In Our Time(a Titles &
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389+ eps | BBC Radio 4 | 45 min |
In Our Time(a Titles &
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| aired from: Oct 1998 to: |
389+ eps | BBC Radio 4 | 45 min |
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Episode # Air Date Titles
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1st Series 1998 30 min.
1. 1- 1 Oct 15 98 Science vs. Wonder (Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan)
2. 1- 2 Oct 22 98 Governmental Responsibility (Gore Vidal, Alan Clark)
3. 1- 3 Oct 29 98 (Michael Howard, Michael Ignatieff)
4. 1- 4 Nov 5 98 (Mary Midgely, John Gribbin)
5. 1- 5 Nov 12 98
6. 1- 6 Nov 19 98
7. 1- 7 Nov 26 98
8. 1- 8 Dec 3 98
9. 1- 9 Dec 10 98
10. 1-10 Dec 17 98
11. 1-11 Dec 24 98
12. 1-12 Dec 31 98
13. 1-13 Jan 7 99
14. 1-14 Jan 14 99
15. 1-15 Jan 21 99
16. 1-16 Jan 28 99
17. 1-17 Feb 4 99
18. 1-18 Feb 11 99
19. 1-19 Feb 18 99
20. 1-20 Feb 25 99
21. 1-21 Mar 4 99
22. 1-22 Mar 11 99
23. 1-23 Mar 18 99
24. 1-24 Mar 25 99
25. 1-25 Apr 1 99
26. 1-26 Apr 8 99
27. 1-27 Apr 15 99
28. 1-28 Apr 22 99
29. 1-29 Apr 29 99
30. 1-30 May 6 99
31. 1-31 May 13 99
32. 1-32 May 20 99
33. 1-33 May 27 99
34. 1-34 Jun 3 99
35. 1-35 Jun 10 99
36. 1-36 Jun 17 99
37. 1-37 Jun 24 99
38. 1-38 Jul 1 99
39. 1-39 Jul 8 99
40. 1-40 Jul 15 99
41. 1-41 Jul 22 99 (Patrick Wall, Semir Zeki)
2nd Series 1999
42. 2- 1 Sep 23 99 Genes and Evolution (Steve Jones, Matt Ridley)
43. 2- 2 Sep 30 99
44. 2- 3 Oct 7 99
45. 2- 4 Oct 14 99
46. 2- 5 Oct 21 99
47. 2- 6 Oct 28 99 Inhumanity (Jonathan Glover)
48. 2- 7 Nov 4 99
49. 2- 8 Nov 11 99
50. 2- 9 Nov 18 99
51. 2-10 Nov 25 99
52. 2-11 Dec 2 99
53. 2-12 Dec 9 99
54. 2-13 Dec 16 99
55. 2-14 Dec 23 99
56. 2-15 Dec 30 99
57. 2-16 Jan 6 00
58. 2-17 Jan 13 00
59. 2-18 Jan 20 00
60. 2-19 Jan 27 00
61. 2-20 Feb 3 00
62. 2-21 Feb 10 00
63. 2-22 Feb 17 00
64. 2-23 Feb 24 00
65. 2-24 Mar 2 00
66. 2-25 Mar 9 00 Atheism (AN Wilson), Science and Religion (Victoria Glendinning)
67. 2-26 Mar 16 00
68. 2-27 Mar 23 00
69. 2-28 Mar 30 00 Right-Wing Thought (Kenneth Minogue)
70. 2-29 Apr 6 00 Classification of Animals (Colin Tudge, Henry Gee, Sandy Knapp)
71. 2-30 Apr 13 00 Post-Cold War Theory (Michael Howard, Mary Kaldor)
72. 2-31 Apr 20 00
73. 2-32 Apr 27 00 Human Evolution
74. 2-33 May 4 00 Death in Western Art (Thomas Lynch, Jonathan Dollimore)
75. 2-34 May 11 00
76. 2-35 May 18 00
77. 2-36 May 25 00
78. 2-37 Jun 1 00
79. 2-38 Jun 8 00
80. 2-39 Jun 15 00
81. 2-40 Jun 22 00
82. 2-41 Jun 29 00
3rd Series 2000 45 min. with 30 min. repeats
83. 3- 1 Sep 28 00 London, the Biography (Peter Ackroyd)
