In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) 1345173 225657971 2008-07-14T19:42:15Z Jojas 2548312 Broadcast details ammended '''''In Our Time''''' is a discussion programme hosted by [[Melvyn Bragg]] on [[BBC Radio 4]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. It is usually broadcast on Thursday mornings at 9am with a shortened repeat at 9.30pm the same day. Currently the series is off air for its summer break ==About the series== ''In Our Time'' is described as a series investigating the "history of ideas". The series covers many different subjects from history, religion, philosophy, the arts or science, one of which is explored in each programme by the presenter Melvyn Bragg with the help of three experts on the subject. The series runs throughout the year except for a summer break of approximately six weeks between July and September. It is produced by James Cook. The BBC website for the programme includes an archive of previous programmes, each available as streaming audio. The archive is divided into sections for the categories of science, religion, philosophy, history and culture, with another section for the programmes of the current series. Since 2005 the programme had been made available for [[download]] from the BBC website and [[iTunes]] as an [[mp3]] file ([[podcast]]) for seven days after transmission. Requests that more or all or the archive be available for download often appear on the messageboard of the series website but the BBC internet producer has responded to point out that through the conditions of the current podcast trial only current editions of the programme (i.e. those broadcast within the last seven days) may be available for download. In 2005 listeners were invited to vote in a poll for the greatest philosopher in history. The winner was the subject of the final programme before the summer break. The vote was won by [[Karl Marx]] with 27.9% of the votes. Other shortlisted figures were [[David Hume]] (12.7%), [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] (6.8%), [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (6.5%), [[Plato]] (5.6%), [[Immanuel Kant]] (5.6%), [[Thomas Aquinas]] (4.8%), [[Socrates]] (4.8%), [[Aristotle]] (4.5%) and [[Karl Popper]] (4.2%). ==The format of the programme== The essential part of the programme lasts 42 minutes. Melvyn Bragg starts with a summary, in about 200 words, of the week's topic. He then introduces three specialists, usually either two men and a woman or two women and a man, who are with him in the studio. Bragg appears familiar with their work - he may have read their books, and during the programme he will often refer to material which they have submitted in advance. One of the specialists is invited to begin the proceedings, and then Bragg advances the discussion by inviting another of the guests to answer a question. This continues along a preplanned route until the forty-two minute mark is in sight. Bragg then either winds the programme up himself or allows a remark from one of the specialists to be the concluding statement. Sometimes, in concluding, he mentions regretfully that there was no time for a particular aspect of the subject. Clearly there had been a plan to include it, but dwelling for too long on an earlier aspect had led to its omission. The programme is usually live and unedited in the morning edition. This is demonstrated during the [[26 April]] [[2007]] episode where one of the participants joins late but has been 'listening in the taxi on the way in'. To the listener at least, it is Bragg, as knowledgeable amateur, introducing and chairing a planned discussion about the topic. He usually succeeds in guiding it to a satisfactory conclusion. This simple structure and lack of editing allows every programme to develop in a unique way while the format remains the same. ==List of programmes== === 2008-2007 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title!! Contributors |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080710.shtml 10 July 2008] |'''[[Tacitus]]''' - The Decadence of [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] |Catharine Edwards, <!-- Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London -->Ellen O’Gorman, <!-- Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol -->Maria Wyke<!-- , Professor of Latin at University College London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080703.shtml 3 July 2008] |'''The [[Metaphysical Poets]]''' - sex and death in the 17th century |Tom Healy, <!-- Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London -->Julie Sanders, <!-- Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham -->Tom Cain<!-- , Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080626.shtml 26 June 2008] |'''The [[Muslim conquests|Arab Conquests]]''' - the 7th century new world order |Hugh Kennedy, <!-- Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London -->Amira Bennison, <!-- Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge -->Robert Hoyland<!-- , Professor in Arabic and Middle East Studies at the University of St Andrews --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080619.shtml 19 June 2008] |'''The [[Musica universalis|Music of the Spheres]]''' - a dose of heavenly harmonies |Peter Forshaw, <!-- Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London -->Jim Bennett, <!-- Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford -->Angela Voss<!-- , Director of the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination at the University of Kent, Canterbury --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080612.shtml 12 June 2008] |'''[[The Riddle of the Sands]]''' - how Britain learned to fear the Germans |Richard Evans, <!-- Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge -->Rosemary Ashton, <!-- Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London -->Tim Blanning<!-- , Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge University --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080605.shtml 5 June 2008] |'''[[Trofim Lysenko]]''' - [[Joseph Stalin]]'s chief geneticist |[[Robert Service (historian)|Robert Service]], <!-- Professor of Russian History at the University of Oxford -->[[Steve Jones (biologist)|Steve Jones]], <!-- Professor of Genetics at University College London -->Catherine Merridale<!-- , Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080529.shtml 29 May 2008] |'''[[Probability]]''' - heads or tails? |[[Marcus du Sautoy]], <!-- Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford -->Colva Roney-Dougal, <!-- Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews -->[[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]]<!-- , Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080522.shtml 22 May 2008] |'''The [[Black Death]]''' - a plague on all our houses |Miri Rubin, <!-- Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London -->Samuel Cohn, <!-- Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow --> Paul Binski<!-- , Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080515.shtml 15 May 2008] |'''The Library at [[Nineveh]]''' - |Eleanor Robson, <!-- Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University and Vice-Chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq -->Karen Radner, <!-- Lecturer in the Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London -->Andrew George<!-- , Professor of Babylonian at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080508.shtml 8 May 2008] |'''[[History of the brain|The Brain: A History]]''' - food for thought |Vivian Nutton, <!-- Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London -->Jonathan Sawday, <!-- Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde -->Marina Wallace<!-- , Professor at the University of the Arts, London, Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080501.shtml 1 May 2008] |'''The [[Enclosure|Enclosures]]''' - dividing the country |Rosemary Sweet, <!-- Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester -->Murray Pittock, <!-- Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow -->Mark Overton<!-- , Professor of Economic and Social History at the -University of Exeter--> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080424.shtml April 24 2008] |'''[[Materialism]]''' - are we living in a material world? |[[Anthony Grayling]], <!-- Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London -->Caroline Warman, <!-- Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford -->[[Anthony O'Hear]]<!-- , Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080417.shtml April 17 2008] |'''[[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and Irish Politics''' - "a terrible beauty is born" |Roy Foster, <!-- Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford University and Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford -->Fran Brearton, <!-- Reader in English at Queen’s University, Belfast and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry -->Warwick Gould<!-- , Director of the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080410.shtml April 10 2008] |'''The [[Norman Yoke]]''' - [[1067]] [[1066 and all that|and all that]] |Sarah Foot, <!-- Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford -->Richard Gameson, <!-- Professor in the Department of History at Durham University -->Matthew Strickland<!-- , Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080403.shtml April 3 2008] |'''[[Newton's Laws of Motion]]''' - they put a man on the [[Moon]] |Simon Schaffer, <!-- Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Darwin College -->Raymond Flood, <!-- University Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics and Senior Tutor at Kellogg College, University of Oxford -->Rob Iliffe<!-- , Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science at the University of Sussex --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080327.shtml March 27 2008] |The '''[[Dissolution of the Monasteries]]''' - religion in ruins |Diarmaid MacCulloch, <!-- Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University -->Diane Purkiss, <!-- Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford -->George Bernard<!-- , Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080320.shtml March 20 2008] |'''[[Soren Kierkegaard]]''' - fear and trembling in Copenhagen |Jonathan Rée, <!-- Visiting Professor at Roehampton University and the Royal College of Art -->Clare Carlisle, <!-- Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool -->John Lippitt<!-- , Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080313.shtml March 13 2008] |'''[[Greek Mythology|The Greek Myths]]''' - soap opera of the gods |Nick Lowe, <!-- Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London -->Richard Buxton, <!-- Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol -->Mary Beard<!-- , Professor of Classics at Cambridge University --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080306.shtml March 6 2008] |'''[[Ada Lovelace]]''' - prophet of the computer age |Patricia Fara, <!-- Senior Tutor at Clare College, Cambridge -->Doron Swade, <!-- Visiting Professor in the History of Computing at Portsmouth University -->John Fuegi<!