In Our Time(a Titles & Guest Stars Guide)
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| aired from: Oct 1998 to: |
650+ eps | BBC Radio 4 (UK) | 45 min |
In Our Time(a Titles & Guest Stars Guide)
by tvcom_contribLast updated: |
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| aired from: Oct 1998 to: |
650+ eps | BBC Radio 4 (UK) | 45 min |
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Episode # Air Date Titles
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1st series 1998 - 30 minutes
001. 01-01 Oct 15 98 War in 20th Century - ideas influencing C20th human rights & warfare
002. 01-02 Oct 22 98 Politics in 20th Century - politics and morality today
003. 01-03 Oct 29 98 Science's Revelations - has science ruined poetic wonder at world?
004. 01-04 Nov 5 98 Science in 20th Century - how perceptions science changed in C20th
005. 01-05 Nov 12 98 The City in 20th Century - innovative developments of the city in C20th
006. 01-06 Nov 19 98 The Brain and Consciousness - memory and functioning of the brain
007. 01-07 Nov 26 98 Work in 20th Century - changing ideas about function of work in C20th
008. 01-08 Dec 3 98 History's Relevance in 20th Century - how relevant is study of history?
009. 01-09 Dec 10 98 Cultural Rights in 20th Century - impact globalisation on human rights
010. 01-10 Dec 17 98 The American Century - how legitimate call C20th American century?
011. 01-11 Dec 24 98 Neuroscience in 20th Century - what know and don't know about brain
012. 01-12 Dec 31 98 British Empire's Legacy - impact Britain's colonial past on identity now
013. 01-13 Jan 7 99 Feminish - the development of the empowerment of women in C20th
014. 01-14 Jan 14 99 Genetic Engineering - implications of developments in genetic eng
015. 01-15 Jan 21 99 Modern Culture - the definition and state of modern culture in C20th
016. 01-16 Jan 28 99 Ageing - ethical, economic & biological implications of living longer
017. 01-17 Feb 4 99 Psychoanalysis & its Legacy - relevance of psychoanalysis end C20th
018. 01-18 Feb 11 99 Language and the Mind - is language formation innate or cultural?
019. 01-19 Feb 18 99 Space in Religion & Science - cyberspace introduced a new concept
020. 01-20 Feb 25 99 The Avant Garde's Decline & Fall in C20 - history/legacy a/g painting
021. 01-21 Mar 4 99 Shakespeare & Literary Criticism - enduring popular/academic appeal
022. 01-22 Mar 11 99 History as Science - importance geography & ecology in world history
023. 01-23 Mar 18 99 Animal Experiments & Rights - role of animals in search for knowledge
024. 01-24 Mar 25 99 Architecture in the 20th Century - what does it say about the age?
025. 01-25 Apr 1 99 Good and Evil - how judge good & evil in modern western civilisation
026. 01-26 Apr 8 99 Writing & Political Oppression - do writers have a political role today?
027. 01-27 Apr 15 99 Evolution - future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology
028. 01-28 Apr 22 99 Fundamentalism - roots & consequences of religious fundamentalism
029. 01-29 Apr 29 99 Artificial Intelligence - are we near to the thinking, feeling computer?
030. 01-30 May 6 99 Mathematics - importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences
031. 01-31 May 13 99 Multiculturalism - twentieth century's vast population and cultural shifts
032. 01-32 May 20 99 The Universe's Origins - hist of what we know about origins of universe
033. 01-33 May 27 99 Memory and Culture - how our ways of remembering have changed
034. 01-34 Jun 3 99 Just War - where the idea of a just war originated & if it can still exist
035. 01-35 Jun 10 99 The Monarchy - enduring strengths & current role of British monarchy
036. 01-36 Jun 17 99 The Great Disruption - C20th shift from industrial to information society
037. 01-37 Jun 24 99 Capitalism - hist of capitalism from Marx to collapse of Communism
038. 01-38 Jul 1 99 Intelligence - the origins, manifestations & possibilities of intelligence
039. 01-39 Jul 8 99 Africa - the roots of Africa's current political and social crises
040. 01-40 Jul 15 99 Truth, Lies & Fiction - does it matter if memoirs aren't entirely truthful?
041. 01-41 Jul 22 99 Pain - the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain
2nd series 1999 - 30 minutes, except where stated
042. 02-01 Sep 23 99 Genetic Determinism - the part genes play in our personalities
043. 02-02 Sep 30 99 Maths and Storytelling - is it possible apply maths/logic to literature?
044. 02-03 Oct 7 99 Utopia - why we are as enthralled as every by the idea of a Utopia
045. 02-04 Oct 14 99 The Nation State - is it appropriate to think of the UK as a nation?
046. 02-05 Oct 21 99 The Individual - concept of the individual from Renaissance to today
047. 02-06 Oct 28 99 Atrocity in the 20th Century - C20th's widespread & chilling inhumanity
048. 02-07 Nov 4 99 Education - the history and the modern purpose of education
049. 02-08 Nov 11 99 The Novel - the development and the future of the novel
050. 02-09 Nov 18 99 Progress - has mankind made as much moral as material progress?
051. 02-10 Nov 25 99 Consciousness - why ideas about it preoccupy philosophers/scientists
052. 02-11 Dec 2 99 Tragedy - does ancient genre of tragedy have a place in our own time?
053. 02-12 Dec 9 99 Childhood - how perceptions of childhood changed over last 100 years
054. 02-13 Dec 16 99 Medical Ethics - technological advances and ethics modern medicine
055. 02-14 Dec 23 99 Prayer - the purpose and effect of prayer
056. 02-15 Dec 30 99 Time - history of mankind's attempt to understand the nature of time
057. 02-16 Jan 6 00 Climate Change - predictions/solutions global warming, rising sea level
058. 02-17 Jan 13 00 Information Technology - social/economic consequence info revolution
059. 02-18 Jan 20 00 Masculinity in Literature - changing ideals of masculinity C20 literature
060. 02-19 Jan 27 00 Economic Rights - the relationship between democracy and capitalism
061. 02-20 Feb 3 00 Republicanism - development English republicanism Cromwell to today
062. 02-21 Feb 10 00 Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment - sci legacy of Goethe
063. 02-22 Feb 17 00 Reading - history of the politics, practice and process of reading
064. 02-23 Feb 24 00 Grand Unified Theory - C20 physics pursuit ultimate theory everything
065. 02-24 Mar 2 00 Metamorphosis - the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid's work
066. 02-25 Mar 9 00 The Age of Doubt - spread of religious doubt over last three centuries
067. 02-26 Mar 16 00 Lenin - what drove the Soviet leader Lenin and enabled his success
068. 02-27 Mar 23 00 Materialism & Consumer - development/future of material culture
069. 02-28 Mar 30 00 History & Understanding Past - can we predict future from past?
070. 02-29 Apr 6 00 The Natural Order - science taxonomy, classification natural world
071. 02-30 Apr 13 00 New Wars - are we in a new era in the history of modern warfare?
