Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Elisabeth Blochmann (German: [ˈblɔχman]; 14 April 1892 in Apolda – 27 January 1972 in Marburg) was a scholar of education, as well as of philosophy, and a pioneer in and researcher of women's education in Germany. == Life == Born in 1892 as the first child of the public prosecutor Dr.

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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

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  2. The Brothers Grimm

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and what they can tell us about the German imagination and 19th-century romantic nationalism.

    5 February 2009

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    Featuring: Juliette Wood, Marina Warner, Tony Phelan

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