Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Jonathan Sawday

Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde

6 episodes

Appears in multiple episodes with: Peter Forshaw

Covers topics in categories such as:

  1. The Fire of London

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Great Fire of London in 1666 and how the city rose from the ashes.

    11 December 2008

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    Also featuring: Lisa Jardine, Vanessa Harding

     
  2. The Brain

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.

    8 May 2008

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    Also featuring: Vivian Nutton, Marina Wallace

     
  3. Renaissance Astrology

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology, an essential part of Renaissance thinking on magic, music, medicine, politics, cosmology, destiny and much more.

    14 June 2007

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    Also featuring: Peter Forshaw, Lauren Kassell

     
  4. The Heart

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the heart, a symbol to our spiritual, emotional, and moral core.

    1 June 2006

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    Also featuring: David Wootton, Fay Bound Alberti

     
  5. Renaissance Magic

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Renaissance obsession with Magic, including the serious and religious study of the 'hermetic texts' and the cabbala.

    17 June 2004

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    Also featuring: Peter Forshaw, Valery Rees

     
  6. Blood

    Melvyn Bragg discusses blood from medical progress to the link to the divine and how it was used to define both Man and Messiah.

    22 May 2003

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    Also featuring: Miri Rubin, Anne Hardy