Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Classical-period composers

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music, but a more sophisticated use of form.

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  1. Rousseau on Education

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rousseau's ideas on how to educate children so they retain their natural selves and are not corrupted by society.

    10 October 2019

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    Featuring: Richard Whatmore, Caroline Warman, Denis McManus

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    Philosophy18th-century male musicians18th-century philosophersConverts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism, Romantic philosophersPhilosophers of literatureAge of EnlightenmentProto-evolutionary biologistsSocial philosophersPhilosophers of economicsBurials at the Panthéon, ParisFrench political philosophersCatholic philosophersPhilosophers of culturePhilosophers of educationPhilosophers of artPeople with hypochondriasis18th-century classical composersDeist philosophersPhilosophers of mindContributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)Classical-period composersAutobiographersEnlightenment philosophersWriters about activism and social changePhilosophers of scienceSimple living advocates

  2. 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

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    ScienceFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences18th-century German composersFellows of the Royal SocietyBritish scientific instrument makersGerman male classical composersClassical-period composers18th-century German astronomers19th-century German male musiciansHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesGerman classical composersGerman LutheransMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences18th-century classical composers18th-century keyboardistsRecipients of the Copley Medal