072. 02-31 Apr 20 00 Englishness - the characteristics of the English identity
073. 02-32 Apr 27 00 Human Origins - the evolution of the human species
074. 02-33 May 4 00 Death - the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death
075. 02-34 May 11 00 Shakespeare's Work - why Shakespeare's work is universal
076. 02-35 May 18 00 War of the Roses - C15th wars of royal houses of Lancaster and York
077. 02-36 May 25 00 Chemical Elements - chemistry understanding irreducible substances
078. 02-37 Jun 1 00 The American Ideal - ideals underwriting idealism of America (45 mins)
079. 02-38 Jun 8 00 The Renaissance - modern claims re culture of Renaissance (45 mins)
080. 02-39 Jun 15 00 Inspiration and Genius - is genius born or made?
081. 02-40 Jun 22 00 Biography - why public is fascinated by private lives of individuals
082. 02-41 Jun 29 00 Imagination & Consciousness - how neuroscience explains (45 mins)
3rd series 2000 - 30 or 45 minutes, as stated
083. 03-01 Sep 28 00 London - history from neolithic origin to today's digitalised capital (45')
084. 03-02 Oct 5 00 Hitler in History - Hitler and Nazis via historiographical theories (45')
085. 03-03 Oct 12 00 The Romantics - the ideals, exponents & legacy of Romanticism (45')
086. 03-04 Oct 19 00 Laws of Nature - are truths of physics true in all areas existence? (30')
087. 03-05 Oct 26 00 The Tudor State - reshaping England as modern state by Tudors (45')
088. 03-06 Nov 2 00 Evolutionary Psychology - the basis and context for its ideas (30')
089. 03-07 Nov 9 00 Psychoanalysis & Literature - Freudian analysis in literature (45')
090. 03-08 Nov 16 00 Nihilism - history of the philosophy that claims truths are illusory (30')
091. 03-09 Jan 4 01 Gothic - origins and significance of the C18th Gothic movement (30)
092. 03-10 Jan 11 01 Mathematics and Platonism - is maths invention or discovery? (30')
093. 03-11 Jan 18 01 The Enlightenment in Britain - role of British thinkers (45')
094. 03-12 Jan 25 01 Science and Religion - its areas of conflict and agreement (45')
095. 03-13 Feb 1 01 Imperial Science - agriculture or trade drive C19 UK imperialism? (30')
096. 03-14 Feb 8 01 Humanism - history/legacy classical humanism, invented Cicero (30')
097. 03-15 Feb 15 01 The Restoration - reign Charles II & consequences of Restoration (30')
098. 03-16 Feb 22 01 Quantum Gravity - C20th attempts to understand quantum world (30')
099. 03-17 Mar 1 01 Money - are economic factors really behind all historical events? (30')
100. 03-18 Mar 15 01 Shakespeare's Life - the enigma of the life William Shakespeare (30')
101. 03-19 Mar 22 01 Fossils - their significance in history and impact of techniques (45')
102. 03-20 Mar 29 01 Philosophy of Love - western understanding of it since Plato (30')
103. 03-21 Apr 5 01 Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th Century - causes and events (30')
104. 03-22 Apr 12 01 Black Holes - the ghosts of massive stars (30')
105. 03-23 Apr 19 01 Glorious Revolution - were events of 1688 glorious/revolutionary? (45')
106. 03-24 Apr 26 01 Literary Modernism - movement embracing Joyce Lawrence Woolf (45')
107. 03-25 May 3 01 Evil - the notion of evil in western philosophy (30')
108. 03-28 Jun 14 01 French Revolution's Legacy - impact on European culture/politics (30')
109. 03-29 Jun 21 01 The Sonnet - the most enduring form in the poet's armoury (30')
110. 03-30 Jun 28 01 Existentialism - the C20th philosophy of existentialism (30')
111. 03-31 Jul 5 01 The Earth's Origins - the origins of the earth (30')
112. 03-32 Jul 12 01 Dickens - achievement/legacy C19 literary giant Charles Dickens (30')
113. 03-33 Jul 19 01 Byzantium - culture, history & legacy eastern Byzantine Empire (45')
4th series 2001 - 45 minutes, except where stated
114. 04-01 Oct 18 01 Democracy - origins of most cherished form government in world (30')
115. 04-02 Oct 25 01 Napoleon & Wellington - comparative history 2 titans C19 history (30')
116. 04-03 Nov 1 01 Confucius - the Chinese philosophy of Confucianism (30')
117. 04-04 Nov 8 01 The British Empire - the ethos and legacy of the British Empire (30')
118. 04-05 Nov 15 01 Surrealism - the art of the unconscious
119. 04-06 Nov 22 01 Oceanography - what sci reveals & what don't know about sea (30')
120. 04-07 Nov 29 01 Third Crusade - the highs and lows of the third crusade (30')
121. 04-08 Dec 6 01 Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the aesthetes (30')
122. 04-09 Dec 13 01 Genetics - the development of the science of genetics (30')
123. 04-10 Dec 20 01 Rome & European Civilisation - role Rome played Euro civilisation (30')
124. 04-11 Dec 27 01 Food - cultural history of food in Modern Europe since Renaissance
125. 04-12 Jan 3 02 Sensibility - the 18th century literary cult of sensibility (30')
126. 04-13 Jan 10 02 Nuclear Physics - C20 development nuclear physics as science (30')
127. 04-14 Jan 17 02 Catharism - a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy
128. 04-15 Jan 24 02 Happiness - does 'happiness' mean living life of pleasure or virtue (30')
129. 04-16 Jan 31 02 Yeats & Mysticism - strange & mystical world of Irish poet Yeats (30')
130. 04-17 Feb 7 02 The Universe's Shape - the shape, size and topology of universe (30')
131. 04-18 Feb 14 02 Anatomy - 2000yr history of man's quest understand human body (30')
132. 04-19 Feb 21 02 What Were the Celts in Britain Really Like? (30')
133. 04-20 Feb 28 02 Virtue - Is it Derived from Reason?
134. 04-21 Mar 7 02 John Milton, Poet or Politician? (30')
135. 04-22 Mar 14 02 Buddhism - Why Has It Captured the Spirit of Our Age?
136. 04-23 Mar 21 02 Marriage - Its Various Forms and the Role of the State
137. 04-24 Mar 28 02 The Artist - A Special Kind of Human Being?
138. 04-25 Apr 4 02 ET - New Life Within Our Solar System
139. 04-26 Apr 11 02 Bohemia - What Did It Mean to Be Bohemian?
140. 04-27 Apr 25 02 Tolstoy - The Influence of the Russian Novel
141. 04-28 May 2 02 Schrodinger's Cat - Quantum Mechanics
142. 04-29 May 9 02 The Examined Life - Is an Unexamined Life Worth Living?
143. 04-30 May 16 02 Chaos Theory - Is the Universe Chaotic or Orderly?
144. 04-31 May 23 02 History of Drugs - Their Role in Medicine and the Arts
145. 04-32 May 30 02 The Grand Tour - What Drove This Desire for Travel?
146. 04-33 Jun 6 02 The Soul - The Key to Our Individuality as Humans?
147. 04-34 Jun 13 02 The American West - Was It an "Experiment of Liberty"?
148. 04-35 Jun 20 02 Richard Wagner - His Influence on the German Spirit
149. 04-36 Jun 27 02 Cultural Imperialism - Should We Try to Prevent It?
150. 04-37 Jul 4 02 Freedom - A Principle Worth Fighting and Dying For?
151. 04-38 Jul 11 02 Psychoanalysis - Do People Crave Dictatorship?
