Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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  1. Edmund Burke

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke, whose views on revolution in America and France were hugely influential.

    3 June 2010

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, Richard Bourke, John Keane

     
  2. Oliver Goldsmith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village who was a great populariser of science and history in his time.

    20 February 2025

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    Featuring: David O’Shaughnessy, Judith Hawley, Michael Griffin

     
  3. Robert Boyle

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Robert Boyle, a pioneering scientist and one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society.

    12 June 2014

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    Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Michael Hunter, Anna Marie Roos

     
  4. Yeats and Irish Politics

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics from the suspension of home rule to the division of Ireland.

    17 April 2008

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    Featuring: Roy Foster, Fran Brearton, Warwick Gould

     
  5. Yeats and Mysticism

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and beliefs of the Irish Poet W B Yeats and explores how a passion for magic and mysticism served and stood alongside his poetry.

    31 January 2002

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    Featuring: Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, Brenda Maddox