
24 October 2013	The Corn Laws	Template:Indented plainlist
31 October 2013	The Berlin Conference	Template:Indented plainlist
7 November 2013	Ordinary language philosophy	Template:Indented plainlist
14 November 2013	The Tempest	Template:Indented plainlist
21 November 2013	Pocahontas	Template:Indented plainlist
28 November 2013	The Microscope	Template:Indented plainlist
5 December 2013	Hindu Ideas of Creation	Template:Indented plainlist
12 December 2013	Pliny the Younger	Template:Indented plainlist
19 December 2013	Complexity	Template:Indented plainlist
26 December 2013	The Medici	Template:Indented plainlist
3 January 2014	Plato's Symposium	Template:Indented plainlist
16 January 2014	The Battle of Tours	Template:Indented plainlist
23 January 2014	Sources of Early Chinese History	Template:Indented plainlist
30 January 2014	Catastrophism	Template:Indented plainlist
6 February 2014	The Phoenicians	Template:Indented plainlist
13 February 2014	Chivalry	Template:Indented plainlist
20 February 2014	Social Darwinism	Template:Indented plainlist
27 February 2014	The Eye	Template:Indented plainlist
6 March 2014	Spartacus	Template:Indented plainlist
13 March 2014	The Trinity	Template:Indented plainlist
20 March 2014	Bishop Berkeley	Template:Indented plainlist
27 March 2014	Weber's The Protestant Ethic	Template:Indented plainlist
3 April 2014	States of Matter	Template:Indented plainlist
10 April 2014	Strabo's Geographica	Template:Indented plainlist
17 April 2014	The Domesday Book	Template:Indented plainlist
24 April 2014	Tristram Shandy	Template:Indented plainlist
1 May 2014	The Tale of Sinuhe	Template:Indented plainlist
8 May 2014	The Sino-Japanese War	Template:Indented plainlist
15 May 2014	Photosynthesis	Template:Indented plainlist
22 May 2014	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Template:Indented plainlist
29 May 2014	The Talmud	Template:Indented plainlist
5 June 2014	The Bluestockings	Template:Indented plainlist
12 June 2014	Robert Boyle	Template:Indented plainlist
19 June 2014	The Philosophy of Solitude	Template:Indented plainlist
26 June 2014	Hildegard of Bingen	Template:Indented plainlist
3 July 2014	Mrs Dalloway	Template:Indented plainlist
10 July 2014	The Sun	Template:Indented plainlist

2014–2015

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25 September 2014	e	Template:Indented plainlist
2 October 2014	Julius Caesar	Template:Indented plainlist
9 October 2014	The Battle of Talas	Template:Indented plainlist
16 October 2014	Rudyard Kipling	Template:Indented plainlist
23 October 2014	The Haitian Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
30 October 2014	Nuclear Fusion	Template:Indented plainlist
6 November 2014	Hatshepsut	Template:Indented plainlist
13 November 2014	Brunel	Template:Indented plainlist
20 November 2014	Aesop	Template:Indented plainlist
27 November 2014	Kafka's The Trial	Template:Indented plainlist
4 December 2014	Zen	Template:Indented plainlist
11 December 2014	Behavioural ecology	Template:Indented plainlist
18 December 2014	Truth	Template:Indented plainlist
15 January 2015	Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent	Template:Indented plainlist
22 January 2015	Phenomenology	Template:Indented plainlist
29 January 2015	Thucydides	Template:Indented plainlist
5 February 2015	Ashoka the Great	Template:Indented plainlist
12 February 2015	The Photon	Template:Indented plainlist
19 February 2015	The Wealth of Nations	Template:Indented plainlist
26 February 2015	The Eunuch	Template:Indented plainlist
5 March 2015	Beowulf	Template:Indented plainlist
12 March 2015	Dark matter	Template:Indented plainlist
19 March 2015	Al-Ghazali	Template:Indented plainlist
26 March 2015	The Curies	Template:Indented plainlist
2 April 2015	The California Gold Rush	Template:Indented plainlist
9 April 2015	Sappho	Template:Indented plainlist
16 April 2015	Matteo Ricci and the Ming dynasty	Template:Indented plainlist
23 April 2015	Fanny Burney	Template:Indented plainlist
30 April 2015	The Earth's core	Template:Indented plainlist
7 May 2015	Tagore	Template:Indented plainlist
14 May 2015	The Lancashire Cotton Famine	Template:Indented plainlist
21 May 2015	Josephus	Template:Indented plainlist
28 May 2015	The Science of Glass	Template:Indented plainlist
4 June 2015	Prester John	Template:Indented plainlist
11 June 2015	Utilitarianism	Template:Indented plainlist
18 June 2015	Jane Eyre	Template:Indented plainlist
25 June 2015	Extremophiles	Template:Indented plainlist
2 July 2015	Frederick the Great	Template:Indented plainlist
9 July 2015	Frida Kahlo	Template:Indented plainlist