152. 04-39 Jul 18 02 The Role of History & Heritage in Formation of British National Identity
5th series 2002 - 45 minutes
153. 05-01 Oct 17 02 Slavery and empire - were Britons also captives?
154. 05-02 Oct 24 02 The scientist in history - missionary or monster?
155. 05-03 Oct 31 02 Architecture and power - imagery of imperialism
156. 05-04 Nov 7 02 Human Nature - innate or nurtured?
157. 05-05 Nov 14 02 Victorian Realism - how real?
158. 05-06 Nov 21 02 Cordoba and Muslim Spain - a culture of tolerance?
159. 05-07 Nov 28 02 Imagination - just what is it?
160. 05-08 Dec 5 02 The Scottish Enlightenment - how enlightened?
161. 05-09 Dec 12 02 Disease - the fight against diseases and plagues
162. 05-10 Dec 19 02 The Calendar - a history of the Calendar
163. 05-11 Feb 6 03 The Epic - from Homer to Joyce
164. 05-12 Feb 13 03 Chance and Design in Evolution - Design in Nature
165. 05-13 Feb 20 03 The Lindisfarne Gospels - unifying Christianity in Britain
166. 05-14 Feb 27 03 The Aztecs - looking behind the myths
167. 05-15 Mar 6 03 Meteorology - why does it still fascinate us?
168. 05-16 Mar 13 03 Redemption - the concept of salvation
169. 05-17 Mar 20 03 Originality - is it just a romantic notion?
170. 05-18 Mar 27 03 Supernovas - the life cycle of stars
171. 05-19 Apr 3 03 The Spanish Civil War - causes and legacy
172. 05-20 Apr 17 03 Proust - his life and work
173. 05-21 Apr 24 03 Youth - from Adonis to James Dean
174. 05-22 May 1 03 Roman Britain - the effects of 400 years of occupation
175. 05-23 May 8 03 The Jacobite Rebellion - could it have succeeded?
176. 05-24 May 15 03 The Holy Grail - just a medieval myth?
177. 05-25 May 22 03 Blood - its religious, medical and moral significance
178. 05-26 May 29 03 Memory - and the brain
179. 05-27 Jun 5 03 The Lunar Society - scientific ferment 200 years ago
180. 05-28 Jun 12 03 The Art of War - maintaining the objective?
181. 05-29 Jun 19 03 The Aristocracy - how the ruling class survives
182. 05-30 Jun 26 03 The East India Co - a corporate route to Empire
183. 05-31 Jul 3 03 Vulcanology - significance of volcanoes
184. 05-32 Jul 10 03 Nature - from Homer to Darwin
185. 05-33 Jul 17 03 The Apocalypse - was it a revelation?
6th series 2003 - 45 minutes (60 minutes for Dec 26)
186. 06-01 Oct 2 03 James Clerk Maxwell - great 19th century physicist
187. 06-02 Oct 9 03 Bohemianism - a life of art, freedom & poverty
188. 06-03 Oct 16 03 The Schism - between East and West in Christianity
189. 06-04 Oct 23 03 Infinity - a brief history
190. 06-05 Oct 30 03 Robin Hood - the greatest of English myths
191. 06-06 Nov 6 03 Sensation- the best sellers of the 19th century
192. 06-07 Nov 13 03 Duty - concepts of obligation
193. 06-08 Nov 20 03 Ageing the Earth - a journey in geological time
194. 06-09 Nov 27 03 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre - slaughter in Paris
195. 06-10 Dec 4 03 Wittgenstein - a philosophy of linguistics
196. 06-11 Dec 11 03 The Devil - a brief biography
197. 06-12 Dec 18 03 The Alphabet - its creation and development
198. 06-13 Dec 26 03 Lamarck & Natural Selection - Lamarckian Heresy (60 min) [Fr not Th]
199. 06-14 Jan 29 04 Cryptography - secret history of ciphers and codes
200. 06-15 Feb 5 04 The Battle of Thermopylae - battle that defined East & West
201. 06-16 Feb 12 04 The Sublime - defining the state of awe
202. 06-17 Feb 19 04 Rutherford - the father of nuclear physics
203. 06-18 Feb 26 04 The Mughal Empire - the glory of India
204. 06-19 Mar 4 04 Dreams - is there a science of dreams?
205. 06-20 Mar 11 04 The Norse Gods - the great myths of pagan Europe
206. 06-21 Mar 18 04 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
207. 06-22 Mar 25 04 Theories of Everything - still the holy grail of physics?
208. 06-23 Apr 1 04 China - Warring States Period - fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation
209. 06-24 Apr 8 04 The Fall - how Adam and Eve affect us all
210. 06-25 Apr 15 04 The Later Romantics - the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley
211. 06-26 Apr 22 04 Hysteria - the normal state of human beings?
212. 06-27 Apr 29 04 Tea - an empire in a teacup
213. 06-28 May 6 04 Heroism - do we live in an heroic age?
214. 06-29 May 13 04 Zero - everything about nothing
215. 06-30 May 20 04 Toleration - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom
216. 06-31 May 27 04 Planets - the astronomy of the 21st century
217. 06-32 Jun 3 04 Babylon - the great forgotten civilisation
218. 06-33 Jun 10 04 Empiricism - the English philosophy?
219. 06-34 Jun 17 04 Renaissance Magic - the great passion of the age
220. 06-35 Jun 24 04 G Washington & American Revolution - most significant event in hist
7th series 2004 - 45 minutes
221. 07-01 Sep 2 04 Pi - the number that doesn't add up
222. 07-02 Sep 9 04 The Odyssey - Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home
223. 07-03 Sep 16 04 Agincourt - the real facts behind the battle
224. 07-04 Sep 23 04 The Origins of Life - how it all began
225. 07-05 Sep 30 04 Politeness - the great 18th century craze
226. 07-06 Oct 7 04 Jean-Paul Sartre - a man condemned to be free
227. 07-07 Oct 14 04 The Han Synthesis - creating the Chinese cosmos
228. 07-08 Oct 14 04 Witchcraft - Reformation Europe turned upon itself
229. 07-09 Oct 28 04 Rhetoric - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues
230. 07-10 Nov 4 04 Electrickery - the origins of electricity
231. 07-11 Nov 11 04 Zoroastrianism - was religion of Persian Empire the first monotheism?
232. 07-12 Nov 18 04 Higgs Boson - the search for the God particle
233. 07-13 Nov 25 04 The Venerable Bede - the father of English history
234. 07-14 Dec 2 04 Carl Gustav Jung - Discovering the Self
235. 07-15 Dec 9 04 Machiavelli & I City States - high pol's, low cunning in It Renaissance
236. 07-16 Dec 16 04 Second Law Thermodynamics - most important thing you'll ever know
237. 07-17 Dec 23 04 Faust - the original pact with the Devil
238. 07-18 Dec 30 04 The Roman Republic - what were Rome's republican ideals?
239. 07-19 Jan 6 05 Assassination Tsar Alexander II - did his killing cause Russian Rev'n?
240. 07-20 Jan 13 05 The Mind/Body Problem - does mind rule body or body rule mind?
