Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

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  1. Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin

    Melvyn Bragg presents a series about the life and work of Charles Darwin. Darwin's early life and time at Cambridge, where his interests shifted from religion to natural science.

    5 January 2009

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    Featuring: Jim Moore, Steve Jones, David Norman, Colin Higgins

     
  2. David Hume

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of David Hume, the philosopher and leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.

    6 October 2011

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    Featuring: Peter Millican, Helen Beebee, James Harris

     
  3. Maxwell

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of the often overlooked 19th century Scottish scientist, and his enormous contribution to the creation of the technological age in which we live.

    2 October 2003

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    Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Peter Harman, Joanna Haigh

     
  4. Oliver Goldsmith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village who was a great populariser of science and history in his time.

    20 February 2025

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    Featuring: David O’Shaughnessy, Judith Hawley, Michael Griffin

     
  5. Polidori's The Vampyre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myths that gave rise to this novella from 1819 by Byron's physician, John Polidori, and the works such as Bram Stoker's Dracula it inspired.

    07 April 2022

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    Featuring: Nick Groom, Samantha George, Martyn Rady