84. 3- 2 Oct 5 00 Hitler (Ian Kershaw)
85. 3- 3 Oct 12 00
86. 3- 4 Oct 19 00
87. 3- 5 Oct 26 00
88. 3- 6 Nov 2 00
89. 3- 7 Nov 9 00
90. 3- 8 Nov 16 00
91. 3- 9 Jan 4 01
92. 3-10 Jan 11 01
93. 3-11 Jan 18 01
94. 3-12 Jan 25 01
95. 3-13 Feb 1 01
96. 3-14 Feb 8 01
97. 3-15 Feb 15 01
98. 3-16 Feb 22 01 Quantum Gravity (Lee Smolin, John Gribbin)
99. 3-17 Mar 1 01
100. 3-18 Mar 15 01
101. 3-19 Mar 22 01
102. 3-20 Mar 29 01
103. 3-21 Apr 5 01
104. 3-22 Apr 12 01
105. 3-23 Apr 19 01
106. 3-24 Apr 26 01
107. 3-25 May 3 01
108. 3-26 May 10 01
109. 3-27 May 17 01
110. 3-28 Jun 14 01
111. 3-29 Jun 21 01
112. 3-30 Jun 28 01
113. 3-31 Jul 5 01
114. 3-32 Jul 12 01
115. 3-33 Jul 19 01
4th Series 2001
116. 4- 1 Oct 18 01
117. 4- 2 Oct 25 01
118. 4- 3 Nov 1 01
119. 4- 4 Nov 8 01
120. 4- 5 Nov 15 01
121. 4- 6 Nov 22 01
122. 4- 7 Nov 29 01
123. 4- 8 Dec 6 01
124. 4- 9 Dec 13 01
125. 4-10 Dec 20 01
126. 4-11 Dec 27 01 Food (Felipe Fernandez Armesto, Rebecca Sprang, Theodore Zelden)
127. 4-12 Jan 3 02
128. 4-13 Jan 10 02
129. 4-14 Jan 17 02
130. 4-15 Jan 24 02
131. 4-16 Jan 31 02
132. 4-17 Feb 7 02
133. 4-18 Feb 14 02 2000 Years of Anatomical Study
134. 4-19 Feb 21 02 What Were the Celts in Britain Really Like?
135. 4-20 Feb 28 02 Virtue: Is it Derived from Reason?
136. 4-21 Mar 7 02 John Milton, Poet or Politician?
137. 4-22 Mar 14 02 Budhhism: Why Has It Captured the Spirit of Our Age?
138. 4-23 Mar 21 02 Marriage: Its Various Forms and the Role of the State
139. 4-24 Mar 28 02 The Artist: A Special Kind of Human Being?
140. 4-25 Apr 4 02 New Life Within Our Solar System
141. 4-26 Apr 11 02 What Did It Mean to Be Bohemian?
142. 4-27 Apr 25 02 Tolstoy: The Influence of the Russian Novel
143. 4-28 May 2 02 Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Mechanics
144. 4-29 May 9 02 The Examined Life: Is an Unexamined Life Worth Living?
145. 4-30 May 16 02 Chaos Theory: Is the Universe Chaotic or Orderly?
146. 4-31 May 23 02 History of Drugs: Their Role in Medicine and the Arts
147. 4-32 May 30 02 The Grand Tour: What Drove This Desire for Travel?
148. 4-33 Jun 6 02 The Soul: The Key to Our Individuality as Humans?
149. 4-34 Jun 13 02 The American West: Was It an "Experiment of Liberty"?
150. 4-35 Jun 20 02 Richard Wagner: His Influence on the German Spirit
151. 4-36 Jun 27 02 Cultural Imperialism: Should We Try to Prevent It?
152. 4-37 Jul 4 02 Freedom: A Principle Worth Fighting and Dying For?
153. 4-38 Jul 11 02 Psychoanalysis: Do People Crave Dictatorship?
154. 4-39 Jul 18 02
5th Series 2002
155. 5- 1 Oct 17 02 Slavery and Empire: Were Britons Also Captives?