241. 07-21 Feb 17 05 The Cambrian Explosion - the big bang of evolutionary history
242. 07-22 Feb 24 05 Alchemy - seeking the perfection of all things
243. 07-23 Mar 3 05 Stoicism - the search for inner calm
244. 07-24 Mar 10 05 Modernist Utopias - the original 21st century
245. 07-25 Mar 17 05 Dark Energy - the unknown force breaking the universe apart
246. 07-26 Mar 24 05 Angels - how they got their wings
247. 07-27 Mar 31 05 John Ruskin - a different kind of Victorian
248. 07-28 Apr 7 05 Alfred and the Battle of Edington - without Alfred, no England?
249. 07-29 Apr 14 05 Archaeology and Imperialism - conquest of the past
250. 07-30 Apr 21 05 The Aeneid - the Roman history of the world
251. 07-31 Apr 28 05 Perception and the Senses - how do we see what we see?
252. 07-32 May 5 05 Abelard and Heloise - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris
253. 07-33 May 19 05 Beauty - the philosophy of beauty
254. 07-34 May 26 05 The Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France
255. 07-35 Jun 2 05 Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics?
256. 07-36 Jun 9 05 The Scriblerus Club - the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century
257. 07-37 Jun 16 05 Paganism in Renaissance - how class gods returned Christian cities
258. 07-38 Jun 23 05 The KT Boundary - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away?
259. 07-39 Jun 30 05 Merlin - the original Welsh wizard
260. 07-40 Jul 7 05 Christopher Marlowe - poet, spy, atheist, murder victim?
261. 07-41 Jul 14 05 Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
8th series 2005 - 45 minutes
262. 08-01 Sep 29 05 Magnetism - an attractive history
263. 08-02 Oct 5 05 Field of the Cloth of Gold - a Renaissance entente cordiale
264. 08-03 Oct 13 05 The Rise of the Mammals - life in a cold climate
265. 08-04 Oct 20 05 Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy
266. 08-05 Oct 27 05 Samuel Johnson and His Circle - life with professional man of letters
267. 08-06 Nov 3 05 Asteroids - celestial bodies from the beginning of time
268. 08-07 Nov 10 05 Greyfriars & Blackfriars - phil, evangelism & fund-raising 13thC Church
269. 08-08 Nov 17 05 Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
270. 08-09 Nov 24 05 The Graviton - the quest for the theoretical gravity particle
271. 08-10 Dec 1 05 Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'
272. 08-11 Dec 8 05 Artificial Intelligence - the quest for a machine that can think
273. 08-12 Dec 15 05 The Peterloo Massacre - democratic protest and brutal repression
274. 08-13 Dec 22 05 Heaven - a journey through the afterlife
275. 08-14 Dec 29 05 Aeschylus' Oresteia - the birth of tragedy
276. 08-15 Jan 5 06 The Oath - guaranteeing law, government and army in Classical world
277. 08-16 Jan 12 06 Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics
278. 08-17 Jan 19 06 Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
279. 08-18 Jan 26 06 Seventeenth Century Print Culture - piety, populism & political protest
280. 08-19 Feb 2 06 The Abbasid Caliphs - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world
281. 08-20 Feb 9 06 Geoffrey Chaucer - the first Great English Poet
282. 08-21 Feb 16 06 Human Evolution - from early hominids to Homo sapiens
283. 08-22 Feb 23 06 Catherine the Great - Enlightened Despot Eighteenth Century Russia
284. 08-23 Mar 2 06 Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions
285. 08-24 Mar 9 06 Negative Numbers - how they spread across civilisations
286. 08-25 Mar 16 06 Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel
287. 08-26 Mar 23 06 The Royal Society - the first club for experimental science
288. 08-27 Mar 30 06 The Carolingian Renaissance - revival early medieval western Europe
289. 08-28 Apr 6 06 Goethe - formation of a German cultural icon
290. 08-29 Apr 13 06 The Oxford Movement - Anglicans & Catholics in the 19th century
291. 08-30 Apr 20 06 The Search for immunisation - and the battle against smallpox
292. 08-31 Apr 27 06 The Great Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world
293. 08-32 May 4 06 Astronomy & Empire - link between colonial expansion & sci discovery
294. 08-33 May 11 06 Faeries - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans
295. 08-34 May 18 06 John Stuart Mill - one of most influential philosophers of 19th century
296. 08-35 May 25 06 Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition
297. 08-36 Jun 1 06 The Heart - its anatomical and cultural history
298. 08-37 Jun 8 06 Uncle Tom's Cabin - the novel that started the American Civil War
299. 08-38 Jun 15 06 Carbon - the basis of life
300. 08-39 Jun 22 06 Spanish Inquisition - one of most barbaric episodes European history
301. 08-40 Jun 29 06 "Galaxies - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter"
302. 08-41 Jul 6 06 Pastoral literature - the romantic idealisation of the countryside
303. 08-42 Jul 13 06 Greek Comedy - sing as you revel and rout
9th series 2006 - 45 minutes
304. 09-01 Sep 28 06 Alexander von Humboldt - remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist
305. 09-02 Oct 5 06 Averroes - the battle between faith and reason
306. 09-03 Oct 12 06 The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church
307. 09-04 Oct 19 06 The Needham Question - did China lay foundations modern science?
308. 09-05 Oct 26 06 The Encyclopedie - the great project of the Enlightenment
309. 09-06 Nov 2 06 The Poincare Conjecture - how C19 math'n changed think shape univ
310. 09-07 Nov 9 06 Alexander Pope - "short is my date, but deathless my renown"
311. 09-08 Nov 16 06 The Peasants' Revolt - a lasting legacy for popular uprising?
312. 09-09 Nov 23 06 Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it?
313. 09-10 Nov 30 06 The Speed of Light - a cosmic speed limit?
314. 09-11 Dec 7 06 Anarchism - a question of authority?
315. 09-12 Dec 14 06 Indian Maths - laying foundations modern numerals & zero as number
316. 09-13 Dec 21 06 Hell - its representation through the ages
317. 09-14 Dec 28 06 The Siege of Constantinople - end of 1000 years of Byzantine Empire
318. 09-15 Jan 4 07 Borges - the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer
319. 09-16 Jan 11 07 Mars - the search for life on the Red Planet
320. 09-17 Jan 18 07 The Jesuits - the school masters of Europe
321. 09-18 Jan 25 07 Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments
322. 09-19 Feb 1 07 Genghis Khan - founder of world's largest ever land-based empires
323. 09-20 Feb 8 07 Karl Popper - his ideas challenged our approach philosophy of science
324. 09-21 Feb 15 07 Heart of Darkness - one of the most influential novels of 20th century
325. 09-22 Feb 22 07 William Wilberforce - the man and his legacy
326. 09-23 Mar 1 07 The History of Optics - telescopes to microscopes, new way see world
327. 09-24 Mar 8 07 Microbiology - the story of the invisible masters of the universe
328. 09-25 Mar 15 07 Epistolary Literature - great novels of fictional letters
329. 09-26 Mar 22 07 Bismarck - the Iron Chancellor
330. 09-27 Mar 29 07 Anaesthetics - from ether frolics to pain-free surgery
331. 09-28 Apr 5 07 St Hilda - the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby
332. 09-29 Apr 12 07 Opium Wars - conflict affect British-Chinese relations for generations
333. 09-30 Apr 19 07 Symmetry - the pattern at the heart of our physical world
334. 09-31 Apr 26 07 Greek and Roman Love Poetry - pursuit Beloved Sappho to Catullus
335. 09-32 May 3 07 Spinoza - believed that God and Nature were the same thing
336. 09-33 May 10 07 Victorian Pessimism - fear and loathing in the late 19th century
337. 09-34 May 17 07 Gravitational Waves - a new window on the universe
338. 09-35 May 24 07 The Siege of Orleans - did Joan of Arc really rescue France?
