Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

19th-century German male musicians

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  1. Beethoven

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of Beethoven, from Bonn to Vienna, where he became one of the great composers, despite his growing deafness.

    21 December 2017

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    Featuring: Laura Tunbridge, John Deathridge, Erica Buurman

     
  2. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's influential ideas about what it means to be moral.

    12 January 2017

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    Featuring: Stephen Mulhall, Fiona Hughes, Keith Ansell-Pearson

     
  3. Wagner

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the life, and legacy of the German composer Richard Wagner, mentor of Nietzsche and disciple of Schopenhauer, who changed the face of 19th century opera.

    20 June 2002

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    Featuring: John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett, Michael Tanner

     
  4. William and Caroline Herschel

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering brother and sister who, between them, discovered Uranus, comets, double stars and infrared light at the end of the 18th century.

    11 November 2021

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    Featuring: Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford, Jim Bennett