2015–2016

From the start of 2016 (Saturn) the podcast version of the programme started to include a few minutes of unbroadcast extra material, which would generally be prompted by the question So, what did we miss?

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24 September 2015	Perpetual motion	Template:Indented plainlist
1 October 2015	Alexander the Great	Template:Indented plainlist
15 October 2015	Holbein at the Tudor Court	Template:Indented plainlist
22 October 2015	Simone de Beauvoir	Template:Indented plainlist
29 October 2015	The Empire of Mali	Template:Indented plainlist
5 November 2015	P v NP	Template:Indented plainlist
12 November 2015	The Battle of Lepanto	Template:Indented plainlist
19 November 2015	Emma	Template:Indented plainlist
29 November 2015	The Salem Witch Trials	Template:Indented plainlist
3 December 2015	Voyages of James Cook	Template:Indented plainlist
10 December 2015	Chinese Legalism	Template:Indented plainlist
17 December 2015	Circadian rhythms	Template:Indented plainlist
25 December 2015	Michael Faraday	Template:Indented plainlist
31 December 2015	Tristan and Iseult	Template:Indented plainlist
14 January 2016	Saturn	Template:Indented plainlist
21 January 2016	Thomas Paine's Common Sense	Template:Indented plainlist
28 January 2016	Eleanor of Aquitaine	Template:Indented plainlist
4 February 2016	Chromatography	Template:Indented plainlist
11 February 2016	Rumi's Poetry	Template:Indented plainlist
18 February 2016	Robert Hooke	Template:Indented plainlist
25 February 2016	Mary Magdalene	Template:Indented plainlist
3 March 2016	The Dutch East India Company	Template:Indented plainlist
10 March 2016	The Maya Civilization	Template:Indented plainlist
17 March 2016	Bedlam	Template:Indented plainlist
24 March 2016	Aurora Leigh	Template:Indented plainlist
31 March 2016	Agrippina the Younger	Template:Indented plainlist
7 April 2016	The Sikh Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
14 April 2016	The Neutron	Template:Indented plainlist
21 April 2016	1816, the Year Without a Summer	Template:Indented plainlist
28 April 2016	Euclid's Elements	Template:Indented plainlist
5 May 2016	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Template:Indented plainlist
12 May 2016	Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'	Template:Indented plainlist
19 May 2016	The Muses	Template:Indented plainlist
26 May 2016	The Gettysburg Address	Template:Indented plainlist
2 June 2016	Margery Kempe and English Mysticism	Template:Indented plainlist
9 June 2016	Penicillin	Template:Indented plainlist
16 June 2016	The Bronze Age Collapse	Template:Indented plainlist
23 June 2016	Songs of Innocence and of Experience	Template:Indented plainlist
30 June 2016	Sovereignty	Template:Indented plainlist
7 July 2016	The Invention of Photography	Template:Indented plainlist

