Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

German women philosophers

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  1. Hannah Arendt

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored 'the banality of evil'.

    2 February 2017

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    Featuring: Lyndsey Stonebridge, Frisbee Sheffield, Robert Eaglestone

     
  2. Hildegard of Bingen

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval mystic, composer and writer Hildegard of Bingen.

    26 June 2014

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    Featuring: Miri Rubin, William Flynn, Almut Suerbaum

     
  3. Rosa Luxemburg

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rosa Luxemburg, 'Red Rosa', a leading revolutionary and agitator in Poland and Germany until her arrest and murder in the Spartacus Revolt 1919.

    13 April 2017

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    Featuring: Jacqueline Rose, Mark Jones, Nadine Rossol