339. 09-36 May 31 07 Ockham's Razor - cutting medieval philosophy down to size
340. 09-37 Jun 7 07 Siegfried Sassoon - the poet who survived
341. 09-38 Jun 14 07 Renaissance Astrology - "stars' tennis balls, struck please them"
342. 09-39 Jun 21 07 Common Sense Philosophy - "no statement so absurd no phil make"
343. 09-40 Jun 28 07 The Permian-Triassic Boundary - when 95% of life was killed off
344. 09-41 Jul 5 07 The Pilgrim Fathers - the original American dream
345. 09-42 Jul 12 07 The Trial of Madame Bovary - "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!"
10th series 2007 - 45 minutes
346. 10-01 Sep 27 07 Socrates - the man and the myth
347. 10-02 Oct 4 07 Antimatter - where has it all gone?
348. 10-03 Oct 11 07 The Divine Right of Kings - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"
349. 10-04 Oct 18 07 The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling
350. 10-05 Oct 25 07 Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Britain
351. 10-06 Nov 1 07 Guilt - what is it good for?
352. 10-07 Nov 8 07 Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
353. 10-08 Nov 15 07 Discovery of Oxygen - feuds & revolutions at birth of modern chemistry
354. 10-09 Nov 22 07 The Prelude - the greatest poem in the English language?
355. 10-10 Nov 29 07 The Fibonacci Sequence - the numbers in nature
356. 10-11 Dec 6 07 Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life
357. 10-12 Dec 13 07 The Sassanian Empire - in the shadow of ancient Persia
358. 10-13 Dec 20 07 Four Humours - yellow bile,blood,choler,phlegm in orig theory everyth'g
359. 10-14 Dec 27 07 The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God
360. 10-15 Jan 3 08 Albert Camus - rebel with a cause
361. 10-16 Jan 10 08 "Charge of Light Brigade - ""all in valley of death rode the six hundred"""
362. 10-17 Jan 17 08 The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal
363. 10-18 Jan 24 08 Plate Tectonics - the day the earth moved
364. 10-19 Jan 31 08 The Court of Rudolf II - the lost powerhouse of renaissance ideas
365. 10-20 Feb 7 08 The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau & origins of society
366. 10-21 Feb 14 08 The Statue of Liberty - From France with love . . .
367. 10-22 Feb 21 08 The Multiverse - the universe is not enough
368. 10-23 Feb 28 08 King Lear - Shakespeare's finest fairy tale
369. 10-24 Mar 6 08 Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age
370. 10-25 Mar 13 08 The Greek Myths - soap opera of the gods
371. 10-26 Mar 20 08 Søren Kierkegaard - fear and trembling in Copenhagen
372. 10-27 Mar 21 08 The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins
373. 10-28 Apr 3 08 Newton's Laws of Motion - they put a man on the moon
374. 10-29 Apr 10 08 The Norman Yoke - 1067 and all that
375. 10-30 Apr 17 08 Yeats and Irish Politics - "a terrible beauty is born"
376. 10-31 Apr 24 08 Materialism - are we living in a material world?
377. 10-32 May 1 08 The Enclosures - dividing the country
378. 10-33 May 8 08 The Brain: A History - food for thought
379. 10-34 May 15 08 The Library at Nineveh - treasure trove of Assyrian ideas
380. 10-35 May 22 08 The Black Death - a plague on all our houses
381. 10-36 May 29 08 Probability - heads or tails?
382. 10-37 Jun 5 08 Trofim Lysenko - Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist
383. 10-38 Jun 12 08 The Riddle of the Sands - how Britain learned to fear the Germans
384. 10-39 Jun 19 08 The Music of the Spheres - a dose of heavenly harmonies
385. 10-40 Jun 26 08 The Arab Conquests - the 7th century new world order
386. 10-41 Jul 3 08 The Metaphysical Poets - sex and death in the seventeenth century
387. 10-42 Jul 10 08 Tacitus - the decadence of Rome
11th series 2008 - 45 minutes
388. 11-01 Sep 25 08 Miracles - will they never cease?
389. 11-02 Oct 2 08 The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic
390. 11-03 Oct 9 08 Godel's Incompleteness Theorems - the dirty secrets of maths
391. 11-04 Oct 16 08 Vitalism - the spark of life
392. 11-05 Oct 23 08 Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back
393. 11-06 Oct 30 08 Simon Bolivar - the liberator of Spanish America
394. 11-07 Nov 6 08 Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society?
395. 11-08 Nov 13 08 Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind?
396. 11-09 Nov 20 08 The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe
397. 11-10 Nov 27 08 The Great Reform Act - but was it great?
398. 11-11 Dec 4 08 Heat: A History - from fire to thermodynamics
399. 11-12 Dec 11 08 The Great Fire of London - London's burning, fetch the engines ...
400. 11-13 Dec 18 08 The Physics of Time - does time even exist?
401. 11-14 Jan 1 09 The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius
402. 11-15 Jan 5 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 1 of 4: Mon 5 Jan '09)
403. 11-16 Jan 6 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 2 of 4: Tue 6 Jan '09)
404. 11-17 Jan 7 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 3 of 4: Wed 7 Jan '09)
405. 11-18 Jan 8 09 Darwin - his life and achievements (programme 4 of 4: Thu 8 Jan '09)
406. 11-19 Jan 15 09 Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness
407. 11-20 Jan 22 09 A History of History - how the writing of history has evolved
408. 11-21 Jan 29 09 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - C18 satire gets close to bone
409. 11-22 Feb 5 09 The Brothers Grimm - fairy tales, Grimm, but not as we know them
410. 11-23 Feb 12 09 The Destruction of Carthage - "Delenda Carthago!"
411. 11-24 Feb 19 09 The Observatory at Jaipur - Indian astronomy on cusp of colonialism
412. 11-25 Feb 26 09 The Waste Land & Modernity - "I will show you fear in handful of dust"
413. 11-26 Mar 5 09 Measurement Problem in Physics - man not the measure of all things
414. 11-27 Mar 12 09 The Library of Alexandria - of all the books in all the world
415. 11-28 Mar 19 09 The Boxer Rebellion - "Kill all Foreigners!"
416. 11-29 Mar 26 09 The School of Athens - picturing Greece in Renaissance minds
417. 11-30 Apr 2 09 Baconian Science - Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science
418. 11-31 Apr 9 09 Brave New World - would Soma, free love and the feelies be so bad?
419. 11-32 Apr 16 09 Suffragism - the long march towards votes for women
420. 11-33 Apr 23 09 Building of St Petersburg - "window by which Russia looks on Europe"
421. 11-34 Apr 30 09 The Vacuum of Space - a programme about nothing?
422. 11-35 May 7 09 Magna Carta - foundation of law or rich man's charter?
423. 11-36 May 14 09 The Siege of Vienna - a clash of civilisations?