156. 5- 2 Oct 24 02 The Scientist in History: Missionary or Monster?
157. 5- 3 Oct 31 02 Architecture and Power: Imagery of Imperialism
158. 5- 4 Nov 7 02 Human Nature: Innate or Nurtured?
159. 5- 5 Nov 14 02 Victorian Realism: How Real?
160. 5- 6 Nov 21 02 Cordoba and Muslim Spain: a Culture of Tolerance?
161. 5- 7 Nov 28 02 Imagination: Just What Is It?
162. 5- 8 Dec 5 02 The Scottish Enlightenment: How Enlightened?
163. 5- 9 Dec 12 02 Disease: the Fight Against Diseases and Plagues
164. 5-10 Dec 19 02 The Calendar: a History of the Calendar
165. 5-11 Feb 6 03 The Epic: from Homer to Joyce
166. 5-12 Feb 13 03 Chance and Design in Evolution: Design in Nature
167. 5-13 Feb 20 03 The Lindisfarne Gospels: Unifying Christianity in Britain
168. 5-14 Feb 27 03 The Aztecs: Looking Behind the Myths
169. 5-15 Mar 6 03 Meteorology: Why Does It Still Fascinate Us?
170. 5-16 Mar 13 03 Redemption: the Concept of Salvation
171. 5-17 Mar 20 03 Originality: Is It Just a Romantic Notion?
172. 5-18 Mar 27 03 Supernovas: the Life Cycle of Stars
173. 5-19 Apr 3 03 The Spanish Civil War: Causes and Legacy
174. 5-20 Apr 17 03 Proust, His Life and Work
175. 5-21 Apr 24 03 Youth: from Adonis to James Dean
176. 5-22 May 1 03 Roman Britain: the Effects of 400 Years of Occupation
177. 5-23 May 8 03 The Jacobite Rebellion: Could It Have Succeeded?
178. 5-24 May 15 03 The Holy Grail: Just a Medieval Myth?
179. 5-25 May 22 03 Blood: Its Religious, Medical and Moral Significance
180. 5-26 May 29 03 Memory and the Brain
181. 5-27 Jun 5 03 The Lunar Society: Scientific Ferment 200 Years Ago
182. 5-28 Jun 12 03 The Art of War: Maintaining the Objective?
183. 5-29 Jun 19 03 The Aristocracy: How the Ruling Class Survives
184. 5-30 Jun 26 03 The East India Co: a Corporate Route to Empire
185. 5-31 Jul 3 03 Vulcanology: Significance of Volcanoes
186. 5-32 Jul 10 03 Nature: from Homer to Darwin
187. 5-33 Jul 17 03 The Apocalypse: Was It a Revelation?
6th Series 2003
188. 6- 1 Oct 2 03 James Clerk Maxwell: Great 19th Century Physicist (Simon Schaffer)
189. 6- 2 Oct 9 03 Bohemianism: A Life of Art, Freedom & Poverty (Hermione Lee, Virginia Nicholson)
190. 6- 3 Oct 16 03 The Schism: Between East and West in Christianity
191. 6- 4 Oct 23 03 Infinity: a Brief History (Robert Kaplan, Brian Clegg)
192. 6- 5 Oct 30 03 Robin Hood: the Greatest of English Myths
193. 6- 6 Nov 6 03 Sensation: the Best Sellers of the 19th Century
194. 6- 7 Nov 13 03 Duty: Concepts of Obligation
195. 6- 8 Nov 20 03 Ageing the Earth: a Journey in Geological Time
196. 6- 9 Nov 27 03 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Slaughter in Paris
197. 6-10 Dec 4 03 Wittgenstein: a Philosophy of Linguistics
198. 6-11 Dec 11 03 The Devil: a Brief Biography
199. 6-12 Dec 18 03 The Alphabet: Its Creation and Development
200. 6-13 Dec 26 03 Lamarck and Natural Selection: the Lamarckian Heresy (60 min.)
