Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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  1. The Age of the Universe

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a question which has obsessed cosmologists for millennia: how old is the Universe?

    3 March 2011

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    Featuring: Martin Rees, Carolin Crawford, Carlos Frenk

     
  2. The Universe's Origins

    Melvyn Bragg examines the way thinking about the origins of the universe changed in the 20th century. Are we any closer to knowing whether other worlds exist and how our planet came into being?

    20 May 1999

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    Featuring: Martin Rees, Paul Davies

     
  3. The Universe's Shape

    Melvyn Bragg discusses shape, size and topology of the universe and examines theories about its expansion. If it is already infinite, how can it be getting any bigger? And is there really only one?

    7 February 2002

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    Featuring: Martin Rees, Julian Barbour, Janna Levin