Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett.

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  1. Dorothy Hodgkin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work, ideas and life of the woman who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin.

    3 October 2019

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    Featuring: Georgina Ferry, Judith Howard, Patricia Fara

     
  2. Elizabeth Anscombe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential thinker who rejuvenated moral philosophy in the postwar period.

    22 June 2023

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    Featuring: Rachael Wiseman, Constantine Sandis, Roger Teichmann

     
  3. Iris Murdoch

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growing prominence of the philosophy of one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century, who developed her ideas in response to WWII.

    21 October 2021

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    Featuring: Anil Gomes, Anne Rowe, Miles Leeson

     
  4. Rosalind Franklin

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the achievements of the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.

    22 February 2018

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    Featuring: Patricia Fara, Jim Naismith, Judith Howard