2016–2017

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22 September 2016	Zeno's paradoxes	Template:Indented plainlist
29 September 2016	Animal Farm	Template:Indented plainlist
6 October 2016	Lakshmi	Template:Indented plainlist
13 October 2016	Plasma	Template:Indented plainlist
20 October 2016	The 12th Century Renaissance	Template:Indented plainlist
27 October 2016	John Dalton	Template:Indented plainlist
3 November 2016	Epic of Gilgamesh	Template:Indented plainlist
10 November 2016	The Fighting Temeraire	Template:Indented plainlist
17 November 2016	Justinian's Legal Code	Template:Indented plainlist
24 November 2016	Baltic Crusades	Template:Indented plainlist
1 December 2016	Garibaldi and the Risorgimento	Template:Indented plainlist
8 December 2016	Harriet Martineau	Template:Indented plainlist
15 December 2016	The Gin Craze	Template:Indented plainlist
21 December 2016	Four Quartets	Template:Indented plainlist
29 December 2016	Johannes Kepler	Template:Indented plainlist
12 January 2017	Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality	Template:Indented plainlist
19 January 2017	Mary, Queen of Scots	Template:Indented plainlist
26 January 2017	Parasitism	Template:Indented plainlist
2 February 2017	Hannah Arendt	Template:Indented plainlist
9 February 2017	John Clare	Template:Indented plainlist
16 February 2017	Maths in the Early Islamic World	Template:Indented plainlist
23 February 2017	Seneca the Younger	Template:Indented plainlist
2 March 2017	The Kuiper belt	Template:Indented plainlist
9 March 2017	North and South	Template:Indented plainlist
16 March 2017	The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum	Template:Indented plainlist
23 March 2017	The Battle of Salamis	Template:Indented plainlist
30 March 2017	Hokusai	Template:Indented plainlist
6 April 2017	Pauli's exclusion principle	Template:Indented plainlist
13 April 2017	Rosa Luxemburg	Template:Indented plainlist
20 April 2017	Roger Bacon	Template:Indented plainlist
27 April 2017	The Egyptian Book of the Dead	Template:Indented plainlist
4 May 2017	The Battle of Lincoln 1217	Template:Indented plainlist
11 May 2017	Emily Dickinson	Template:Indented plainlist
18 May 2017	Louis Pasteur	Template:Indented plainlist
25 May 2017	Purgatory	Template:Indented plainlist
1 June 2017	Enzymes	Template:Indented plainlist
8 June 2017	Christine de Pizan	Template:Indented plainlist
15 June 2017	The American Populists	Template:Indented plainlist
22 June 2017	Eugene Onegin	Template:Indented plainlist
29 June 2017	Plato's Republic	Template:Indented plainlist
6 July 2017	Bird migration	Template:Indented plainlist