201. 6-14 Jan 29 04 Cryptography: the Secret History of Ciphers and Codes
202. 6-15 Feb 5 04 The Battle of Thermopylae: the Battle That Defined East & West
203. 6-16 Feb 12 04 The Sublime: Defining the State of Awe
204. 6-17 Feb 19 04 Rutherford: the Father of Nuclear Physics
205. 6-18 Feb 26 04 The Mughal Empire: the Glory of India
206. 6-19 Mar 4 04 Dreams: Is There a Science of Dreams?
207. 6-20 Mar 11 04 The Norse Gods: the Great Myths of Pagan Europe
208. 6-21 Mar 18 04 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (30 min.)
209. 6-22 Mar 25 04 Theories of Everything: Still the Holy Grail of Physics?
210. 6-23 Apr 1 04 China, the Warring States Period: the Fiery Beginnings of Chinese Civilisation
211. 6-24 Apr 8 04 The Fall: How Adam and Eve Affect Us All
212. 6-25 Apr 15 04 The Later Romantics: the World of Byron, Keats and Shelley
213. 6-26 Apr 22 04 Hysteria: the Normal State of Human Beings?
214. 6-27 Apr 29 04 Tea: an Empire in a Teacup
215. 6-28 May 6 04 Heroism: Do We Live in an Heroic Age?
216. 6-29 May 13 04 Zero: Everything About Nothing
217. 6-30 May 20 04 Toleration: from Medieval Intolerance to Religious Freedom
218. 6-31 May 27 04 Planets: the Astronomy of the 21st Century
219. 6-32 Jun 3 04 Babylon: the Great Forgotten Civilisation
220. 6-33 Jun 10 04 Empiricism: the English Philosophy?
221. 6-34 Jun 17 04 Renaissance Magic: the Great Passion of the Age
222. 6-35 Jun 24 04 George Washington and the American Revolution: the Most Significant Event in History
7th Series 2004
223. 7- 1 Sep 2 04 Pi: the Number That Doesn't Add Up (Ian Stewart, Robert Kaplan)
224. 7- 2 Sep 9 04 The Odyssey: Homer's Epic Tale of Odysseus' Return Home
225. 7- 3 Sep 16 04 Agincourt: the Real Facts Behind the Battle
226. 7- 4 Sep 23 04 The Origins of Life: How It All Began
227. 7- 5 Sep 30 04 Politeness: the Great 18th Century Craze
228. 7- 6 Oct 7 04 Jean-Paul Sartre: a Man Condemned to be Free
229. 7- 7 Oct 14 04 The Han Synthesis: Creating the Chinese Cosmos
230. 7- 8 Oct 21 04 Witchcraft: Reformation Europe Turned Upon Itself
231. 7- 9 Oct 28 04 Rhetoric: from the Original Sophists to Latter-Day Demagogues
232. 7-10 Nov 4 04 Electrickery: the Origins of Electricity
233. 7-11 Nov 11 04 Zoroastrianism: was the Religion of the Persian Empire the First Monotheism?
234. 7-12 Nov 18 04 Higgs Boson: the Search for the God Particle
235. 7-13 Nov 25 04 The Venerable Bede: the Father of English History
236. 7-14 Dec 2 04 Carl Gustav Jung: Discovering the Self
237. 7-15 Dec 9 04 Machiavelli & the Italian City States: High Politics & Low Cunning in Italian Renaissance
238. 7-16 Dec 16 04 The Second Law of Thermodynamics: the Most Important Thing You Will Ever Know
239. 7-17 Dec 23 04 Faust: the Original Pact with the Devil
240. 7-18 Dec 30 04 The Roman Republic: What Were Rome's Republican Ideals? (Tom Holland, Greg Woolf, Catherine Steele)
241. 7-19 Jan 6 05 The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II: Did His Killing Cause the Russian Revolution?
242. 7-20 Jan 13 05 The Mind/Body Problem: Does the Mind Rule the Body or the Body Rule the Mind?
243. 7-21 Feb 17 05 The Cambrian Explosion: the Big Bang of Evolutionary History
244. 7-22 Feb 24 05 Alchemy: Seeking the Perfection of All Things
245. 7-23 Mar 3 05 Stoicism: the Search for Inner Calm
246. 7-24 Mar 10 05 Modernist Utopias: the Original 21st Century
247. 7-25 Mar 17 05 Dark Energy: the Unknown Force Breaking the Universe Apart
248. 7-26 Mar 24 05 Angels: How They Got Their Wings
249. 7-27 Mar 31 05 John Ruskin: a Different Kind of Victorian
250. 7-28 Apr 7 05 Alfred and the Battle of Edington: Without Alfred, no England?
