In Our Time: History
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dh5yg
- Description
- Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-13 23:07
- last episode published
- 2024-12-12 09:02
- publication frequency
- 26.25 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 365
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-12 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understanding of astronomy in ancient Greece. In 1900 a group of sponge divers found the wreck of a ship off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the items s... |
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| 2024-11-28 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable rise of Venice in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike other Italian cities of the early medieval period, Venice had not been settled during the Roman Empire. Rather, it was a refuge for those fleeing unrest ... |
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| 2024-10-31 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notorious attack of 4th of May 1886 at a workers rally in Chicago when somebody threw a bomb that killed a policeman, Mathias J. Degan. The chaotic shooting that followed left more people dead and sent shockwaves ac... |
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| 2024-10-17 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the major figures in Victorian British politics. Disraeli (1804 -1881) served both as Prime Minister twice and, for long periods, as leader of the opposition. Born a Jew, he was only permitted to enter Parliament ... |
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| 2024-07-30 | Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for tales of deception, resistance and courage in series two of History's Secret Heroes. |
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| 2024-07-04 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney, as told in the 13th Century by an unknown Icelander. This was the story of arguably the most important, strategically, of all the islands in the British Viking world, when the Earls contr... |
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| 2024-06-27 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the canonical figures from the history of political thought. Marsilius of Padua (c1275 to c1343) wrote 'Defensor Pacis' (The Defender of the Peace) around 1324 when the Papacy, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Frenc... |
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| 2024-06-20 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who, for almost fifty years, was the most powerful figure in the Chinese court. Cixi (1835-1908) started out at court as one of the Emperor's many concubines, yet was the only one who gave him a son to succeed... |
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| 2024-05-16 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's temporary return to power in France in 1815, following his escape from exile on Elba . He arrived with fewer than a thousand men, yet three weeks later he had displaced Louis XVIII and taken charge ... |
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| 2024-04-18 | Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after Constantine the Great converted to Christianity and introduced a policy of tolerating the faith across the empire, Julian (c.331 - 363 AD) aimed to promote pag... |
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