2017–2018

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21 September 2017	Kant's Categorical Imperative	Template:Indented plainlist
28 September 2017	Wuthering Heights	Template:Indented plainlist
5 October 2017	Constantine the Great	Template:Indented plainlist
12 October 2017	Aphra Behn	Template:Indented plainlist
19 October 2017	The Congress of Vienna	Template:Indented plainlist
26 October 2017	Feathered dinosaurs	Template:Indented plainlist
2 November 2017	Picasso's Guernica	Template:Indented plainlist
9 November 2017	The Picts	Template:Indented plainlist
16 November 2017	Germaine de Staël	Template:Indented plainlist
23 November 2017	Thebes	Template:Indented plainlist
30 November 2017	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Template:Indented plainlist
7 December 2017	Moby Dick	Template:Indented plainlist
14 December 2017	Thomas Becket	Template:Indented plainlist
21 December 2017	Beethoven	Template:Indented plainlist
28 December 2017	Hamlet	Template:Indented plainlist
11 January 2018	The Siege of Malta, 1565	Template:Indented plainlist
18 January 2018	Anna Akhmatova	Template:Indented plainlist
25 January 2018	Cicero	Template:Indented plainlist
1 February 2018	Cephalopods	Template:Indented plainlist
9 February 2018	Frederick Douglass	Template:Indented plainlist
15 February 2018	Fungi	Template:Indented plainlist
22 February 2018	Rosalind Franklin	Template:Indented plainlist
1 March 2018	Sun Tzu and The Art of War	Template:Indented plainlist
8 March 2018	The Highland Clearances	Template:Indented plainlist
15 March 2018	Augustine's Confessions	Template:Indented plainlist
22 March 2018	Tocqueville: Democracy in America	Template:Indented plainlist
5 April 2018	Roman Slavery	Template:Indented plainlist
11 April 2018	George and Robert Stephenson	Template:Indented plainlist
18 April 2018	Middlemarch	Template:Indented plainlist
26 April 2018	The Proton	Template:Indented plainlist
3 May 2018	The Almoravid Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
10 May 2018	The Mabinogion	Template:Indented plainlist
17 May 2018	The Emancipation of the Serfs	Template:Indented plainlist
25 May 2018	Margaret of Anjou	Template:Indented plainlist
31 May 2018	Henrik Ibsen	Template:Indented plainlist
7 June 2018	Persepolis	Template:Indented plainlist
14 June 2018	Montesquieu	Template:Indented plainlist
21 June 2018	Echolocation	Template:Indented plainlist
28 June 2018	The Mexican-American War	Template:Indented plainlist
5 July 2018	William Morris	Template:Indented plainlist

2018–2019

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13 September 2018	The Iliad	Template:Indented plainlist
20 September 2018	Automata	Template:Indented plainlist
27 September 2018	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Template:Indented plainlist
4 October 2018	Edith Wharton	Template:Indented plainlist
11 October 2018	Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets	Template:Indented plainlist
18 October 2018	Is Shakespeare History? The Romans	Template:Indented plainlist
25 October 2018	The Fable of the Bees	Template:Indented plainlist
1 November 2018	Free Radicals	Template:Indented plainlist
8 November 2018	Marie Antoinette	Template:Indented plainlist
15 November 2018	Horace	Template:Indented plainlist
22 November 2018	Hope	Template:Indented plainlist
29 November 2018	The Long March	Template:Indented plainlist
6 December 2018	The Thirty Years War	Template:Indented plainlist
13 December 2018	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Template:Indented plainlist
20 December 2018	The Poor Laws	Template:Indented plainlist
27 December 2018	Venus	Template:Indented plainlist
10 January 2019	Papal Infallibility	Template:Indented plainlist
17 January 2019	Samuel Beckett	Template:Indented plainlist
24 January 2019	Emmy Noether	Template:Indented plainlist
31 January 2019	Owain Glyndŵr	Template:Indented plainlist
7 February 2019	Aristotle's biology	Template:Indented plainlist
14 February 2019	Judith beheading Holofernes	Template:Indented plainlist
21 February 2019	Pheromones	Template:Indented plainlist
28 February 2019	Antarah ibn Shaddad	Template:Indented plainlist
7 March 2019	William Cecil	Template:Indented plainlist
14 March 2019	Authenticity	Template:Indented plainlist
21 March 2019	Gerard Manley Hopkins	Template:Indented plainlist
28 March 2019	The Danelaw	Template:Indented plainlist
4 April 2019	The Great Irish Famine	Template:Indented plainlist
11 April 2019	The Evolution of Teeth	Template:Indented plainlist
18 April 2019	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Template:Indented plainlist
25 April 2019	Nero	Template:Indented plainlist
2 May 2019	The Gordon Riots	Template:Indented plainlist
9 May 2019	Bergson and Time	Template:Indented plainlist
16 May 2019	Frankenstein	Template:Indented plainlist
23 May 2019	Kinetic Theory	Template:Indented plainlist
30 May 2019	President Ulysses S Grant	Template:Indented plainlist
6 June 2019	Sir Thomas Browne	Template:Indented plainlist
13 June 2019	The Inca	Template:Indented plainlist
20 June 2019	The Mytilenaean Debate	Template:Indented plainlist
27 June 2019	Doggerland	Template:Indented plainlist
4 July 2019	Lorca	Template:Indented plainlist

