Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

British philosophers of language

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  1. Bertrand Russell

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influential 20th-century British thinker Bertrand Russell, widely regarded as one of the founders of Analytical philosophy.

    6 December 2012

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    Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Mike Beaney, Hilary Greaves

     
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  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. Mill

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the 19th century political philosopher John Stuart Mill and his treatise On Liberty which is one of the sacred texts of liberalism.

    18 May 2006

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    Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Alan Ryan