251. 7-29 Apr 14 05 Archaeology and Imperialism: Conquest of the Past
252. 7-30 Apr 21 05 The Aeneid: the Roman History of the World
253. 7-31 Apr 28 05 Perception and the Senses: How Do We See What We See?
254. 7-32 May 5 05 Abelard and Heloise: love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris
255. 7-33 May 19 05 Beauty: the Philosophy of Beauty
256. 7-34 May 26 05 The Terror: When Madame Guillotine Ruled France
257. 7-35 Jun 2 05 Renaissance Maths: the Birth of Modern Mathematics?
258. 7-36 Jun 9 05 The Scriblerus Club: the Satirists-in-Chief of the 18th Century
259. 7-37 Jun 16 05 Paganism in the Renaissance: How the Classical Gods Returned to the Christian Cities
260. 7-38 Jun 23 05 The KT Boundary: Did the Dinosaurs Burn out or Fade Away?
261. 7-39 Jun 30 05 Merlin: the Original Welsh Wizard
262. 7-40 Jul 7 05 Christopher Marlowe: Poet, Spy, Atheist, Murder Victim?
263. 7-41 Jul 14 05 Karl Marx: In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
8th Series 2005
264. 8- 1 Sep 29 05 Magnetism: an Attractive History
265. 8- 2 Oct 6 05 Field of the Cloth of Gold: a Renaissance Entente Cordiale
266. 8- 3 Oct 13 05 The Rise of the Mammals: Life in a Cold Climate
267. 8- 4 Oct 20 05 Cynicism: Bold and Populist, the History of a Shocking Philosophy
268. 8- 5 Oct 27 05 Samuel Johnson and His Circle: Life with the Professional Man of Letters
269. 8- 6 Nov 3 05 Asteroids: Celestial Bodies from the Beginning of Time
270. 8- 7 Nov 10 05 Greyfriars & Blackfriars: Philosophy, Evangelism & Fund-Raising in 13th Century Church
271. 8- 8 Nov 17 05 Pragmatism: a Practical Philosophy Fit for 20th Century America
272. 8- 9 Nov 24 05 The Graviton: the Quest for the Theoretical Gravity Particle
273. 8-10 Dec 1 05 Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Leviathan
274. 8-11 Dec 8 05 Artificial Intelligence: the Quest for a Machine That Can Think
275. 8-12 Dec 15 05 The Peterloo Massacre: Democratic Protest and Brutal Repression
276. 8-13 Dec 22 05 Heaven: a Journey Jhrough the Afterlife
277. 8-14 Dec 29 05 Aeschylus' Oresteia: the Birth of Tragedy
278. 8-15 Jan 5 06 The Oath: guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical World
279. 8-16 Jan 12 06 Prime Numbers: the Building Blocks of Mathematics
280. 8-17 Jan 19 06 Relativism: the Battle Against Transcendent Knowledge
281. 8-18 Jan 26 06 Seventeenth Century Print Culture: Piety, Populism and Political Protest
282. 8-19 Feb 2 06 The Abbasid Caliphs: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World
283. 8-20 Feb 9 06 Geoffrey Chaucer: the first Great English Poet
284. 8-21 Feb 16 06 Human Evolution: from Early Hominids to Homo Sapiens
285. 8-22 Feb 23 06 Catherine the Great: the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia
286. 8-23 Mar 2 06 Friendship: Thinking Philosophically About Our Close Companions
287. 8-24 Mar 9 06 Negative Numbers: How They Spread Across Civilizations
288. 8-25 Mar 16 06 Don Quixote: Spanish Romance and the First Novel
289. 8-26 Mar 23 06 The Royal Society: the First Club for Experimental Science
290. 8-27 Mar 30 06 The Carolingian Renaissance: the Revival of Early Medieval Western Europe
291. 8-28 Apr 6 06 Goethe: Formation of a German Cultural Icon
292. 8-29 Apr 13 06 The Oxford Movement: Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th Century (Simon Skinner, Sheridan Gilley, Frances Knight)
293. 8-30 Apr 20 06 The Search for Immunisation and the Battle Against Smallpox (Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Chris Dye, Nadja Durbach)
294. 8-31 Apr 27 06 The Great Exhibition: A Wonder of the Victorian World
295. 8-32 May 4 06 Astronomy and Empire: the Link Between Colonial Expansion and Scientific Discovery