2019–2020

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19 September 2019	Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow	Template:Indented plainlist
26 September 2019	The Rapture	Template:Indented plainlist
3 October 2019	Dorothy Hodgkin	Template:Indented plainlist
10 October 2019	Rousseau on Education	Template:Indented plainlist
17 October 2019	The Time Machine	Template:Indented plainlist
24 October 2019	Robert Burns	Template:Indented plainlist
31 October 2019	Hybrids	Template:Indented plainlist
7 November 2019	The Treaty of Limerick	Template:Indented plainlist
14 November 2019	Crime and Punishment	Template:Indented plainlist
21 November 2019	Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem	Template:Indented plainlist
28 November 2019	Li Shizhen	Template:Indented plainlist
5 December 2019	Lawrence of Arabia	Template:Indented plainlist
12 December 2019	Coffee	Template:Indented plainlist
19 December 2019	Auden	Template:Indented plainlist
26 December 2019	Tutankhamun	Template:Indented plainlist
11 January 2020	Catullus	Template:Indented plainlist
16 January 2020	The Siege of Paris (1870-71)	Template:Indented plainlist
23 January 2020	Solar Wind	Template:Indented plainlist
30 January 2020	Alcuin	Template:Indented plainlist
6 February 2020	George Sand	Template:Indented plainlist
13 February 2020	Battle of the Teutoburg Forest	Template:Indented plainlist
20 February 2020	The Valladolid Debate	Template:Indented plainlist
27 February 2020	The Evolution of Horses	Template:Indented plainlist
5 March 2020	Paul Dirac	Template:Indented plainlist
12 March 2020	The Covenanters	Template:Indented plainlist

The 2019–2020 series was truncated because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020–2021

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17 September 2020	Pericles	Template:Indented plainlist
24 September 2020	Cave Art	Template:Indented plainlist
1 October 2020	Macbeth	Template:Indented plainlist
8 October 2020	Deism	Template:Indented plainlist
15 October 2020	Alan Turing	Template:Indented plainlist
22 October 2020	Maria Theresa	Template:Indented plainlist
29 October 2020	Piers Plowman	Template:Indented plainlist
5 November 2020	Mary Astell	Template:Indented plainlist
12 November 2020	Albrecht Dürer	Template:Indented plainlist
26 November 2020	The Zong Massacre	Template:Indented plainlist
3 December 2020	Fernando Pessoa	Template:Indented plainlist
10 December 2020	John Wesley and Methodism	Template:Indented plainlist
17 December 2020	The Cultural Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
31 December 2020	Eclipses	Template:Indented plainlist
14 January 2021	The Great Gatsby	Template:Indented plainlist
21 January 2021	The Plague of Justinian	Template:Indented plainlist
28 January 2021	Saint Cuthbert	Template:Indented plainlist
4 February 2021	Emilie du Châtelet	Template:Indented plainlist
11 February 2021	The Rosetta Stone	Template:Indented plainlist
18 February 2021	Medieval Pilgrimage	Template:Indented plainlist
25 February 2021	Marcus Aurelius	Template:Indented plainlist
4 March 2021	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Template:Indented plainlist
11 March 2021	The Late Devonian Extinction	Template:Indented plainlist
18 March 2021	The Bacchae	Template:Indented plainlist
25 March 2021	David Ricardo	Template:Indented plainlist
1 April 2021	The Russo-Japanese War	Template:Indented plainlist
8 April 2021	Pierre-Simon Laplace	Template:Indented plainlist
15 April 2021	Arianism	Template:Indented plainlist
22 April 2021	The Franco-American Alliance 1778	Template:Indented plainlist
29 April 2021	Ovid	Template:Indented plainlist
6 May 2021	The Second Barons' War	Template:Indented plainlist
13 May 2021	Longitude	Template:Indented plainlist
20 May 2021	Journey to the West	Template:Indented plainlist
27 May 2021	The Interregnum	Template:Indented plainlist
3 June 2021	Kant's Copernican Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
10 June 2021	Booth's Life and Labour Survey	Template:Indented plainlist
17 June 2021	Edward Gibbon	Template:Indented plainlist
24 June 2021	Shakespeare's Sonnets	Template:Indented plainlist

