Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Alexander Murray

emeritus fellow in History at University College, Oxford

2 episodes

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  1. The Spanish Inquisition

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Inquisition, whose defense of medieval orthodoxy is a story of heresy, torture, courage, imprisonment, exile and death.

    22 June 2006

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    Also featuring: John Edwards, Michael Alpert

     
  2. Greyfriars and Blackfriars

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the religious orders of the Dominicans and the Franciscans, the Blackfriars and Greyfriars, who were a great force for change in Catholic Europe.

    10 November 2005

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    Also featuring: Henrietta Leyser, Anthony Kenny