296. 8-33 May 11 06 Faeries: Supernatural Creatures That Are Neither Gods Nor Humans
297. 8-34 May 18 06 John Stuart Mill: One of Most Influential Philosophers of the 19th Century
298. 8-35 May 25 06 Mathematics and Music: The Science Behind Sound and Composition
299. 8-36 Jun 1 06 The Heart: Its Anatomical and Cultural History
300. 8-37 Jun 8 06 Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Novel That Started the American Civil War
301. 8-38 Jun 15 06 Carbon: The Basis of Life
302. 8-39 Jun 22 06 The Spanish Inquisition: One of the Most Barbaric Episodes in European History
303. 8-40 Jun 29 06 Galaxies: Extra-Galactic Nebulae, Black Holes, Stars and Dark Matter
304. 8-41 Jul 6 06 Pastoral literature: The Romantic Idealisation of the Countryside
305. 8-42 Jul 13 06 Greek Comedy: Sing as You Revel and Rout
9th Series 2006
306. 9- 1 Sep 28 06 Alexander von Humboldt: the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist
307. 9- 2 Oct 5 06 Averroes: the battle between faith and reason
308. 9- 3 Oct 12 06 The Diet of Worms: Luther's stand against the Church
309. 9- 4 Oct 19 06 The Needham Question: did China lay the foundations of modern science?
310. 9- 5 Oct 26 06 The Encyclopedie: the great project of the Enlightenment
311. 9- 6 Nov 2 06 The Poincare Conjecture: how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe
312. 9- 7 Nov 9 06 Alexander Pope: "short is my date, but deathless my renown"
313. 9- 8 Nov 16 06 The Peasants' Revolt: a lasting legacy for popular uprising?
314. 9- 9 Nov 23 06 Altruism: how can evolutionary biology explain it?
315. 9-10 Nov 30 06 The Speed of Light: a cosmic speed limit?
316. 9-11 Dec 7 06 Anarchism: a question of authority?
317. 9-12 Dec 14 06 Indian Maths: laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number
318. 9-13 Dec 21 06 Hell: its representation through the ages
319. 9-14 Dec 28 06 The Siege of Constantinople: the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire
320. 9-15 Jan 4 07 Borges: the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer
321. 9-16 Jan 11 07 Mars: the search for life on the Red Planet
322. 9-17 Jan 18 07 The Jesuits: the school masters of Europe
323. 9-18 Jan 25 07 Archimedes: the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments
324. 9-19 Feb 1 07 Genghis Khan: founder of one of world's largest ever land-based empires
325. 9-20 Feb 8 07 Karl Popper: his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science
326. 9-21 Feb 15 07 Heart of Darkness: one of the most influential novels of the 20th century
327. 9-22 Feb 22 07 William Wilberforce: the man and his legacy
328. 9-23 Mar 1 07 The History of Optics: from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world
329. 9-24 Mar 8 07 Microbiology: the story of the invisible masters of the universe
330. 9-25 Mar 15 07 Epistolary Literature: great novels of fictional letters
331. 9-26 Mar 22 07 Bismarck: the Iron Chancellor
332. 9-27 Mar 29 07 Anaesthetics: from ether frolics to pain-free surgery
333. 9-28 Apr 5 07 St Hilda: the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby
334. 9-29 Apr 12 07 Opium Wars: a conflict that was to affect British-Chinese relations for generations
335. 9-30 Apr 19 07 Symmetry: the pattern at the heart of our physical world
336. 9-31 Apr 26 07 Greek and Roman Love Poetry: the pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus
337. 9-32 May 3 07 Spinoza: believed that God and Nature were the same thing
338. 9-33 May 10 07 Victorian Pessimism: fear and loathing in the late 19th century
339. 9-34 May 17 07 Gravitational Waves: a new window on the universe
340. 9-35 May 24 07 The Siege of Orleans: did Joan of Arc really rescue France?
341. 9-36 May 31 07 Ockham's Razor: cutting medieval philosophy down to size
342. 9-37 Jun 7 07 Siegfried Sassoon: the poet who survived
343. 9-38 Jun 14 07 Renaissance Astrology: "we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them"
344. 9-39 Jun 21 07 Common Sense Philosophy: "there is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"
345. 9-40 Jun 28 07 The Permian-Triassic Boundary: when 95% of life was killed off
346. 9-41 Jul 5 07 The Pilgrim Fathers: the original American dream
347. 9-42 Jul 12 07 The Trial of Madame Bovary: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!"
10th Series 2007 45 min. with 30 min. repeats
348. 10- 1 Sep 27 07 Socrates - the man and the myth
349. 10- 2 Oct 4 07 Antimatter - where has it all gone?
350. 10- 3 Oct 11 07 The Divine Right of Kings - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"
351. 10- 4 Oct 18 07 The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling
352. 10- 5 Oct 25 07 Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain
353. 10- 6 Nov 1 07 Guilt - what is it good for?
354. 10- 7 Nov 8 07 Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
355. 10- 8 Nov 15 07 The Discovery of Oxygen - feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry
356. 10- 9 Nov 22 07 The Prelude - the greatest poem in the English language?
357. 10-10 Nov 29 07 The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
358. 10-11 Dec 6 07 Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life
359. 10-12 Dec 13 07 The Sassanian Empire - in the shadow of ancient Persia
360. 10-13 Dec 20 07 The Four Humours - yellow bile, blood, choler, phlegm in the original theory of everything
361. 10-14 Dec 27 07 The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
362. 10-15 Jan 3 08 Albert Camus - rebel with a cause
363. 10-16 Jan 10 08 The Charge of the Light Brigade - "all in valley of death rode the six hundred"
364. 10-17 Jan 17 08 The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal
365. 10-18 Jan 24 08 Plate Tectonics - the day the earth moved
366. 10-19 Jan 31 08 The Court of Rudolf II - the lost powerhouse of renaissance ideas
367. 10-20 Feb 7 08 The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the origins of society
368. 10-21 Feb 14 08 The Statue of Liberty - From France with love ...
369. 10-22 Feb 21 08 The Multiverse - the universe is not enough
370. 10-23 Feb 28 08 King Lear - Shakespeare's finest fairy tale
371. 10-24 Mar 8 08 Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age
372. 10-25 Mar 13 08 The Greek Myths - soap opera of the gods
373. 10-26 Mar 20 08 Søren Kierkegaard - fear and trembling in Copenhagen
374. 10-27 Mar 27 08 The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins
375. 10-28 Apr 3 08 Newton's Laws of Motion - they put a man on the moon
376. 10-29 Apr 10 08 The Norman Yoke - 1067 and all that
377. 10-30 Apr 17 08 Yeats and Irish Politics - "a terrible beauty is born"
378. 10-31 Apr 24 08 Materialism - are we living in a material world?
379. 10-32 May 1 08 The Enclosures - dividing the country
380. 10-33 May 8 08 The Brain: A History - food for thought
381. 10-34 May 15 08 The Library at Nineveh - treasure trove of Assyrian ideas
382. 10-35 May 22 08 The Black Death - a plague on all our houses
383. 10-36 May 29 08 Probability - heads or tails?
384. 10-37 Jun 5 08 Trofim Lysenko - Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist
385. 10-38 Jun 12 08 The Riddle of the Sands - how Britain learned to fear the Germans
386. 10-39 Jun 19 08 The Music of the Spheres - a dose of heavenly harmonies
387. 10-40 Jun 26 08 The Arab Conquests - the seventh century new world order
388 10-41 Jul 3 08 The Metaphysical Poets - sex and death in the seventeenth century
389. 10-42 Jul 10 08 Tacitus - the Decadence of Rome