424. 11-37 May 21 09 The Whale - a history
245. 11-38 May 28 09 St Paul - the first Christian
426. 11-39 Jun 4 09 The Trial of Charles I - the original courtroom drama
427. 11-40 Jun 11 09 The Augustan Age - art and propaganda at birth of the Roman Empire
428. 11-41 Jun 18 09 Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy - theatre of blood
429. 11-42 Jun 25 09 The Sunni-Shia Split - after Muhammad
430. 11-43 Jul 2 09 Logical Positivism - or is it?
431. 11-44 Jul 9 09 The Ediacara Biota - the first animals?
12th series 2009 - 45 minutes
432. 12-01 Sep 17 09 St Thomas Aquinas
433. 12-02 Sep 24 09 Calculus
434. 12-03 Oct 1 09 Akhenaten
435. 12-04 Oct 8 09 The Dreyfus Affair
436. 12-05 Oct 15 09 The Death of Elizabeth I
437. 12-06 Oct 22 09 The Geological Formation of Britain
438. 12-07 Oct 29 09 Schopenhauer
439. 12-08 Nov 5 09 The Siege of Munster
440. 12-09 Nov 12 09 Radiation
441. 12-10 Nov 19 09 Sparta
442. 12-11 Nov 26 09 Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
443. 12-12 Dec 3 09 The Silk Road
444. 12-13 Dec 10 09 Pythagoras
445. 12-14 Dec 24 09 The Samurai
446. 12-15 Dec 31 09 Mary Wollstonecraft
447. 12-16 Jan 4 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 1 of 4: Mon 4 Jan '10)
448. 12-17 Jan 5 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 2 of 4: Tue 5 Jan '10)
449. 12-18 Jan 6 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 3 of 4: Wed 6 Jan '10)
450. 12-19 Jan 7 10 The Royal Society and British Science (prog 4 of 4: Thu 7 Jan '10)
451. 12-20 Jan 14 10 The Frankfurt School
452. 12-21 Jan 21 10 The Glencoe Massacre
453. 12-22 Jan 28 10 Silas Marner
454. 12-23 Feb 4 10 Ibn Khaldun
455. 12-24 Feb 11 10 Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
456. 12-25 Feb 18 10 The Indian Mutiny
457. 12-26 Feb 25 10 Calvinism
458. 12-27 Mar 4 10 The Infant Brain
459. 12-28 Mar 11 10 Boudica
460. 12-29 Mar 18 10 Munch and The Scream
461. 12-30 Mar 25 10 The City - a history, part 1
462. 12-31 Apr 1 10 The City - a history, part 2
463. 12-32 Apr 8 10 William Hazlitt
464. 12-33 Apr 15 10 The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
465. 12-34 Apr 22 10 Roman Satire
466. 12-35 Apr 29 10 The Great Wall of China
467. 12-36 May 6 10 The Cool Universe
468. 12-37 May 13 10 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
469. 12-38 May 20 10 The Cavendish Family in Science
470. 12-39 May 27 10 Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
471. 12-40 Jun 3 10 Edmumd Burke
472. 12-41 Jun 10 10 al-Buruni
473. 12-42 Jun 17 10 The Neanderthals
474. 12-43 Jun 24 10 Antarctica
475. 12-44 Jul 1 10 Athelstan
476. 12-45 Jul 8 10 Pliny's Natural History
13th series 2010 - 45 minutes
477. 13-01 Sep 23 10 Imaginary Numbers
478. 13-02 Sep 30 10 The Delphic Oracle
479. 13-03 Oct 7 10 The Spanish Armada
480. 13-04 Oct 14 10 Sturm und Drang
481. 13-05 Oct 21 10 Logic
482. 13-06 Oct 28 10 The Unicorn
483. 13-07 Nov 4 10 Women and Enlightenment Science
484. 13-08 Nov 11 10 The Volga Vikings
485. 13-09 Nov 18 10 Foxe's Book of Martyrs
486. 13-10 Nov 25 10 History of Metaphor
487. 13-11 Dec 2 10 Cleopatra
488. 13-12 Dec 9 10 Edison
489. 13-13 Dec 16 10 Daoism
490. 13-14 Dec 23 10 The Industrial Revolution
491. 13-15 Dec 30 10 Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
492. 13-16 Jan 6 11 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
493. 13-17 Jan 13 11 Random and Pseudorandom
494. 13-18 Jan 20 11 The Mexican Revolution
495. 13-19 Jan 27 11 Aristotle's Poetics
496. 13-20 Feb 3 11 The Battle of Bannockburn
497. 13-21 Feb 10 11 The Nervous System
498. 13-22 Feb 17 11 Maimonides
499. 13-23 Feb 24 11 The Taiping Revolution
500. 13-24 Mar 3 11 The Age of the Universe
501. 13-25 Mar 10 11 Free Will
502. 13-26 Mar 17 11 The Medieval University
503. 13-27 Mar 24 11 The Dawn of the Iron Age
504. 13-28 Mar 31 11 The Bhagavad Gita
505. 13-29 Apr 7 11 Octavia Hill
506. 13-30 Apr 14 11 Neutrino
507. 13-31 Apr 21 11 The Pelagian Controversy
508. 13-32 Apr 28 11 Cogito Ergo Sum
509. 13-33 May 5 11 The Origins of Islamic Law
510. 13-34 May 12 11 The Anatomy of Melancholy
511. 13-35 May 19 11 Custer's Last Stand
512. 13-36 May 26 11 Xenophon
513. 13-37 Jun 2 11 The Battle of Stamford Bridge
514. 13-38 Jun 9 11 The Origins of Infectious Diseases
515. 13-39 Jun 16 11 John Wycliffe and the Lollards
516. 13-40 Jun 23 11 Malthusianism
517. 13-41 Jun 30 11 Tennyson's In Memoriam
518. 13-42 Jul 7 11 The Minoan Civilisation
14th series 2011 - 45 minutes
519. 14-01 Sep 15 11 The Hippocratic Oath
520. 14-02 Sep 22 11 Shinto
521. 14-03 Sep 29 11 The Etruscan Civilisation
522. 14-04 Oct 6 11 David Hume
523. 14-05 Oct 13 11 The Ming Voyages
524. 14-06 Oct 20 11 Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
525. 14-07 Oct 27 11 The Siege of Tenochlitlan
526. 14-08 Nov 3 11 The Moon
527. 14-09 Nov 10 11 The Continental-Analytic Split
528. 14-10 Nov 17 11 Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy
529. 14-11 Nov 24 11 Judas Maccabeus
530. 14-12 Dec 1 11 Christina Rossetti
531. 14-13 Dec 8 11 Heraclitus
532. 14-14 Dec 15 11 The Concordat of Worms
533. 14-15 Dec 22 11 Robinson Crusoe
534. 14-16 Dec 29 11 Macromolecules
535. 14-17 Jan 2 12 The Written Word (prog 1 of 5: Mon 2 Jan '12)
536. 14-18 Jan 3 12 The Written Word (prog 2 of 5: Tue 3 Jan '12)
537. 14-19 Jan 4 12 The Written Word (prog 3 of 5: Wed 4 Jan '12)
538. 14-20 Jan 5 12 The Written Word (prog 4 of 5: Thu 5 Jan '12)
539. 14-21 Jan 6 12 The Written Word (prog 5 of 5: Fri 6 Jan '12)
540. 14-22 Jan 12 12 The Safavid Dynasty
541. 14-23 Jan 19 12 1848: Year of Revolution
542. 14-24 Jan 26 12 The Scientific Method
543. 14-25 Feb 2 12 The Kama Sutra
544. 14-26 Feb 9 12 Erasmus
545. 14-27 Feb 16 12 The An Lushan Rebellion
546. 14-28 Feb 23 12 Conductors and Semiconductors
547. 14-29 Mar 1 12 Benjamin Franklin
548. 14-30 Mar 8 12 Lyrical Ballads
549. 14-31 Mar 15 12 Vitruvius and De Architectura
550. 14-32 Mar 22 12 Moses Mendelssohn
