Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Peter Pormann

Professor of Classics & Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester

3 episodes

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  1. The Hippocratic Oath

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath, the most celebrated text in Western medicine.

    15 September 2011

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    Also featuring: Vivian Nutton, Helen King

     
  2. The Translation Movement

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the movement of classical Greek ideas out of the Byzantine Empire and into the Islamic world from the 9th century onwards.

    2 October 2008

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    Also featuring: Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison