Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

English atheists

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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  1. Alan Turing

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of the founder of computer science - whose work helped crack enemy codes in WW2 - and his exploration of artificial intelligence.

    15 October 2020

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    Featuring: Leslie Ann Goldberg, Simon Schaffer, Andrew Hodges

     
  2. Harriet Martineau

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who wrote extensively in the C19th on a wide range of subjects including abolition, and is called the mother of sociology.

    8 December 2016

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    Featuring: Valerie Sanders, Karen O'Brien, Ella Dzelzainis

     
  3. Philippa Foot

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notable philosophers of the 20th century, who explored why it mattered to be moral and why humans needed virtues to flourish.

    16 May 2024

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    Featuring: Anil Gomes, Sophie Grace Chappell, Rachael Wiseman

     
  4. Robert Graves

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the author of I, Claudius, especially his love and war poems and his ideas on the source of all creativity.

    10 October 2024

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    Featuring: Paul O'Prey, Fran Brearton, Bob Davis

     
  5. Stevie Smith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning, whose success has arguably overshadowed her wider work as a poet and novelist.

    16 Feb 2023

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    Featuring: Jeremy Noel-Tod, Noreen Masud, Will May

     
  6. William Morris

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the many aspects of William Morris: his activism, poetry and prose and his ideas on arts, crafts and work in an industrial world.

    5 July 2018

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    Featuring: Ingrid Hanson, Marcus Waithe, Jane Thomas