551. 14-33 Mar 29 12 The Measurement of Time
552. 14-34 Apr 5 12 George Fox and the Quakers
553. 14-35 Apr 12 12 Early Geology
554. 14-36 Apr 19 12 Neoplatonism
555. 14-37 Apr 26 12 The Battle of Bosworth Field
556. 14-38 May 3 12 Voltaire's Candide
557. 14-39 May 10 12 Game Theory
558. 14-40 May 17 12 Clausewitz and On War
559. 14-41 May 24 12 Marco Polo
560. 14-42 May 31 12 The Trojan War
561. 14-43 Jun 7 12 King Solomon
562. 14-44 Jun 14 12 James Joyce's Ulysses
563. 14-45 Jun 21 12 Annie Besant
564. 14-46 Jun 28 12 Al-Kind
565. 14-47 Jul 5 12 Scepticism
566. 14-48 Jul 12 12 Hadrian's Wall
15th Series 2012 - 45 minutes
567. 15-01 Sep 13 12 The cell
568. 15-02 Sep 20 12 The Druids
569. 15-03 Sep 27 12 The Ontological Argument
570. 15-04 Oct 04 12 Gerald of Wales
571. 15-05 Oct 11 12 Hannibal
572. 15-06 Oct 18 12 Caxton and the Printing Press
573. 15-07 Oct 25 12 Fermat's Last Theorem
574. 15-08 Nov 1 12 The Anarchy
575. 15-09 Nov 8 12 The Upanishads
576. 15-10 Nov 15 12 Simone Weill
577. 15-11 Nov 22 12 The Borgias
578. 15-12 Nov 29 12 Crystallography
579. 15-13 Dec 6 12 Bertrand Russell
580. 15-14 Dec 13 12 Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
581. 15-15 Dec 20 12 The South Sea Bubble
582. 15-16 Dec 27 12 The Cult of Mithras
583. 15-17 Jan 10 13 Le Morte d'Arthur
584. 15-18 Jan 17 13 Comets
585. 15-19 Jan 24 13 Romulus and Remus
586. 15-20 Jan 31 13 The War of 1812
587. 15-21 Feb 7 13 Epicureanism
588. 15-22 Feb 14 13 Ice Ages
589. 15-23 Feb 21 13 Decline and Fall
590. 15-24 Feb 28 13 Pitt Rivers
591. 15-25 Mar 7 13 Absolute Zero
592. 15-26 Mar 14 13 Chekhov
593. 15-27 Mar 21 13 Alfred Russel Wallace
594. 15-28 Mar 28 13 Water
595. 15-29 Apr 4 13 Japan's Sakoku Period
596. 15-30 Apr 11 13 The Amazons
597. 15-31 Apr 18 13 The Putney Debates
598. 15-32 Apr 25 13 Montaigne
599. 15-33 May 2 13 Gnosticism
600. 15-34 May 9 13 Icelandic Sagas
601. 15-35 May 16 13 Cosmic Rays
602. 15-36 May 23 13 Levi-Strauss
603. 15-37 May 30 13 Queen Zenobia
604 15-38 Jun 6 13 Relativity
605 15-39 Jun 13 13 Prophecy
606 15-40 Jun 20 13 The Physiocrats
607 15-41 Jun 27 13 Romance of the Three Kingdoms
608 15-42 Jul 4 13 The Invention of Radio
There was a gap of one week at the start of January.
This was filled with five programmes on "The Value of Culture":
1 - Monday: Culture and Anarchy
2 - Tuesday: Culture and the Anthropologists
3 - Wednesday: Two Cultures
4 - Thursday: Mass Culture
5 - Friday: What's the Value of Culture Today?
In previous years similar sets of five programmes at the start of January were listed as part of the "In Our Time" series.
This year the programmes (though similar to those of previous years) were not listed as part of the "In Our Time" series.
16th Series 2013 - 45 minutes
609. 16-01 Sep 19 13 Blaise Pascal
610. 16-02 Sep 26 13 The Mamluks
611. 16-03 Oct 3 13 Exoplanets
612. 16-04 Oct 10 13 Galen
613. 16-05 Oct 17 13 The Book of Common Prayer
614. 16-06 Oct 24 13 The Corn Laws
615. 16-07 Oct 31 13 The Berlin Conference
616. 16-08 Nov 7 13 Ordinary Language Philosophy
617. 16-09 Nov 14 13 The Tempest
618. 16-10 Nov 21 13 Pocohantas
619. 16-11 Nov 28 13 The Microscope
620. 16-12 Dec 5 13 Hindu Ideas of Creation
621. 16-13 Dec 12 13 Pliny the Younger
622. 16-14 Dec 19 13 Complexity
623. 16 15 Dec 26 13 The Medici
624. 16-16 Jan 2 14 Plato's Symposium
625. 16-17 Jan 16 14 The Battle of Tours
626. 16-18 Jan 23 14 Sources of Early Chinese History
627. 16-19 Jan 30 14 Catastrophism
628. 16-20 Feb 6 14 The Phoenicians
629. 16-21 Feb 13 14 Chivalry
630. 16-22 Feb 20 14 Social Darwinism
631. 16-23 Feb 27 14 The Eye
632. 16-24 Mar 6 14 Spartacus
633. 16-25 Mar 13 14 The Trinity
634. 16-26 Mar 20 14 Bishop Berkeley
635. 16-27 Mar 27 14 Weber's The Protestant Ethic
636. 16-28 Apr 3 14 States of Matter
637. 16-29 Apr 10 14 Strabo's Geographica
638. 16-30 Apr 17 14 The Domesday Book
639. 16-31 Apr 24 14 Tristram Shandy
640. 16-32 May 1 14 The Tale of Sinuh
641. 16-33 May 8 14 The Sino-Japanese War
642. 16-34 May 15 14 Photosynthesis
643. 16-35 May 22 14 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
644. 16-36 May 29 14 The Talmum
645. 16-37 Jun 5 14 The Bluestockings
646. 16-38 Jun 12 14 Robert Boyle
647. 16-39 Jun 19 14 The Philosophy of Solitude
648. 16-40 Jun 26 14 Hildegard of Bilden
649. 16-41 Jul 3 14 Mrs Dalloway
650. 16-42 Jul 10 14 The Sun
17th Series 2014 - 45 minutes
651. 17-01 Sep 25 14 Euler's Number, e
652. 17-02 Oct 2 14 Julius Caesar
653. 17-03 Oct 9 14 The Battle of Talas
654. 17-04 Oct 16 14 Rudyard Kipling
655. 17-05 Oct 23 14 The Haitian Revolution
656. 17-06 Oct 30 14 Nuclear Fusion
657. 17-07 Nov 6 14 Hatshepsut
658. 17-08 Nov 13 14 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
659. 17-09 Nov 20 14 Aesop
660. 17-10 Nov 27 14 Kafka's The Trial
661. 17-11 Dec 4 14 Zen
662. 17-12 Dec 11 14 Behavioural Ecology
663. 17-13 Dec 18 14 Truth
664. 17-14 Jan 15 15 Breughel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
665. 17-15 Jan 22 15 Phenomenology
666. 17-16 Jan 29 15 Thucydides
667. 17-17 Feb 5 15 Ashoka the Great
668. 17-18 Feb 12 15 The Photon
669. 17-19 Feb 19 15 Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
670. 17-20 Feb 26 15 The Eunuch
671. 17-21 Mar 5 15 Beowulf
672. 17-22 Mar 12 15 Dark Matter
673. 17-23 Mar 19 15 Al-Ghazali
674. 17-24 Mar 26 15 The Curie Family
675. 17-25 Apr 2 15 The California Gold Rush
676. 17-26 Apr 9 15 Sappho
677. 17-27 Apr 16 15 Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
678. 17-28 Apr 23 15 Fanny Burney
679. 17-29 Apr 30 15 The Earth's Core
680. 17-30 May 7 15 Rabindranath Tagore
681. 17-31 May 14 15 The Lancashire Cotton Famine
682. 17-32 May 21 15 Flavius Josephus
683. 17-33 May 28 15 The Science of Glass
684. 17-34 Jun 4 15 Prester John
685. 17-35 Jun 11 15 Utilitarianism
686. 17-36 Jun 18 15 Jane Eyre
687. 17-37 Jun 25 15 Extremophiles
688. 17-38 Jul 2 15 Frederick the Great
689. 17-39 Jul 9 15 Frida Kahlo
There was a gap of three weeks over Christmas and the New Year.