2021–2022

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
16 September 2021	The Evolution of Crocodiles	Template:Indented plainlist
23 September 2021	Herodotus	Template:Indented plainlist
30 September 2021	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	Template:Indented plainlist
7 October 2021	The Manhattan Project	Template:Indented plainlist
14 October 2021	The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	Template:Indented plainlist
21 October 2021	Iris Murdoch	Template:Indented plainlist
28 October 2021	Corals	Template:Indented plainlist
4 November 2021	The Song of Roland	Template:Indented plainlist
11 November 2021	William and Caroline Herschel	Template:Indented plainlist
18 November 2021	The Decadent Movement	Template:Indented plainlist
25 November 2021	Plato's Gorgias	Template:Indented plainlist
2 December 2021	The Battle of Trafalgar	Template:Indented plainlist
9 December 2021	The May Fourth Movement	Template:Indented plainlist
16 December 2021	A Christmas Carol	Template:Indented plainlist
23 December 2021	The Hittites	Template:Indented plainlist
30 December 2021	Fritz Lang	Template:Indented plainlist
13 January 2022	Thomas Hardy's Poetry	Template:Indented plainlist
20 January 2022	The Gold Standard	Template:Indented plainlist
27 January 2022	Colette	Template:Indented plainlist
3 February 2022	The Temperance Movement	Template:Indented plainlist
10 February 2022	Walter Benjamin	Template:Indented plainlist
17 February 2022	Romeo and Juliet	Template:Indented plainlist
24 February 2022	Peter Kropotkin	Template:Indented plainlist
3 March 2022	The Arthashastra	Template:Indented plainlist
10 March 2022	Seismology	Template:Indented plainlist
17 March 2022	Charisma	Template:Indented plainlist
24 March 2022	Antigone	Template:Indented plainlist
31 March 2022	The Sistine Chapel	Template:Indented plainlist
07 April 2022	Polidori's The Vampyre	Template:Indented plainlist
14 April 2022	Homo erectus	Template:Indented plainlist
21 April 2022	Olympe de Gouges	Template:Indented plainlist
28 April 2022	Early Christian Martyrdom	Template:Indented plainlist
5 May 2022	The Davidian Revolution	Template:Indented plainlist
12 May 2022	Tang Era Poetry	Template:Indented plainlist
19 May 2022	Comenius	Template:Indented plainlist
26 May 2022	Hegel's Philosophy of History	Template:Indented plainlist
9 June 2022	The Death of Stars	Template:Indented plainlist
16 June 2022	Dylan Thomas	Template:Indented plainlist
23 June 2022	Angkor Wat	Template:Indented plainlist
30 June 2022	John Bull	Template:Indented plainlist

