Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Dialogues

Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature.

2 episodes

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  1. The Bhagavad Gita

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the contents and influence of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most revered texts of Hinduism.

    31 March 2011

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    Featuring: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Julius J. Lipner, Jessica Frazier

     
  2. The Consolations of Philosophy

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and asks whether philosophy should lead us toward consolation or lead us from it.

    1 January 2009

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    Featuring: A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane, Roger Scruton