The second week contained a repeat of the last programme of the previous series (The Sun)
In the third week there were four programmes on Magna Carta:
1 - Monday: Magna Carta - 1/4 - The Road
2 - Tuesday: Magna Carta - 2 /4 - Runnymede
3 - Wednesday: Magna Carta - 3/4 - Aftermath
4 - Thursday: Magna Carta - 4/4 - The Legacy
Until 2012 similar sets of programmes at the start of January have been listed as part of the "In Our Time" series.
In 2013 and 2014 the programmes (though similar to those of previous years) were not listed as part of the "In Our Time" series.
In 2015 the programmes have also not been listed as part of the "In Our Time" series.
18th Series 2015 - 45 minutes
690. 18-01 Sep 24 15 Perpetual Motion
691. 18-02 Oct 1 15 Alexander the Great
692. 18-03 Oct 15 15 Holbein at the Tudor Court
693. 18-04 Oct 22 15 Simone de Beauvoir
694. 18-05 Oct 29 15 The Empire of Mali
695. 18-06 Nov 5 15 P v NP
696. 18-07 Nov 12 15 The Battle of Lepanto
697. 18-08 Nov 19 15 Emma
698. 18-09 Nov 26 15 The Salem Witch Trials
699. 18-10 Dec 3 15 Voyages of James Cook
700. 18-11 Dec 10 15 Chinese Legalism
701. 18-12 Dec 17 15 Circadian Rhythms
702. 18-13 Dec 24 15 Michael Faraday
703. 18-14 Dec 31 15 Tristan and Iseult
704. 18-15 Jan 14 16 Saturn
705. 18-16 Jan 21 16 Thomas Paine's Common Sense
706. 18-17 Jan 28 16 Eleanor of Aquitaine
707. 18-18 Feb 4 16 Chromatography
708. 18-19 Feb 11 16 Rumi's Poetry
709. 18-20 Feb 18 16 Robert Hooke
710. 18-21 Feb 25 16 Mary Magdalene
711. 18-22 Mar 3 16 The Dutch East India Company
712. 18-23 Mar 10 16 The Maya Civilisation
713. 18-24 Mar 17 16 Bedlam
714. 18-25 Mar 24 16 Aurora Leigh
715. 18-26 Mar 31 16 Agrippina the Younger
716. 18-27 Apr 7 16 The Sikh Empire
717. 18-28 Apr 14 16 The Neutron
718. 18-29 Apr 21 16 1816, the Year Without a Summer
719. 18-30 Apr 28 16 Euclid's Elements
720. 18-31 May 5 16 Tess of the d'Urbevilles
721. 18-32 May 12 16 Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
722. 18-33 May 19 16 The Muses
723. 18-34 May 26 16 The Gettysburg Address
724. 18-35 Jun 2 16 Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
725. 18-36 Jun 9 16 Penicillin
726. 18-37 Jun 16 16 The Bronze Age Collapse
727. 18-38 Jun 23 16 Songs of Innocence and of Experience
728. 18-39 Jun 30 16 Sovereignty
729. 18-40 Jul 7 16 The Invention of Photography
There was a gap of one week on October 8 2015 and of one week on January 7 2016.
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19th Series 2016 - 45 minutes
730. 19-01 Sep 22 16 Zeno's Paradoxes
731. 19-02 Sep 29 16 Animal Farm
732. 19-03 Oct 6 16 Lakshmi
733. 19-04 Oct 13 16 Plasma
734. 19-05 Oct 20 16 The 12th Century Renaissance
735. 19-06 Oct 27 16 John Dalton
736. 19-07 Nov 3 16 Epic of Gilgamesh
737. 19-08 Nov 10 16 The Fighting Temeraire
738. 19-09 Nov 17 16 Justinian's Legal Code
739. 19-10 Nov 24 16 Baltic Crusades
740. 19-11 Dec 1 16 Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
741. 19-12 Dec 8 16 Harriet Martineau
742. 19-13 Dec 15 16 The Gin Craze
743. 19-14 Dec 22 16 Four Quartets
744. 19-15 Dec 29 16 Johannes Kepler
745. 19-16 Jan 12 17 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Mortality
746. 19-17 Jan 19 17 Mary, Queen of Scots
747. 19-18 Jan 26 17 Parasitism
748. 19-19 Feb 2 17 Hannah Arendt
749. 19-20 Feb 9 17 John Clare
750. 19-21 Feb 16 17 Maths in the Early Islamic World
751. 19-22 Feb 23 17 Seneca the Younger
752. 19-23 Mar 2 17 The Kuiper Belt
753. 19-24 Mar 9 17 North and South
754. 19-25 Mar 16 17 The Palocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
755. 19-26 Mar 23 17 The Battle of Salamis
756. 19-27 Mar 30 17 Hokusai
757. 19-28 Apr 6 17 Pauli's Exclusion Principle
758. 19-29 Apr 13 17 Rosa Luxemburg
759. 19-30 Apr 20 17 Roger Bacon
760. 19-31 Apr 27 17 The Egyptian Book of the Dead
761. 19-32 May 4 17 Tha Battle of Lincoln 1217
762. 19-33 May 11 17 Emily Dickinson
763. 19-34 May 18 17 Louis Pasteur
764. 19-35 May 25 17 Purgatory
765. 19-36 Jun 1 17 Enzymes
766. 19-37 Jun 8 17 Christine de Pizan
767. 19-38 Jun 15 17 The American Populists
768. 19-39 Jun 22 17 Eugene Onegin
769. 19-40 Jun 29 17 Plato's Republic
770. 19-41 Jul 6 17 Bird Migration
There was a gap of one week on January 5 2017.
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