2022–2023

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
15 September 2022	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Template:Indented plainlist
22 September 2022	Plato's Atlantis	Template:Indented plainlist
29 September 2022	The Electron	Template:Indented plainlist
6 October 2022	The Knights Templar	Template:Indented plainlist
13 October 2022	Berthe Morisot	Template:Indented plainlist
20 October 2022	The Fish-Tetrapod Transition	Template:Indented plainlist
27 October 2022	Wilfred Owen	Template:Indented plainlist
3 November 2022	The Morant Bay Rebellion	Template:Indented plainlist
10 November 2022	Bauhaus	Template:Indented plainlist
17 November 2022	Demosthenes' Philippics	Template:Indented plainlist
24 November 2022	The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876	Template:Indented plainlist
1 December 2022	The Nibelungenlied	Template:Indented plainlist
8 December 2022	The Irish Rebellion of 1798	Template:Indented plainlist
15 December 2022	Citizen Kane	Template:Indented plainlist
22 December 2022	Persuasion	Template:Indented plainlist
29 December 2022	The Great Stink	Template:Indented plainlist
12 January 2023	John Donne	Template:Indented plainlist
19 January 2023	Rawls' Theory of Justice	Template:Indented plainlist
26 January 2023	Superconductivity	Template:Indented plainlist
2 February 2023	Tycho Brahe	Template:Indented plainlist
9 Feb 2023	Chartism	Template:Indented plainlist
16 Feb 2023	Stevie Smith	Template:Indented plainlist
23 Feb 2023	Paul Erdős	Template:Indented plainlist
2 Mar 2023	Megaliths	Template:Indented plainlist
9 March 2023	The Ramayana	Template:Indented plainlist
16 March 2023	Mercantilism	Template:Indented plainlist
23 March 2023	Solon the Lawgiver	Template:Indented plainlist
30 March 2023	A Room of One's Own	Template:Indented plainlist
6 April 2023	Cnut	Template:Indented plainlist
13 April 2023	The Battle of Crécy	Template:Indented plainlist
20 April 2023	Linnaeus	Template:Indented plainlist
27 April 2023	Walt Whitman	Template:Indented plainlist
4 May 2023	The Dead Sea Scrolls	Template:Indented plainlist
11 May 2023	The Shimabara Rebellion	Template:Indented plainlist
18 May 2023	Virgil's Georgics	Template:Indented plainlist
25 May 2023	Louis XIV: The Sun King	Template:Indented plainlist
01 June 2023	Mitochondria	Template:Indented plainlist
08 June 2023	Oedipus Rex	Template:Indented plainlist
15 June 2023	Death in Venice	Template:Indented plainlist
22 June 2023	Elizabeth Anscombe	Template:Indented plainlist
29 June 2023	Jupiter	Template:Indented plainlist

2023–2024

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
14 September 2023	Albert Einstein	Template:Indented plainlist
21 September 2023	The Seventh Seal (1000th program)	Template:Indented plainlist
21 September 2023	Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain	Template:Indented plainlist
28 September 2023	The Economic Consequences of the Peace	Template:Indented plainlist
05 October 2023	Plankton	Template:Indented plainlist
12 October 2023	The Federalist Papers	Template:Indented plainlist
19 October 2023	Julian of Norwich	Template:Indented plainlist
26 October 2023	Germinal	Template:Indented plainlist
02 November 2023	Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics	Template:Indented plainlist
09 November 2023	The Barbary Corsairs	Template:Indented plainlist
16 November 2023	The Theory of the Leisure Class	Template:Indented plainlist
23 November 2023	Marguerite de Navarre	Template:Indented plainlist
30 November 2023	Edgar Allan Poe	Template:Indented plainlist
07 December 2023	Karl Barth	Template:Indented plainlist
14 December 2023	Tiberius	Template:Indented plainlist
21 December 2023	Vincent van Gogh	Template:Indented plainlist
28 December 2023	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Template:Indented plainlist
11 January 2024	Condorcet	Template:Indented plainlist
18 January 2024	Nefertiti	Template:Indented plainlist
25 January 2024	Panpsychism	Template:Indented plainlist
1 February 2024	The Hanseatic League	Template:Indented plainlist
8 February 2024	Hormones	Template:Indented plainlist
15 February 2024	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Template:Indented plainlist
22 February 2024	The Sack of Rome 1527	Template:Indented plainlist
29 February 2024	Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle	Template:Indented plainlist
07 March 2024	The Mokrani Revolt	Template:Indented plainlist
14 March 2024	The Waltz	Template:Indented plainlist
21 March 2024	Julian the Apostate	Template:Indented plainlist
28 March 2024	The Kalevala	Template:Indented plainlist
04 April 2024	Nikola Tesla	Template:Indented plainlist
11 April 2024	Lysistrata	Template:Indented plainlist
18 April 2024	Napoleon's Hundred Days	Template:Indented plainlist
25 April 2024	Bertolt Brecht	Template:Indented plainlist
02 May 2024	Mercury	Template:Indented plainlist
09 May 2024	Sir Thomas Wyatt	Template:Indented plainlist
16 May 2024	Philippa Foot	Template:Indented plainlist
23 May 2024	Empress Dowager Cixi	Template:Indented plainlist
30 May 2024	Marsilius of Padua	Template:Indented plainlist
06 June 2024	The Orkneyinga Saga	Template:Indented plainlist
13 June 2024	Fielding's Tom Jones	Template:Indented plainlist
20 June 2024	Karma	Template:Indented plainlist
27 June 2024	Monet in England	Template:Indented plainlist
04 July 2024	Bacteriophages	Template:Indented plainlist

2024–2025

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast
19 September 2024	Benjamin Disraeli	Template:Indented plainlist
26 September 2024	Wormholes	Template:Indented plainlist
3 October 2024	The Haymarket Affair	Template:Indented plainlist
10 October 2024	Robert Graves	Template:Indented plainlist
17 October 2024	Hayek's The Road to Serfdom	Template:Indented plainlist
24 October 2024	Little Women	Template:Indented plainlist
31 October 2024	The Venetian Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
07 November 2024	George Herbert	Template:Indented plainlist
14 November 2024	The Antikythera Mechanism	Template:Indented plainlist
21 November 2024	Italo Calvino	Template:Indented plainlist
28 November 2024	The Hanoverian Succession	Template:Indented plainlist
05 December 2024	Nizami Ganjavi	Template:Indented plainlist
12 December 2024	The Habitability of Planets	Template:Indented plainlist
19 December 2024	Plutarch's Parallel Lives	Template:Indented plainlist
26 December 2024	Vase-mania	Template:Indented plainlist
02 January 2025	Slime Moulds	Template:Indented plainlist
16 January 2025	The Battle of Valmy	Template:Indented plainlist
23 January 2025	Socrates in Prison	Template:Indented plainlist
30 January 2025	Pope Joan	Template:Indented plainlist
06 February 2025	Sir John Soane	Template:Indented plainlist
13 February 2025	Catherine of Aragon	Template:Indented plainlist
20 February 2025	Oliver Goldsmith	Template:Indented plainlist
27 February 2025	Kali	Template:Indented plainlist
06 March 2025	Pollination	Template:Indented plainlist
13 March 2025	Cyrus the Great	Template:Indented plainlist
20 March 2025	Thomas Middleton	Template:Indented plainlist
27 March 2025	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	Template:Indented plainlist
03 April 2025	The Gracchi	Template:Indented plainlist
10 April 2025	The Battle of Clontarf	Template:Indented plainlist
17 April 2025	Typology	Template:Indented plainlist
24 April 2025	Molière	Template:Indented plainlist
01 May 2025	The Korean Empire	Template:Indented plainlist
08 May 2025	Lise Meitner	Template:Indented plainlist
15 May 2025	Copyright	Template:Indented plainlist
22 May 2025	Paul von Hindenburg	Template:Indented plainlist
29 May 2025	Hypnosis	Template:Indented plainlist
05 June 2025	The Vienna Secession	Template:Indented plainlist
12 June 2025	The Evolution of Lungs	Template:Indented plainlist
19 June 2025	Barbour's Brus: epic of Bannockburn, chivalry and freedom	Template:Indented plainlist
26 June 2025	Dragons	Template:Indented plainlist
03 July 2025	Civility: on talking with those who disagree with you	Template:Indented plainlist

External links

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