-- , Visiting Professor in Biography at Kingston University --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080228.shtml February 28 2008] |'''[[King Lear]]''' - [[Shakespeare]]'s finest fairy tale |Jonathan Bate, <!-- Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick -->Katherine Duncan-Jones, <!-- Tutorial Fellow in English at Somerville College, Oxford -->Catherine Belsey<!-- , Research Professor in English at the University of Wales, Swansea --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080221.shtml February 21 2008] |'''The [[Multiverse]]''' - the [[universe]] is not enough <!-- Science --> |[[Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow|Martin Rees]], <!-- President of the Royal Society and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge -->[[Fay Dowker]], <!-- Reader in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College -->[[Bernard Carr]]<!-- , Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080214.shtml February 14 2008] |'''The [[Statue of Liberty]]''' - From France with love... |Robert Gildea, <!-- Professor of Modern History at Oxford University -->Kathleen Burk, <!-- Professor of Modern Contemporary History at University College London -->John Keane<!-- , Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080207.shtml February 7 2008] |'''The [[Social Contract]]''' - [[Thomas Hobbes|Hobbes]], [[John Locke|Locke]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]] and the Origins of [[Society]]<!-- Philosophy --> |Melissa Lane, <!-- Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University -->Susan James, <!-- Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London -->Karen O’Brien<!-- , Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080131.shtml January 31 2008] |'''The Court of [[Rudolf II]]''' - the lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas |Peter Forshaw, <!-- Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Exeter --> Howard Hotson, <!-- Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford -->Adam Mosley, <!-- Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Wales, Swansea --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080124.shtml January 24 2008] |'''[[Plate Tectonics]]''' - the day the Earth moved<!-- Science --> |Richard Corfield, <!-- Visiting Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Open University -->Joe Cann, <!-- Senior Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds -->Lynne Frostick<!-- , Director of the Hull Environment Research Institute and Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080117.shtml January 17, 2008] |'''The [[Fisher King]]''' - the wound that does not heal<!-- Culture --> |Carolyne Larrington, <!-- Tutor in Medieval English at St John’s College, Oxford -->Stephen Knight, <!-- Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University -->Juliette Wood<!-- , Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh, Cardiff University and Director of the Folklore Society --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080110.shtml January 10, 2008] |'''The [[Charge of the Light Brigade]]''' - "All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred"<!-- History --> |Mike Broers, <!-- Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall -->Trudi Tate, <!-- Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge -->Saul David<!-- , Visiting Professor of Military History at the University of Hull --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080103.shtml January 3, 2008] |'''[[Albert Camus]]''' - Rebel with a Cause<!-- Philosophy,Culture --> |Peter Dunwoodie, <!-- Professor of French Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London -->David Walker, <!-- Professor of French at the University of Sheffield -->Christina Howells<!-- , Professor of French at Wadham College, University of Oxford --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071227.shtml December 27, 2007] |'''The [[Nicene Creed]]''' - when Christ became God<!-- Religion --> |Martin Palmer<!-- Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture -->, Caroline Humfress, <!-- Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London -->Andrew Louth<!-- , Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at the University of Durham --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071220.shtml December 20, 2007] |'''The [[Humorism|Four Humours]]''' - yellow [[bile]], [[blood]], choler and [[phlegm]] in the original theory of everything<!-- Science --> |David Wootton, <!-- Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York -->Vivian Nutton, <!-- Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London -->Noga Arikha<!-- , Visiting Fellow at the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071213.shtml December 13, 2007] |'''The [[Sassanian Empire]]''' - - in the shadow of [[Ancient Persia]]<!-- History --> |Hugh Kennedy, <!-- Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies -->Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, <!-- Curator of Iranian and Islamic Coins in the British Museum -->James Howard-Johnston<!-- , University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071206.shtml December 6, 2007] |'''[[Mutation|Genetic Mutation]]''' - the error-strewn secrets of life<!-- Science --> |[[Steve Jones (biologist)|Steve Jones]], <!-- Professor of Genetics in the Galton Laboratory, University College London -->Adrian Woolfson, <!-- lectures in Medicine at Cambridge University -->Linda Partridge<!-- Weldon Professor of Biometry at University College London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071129.shtml November 29, 2007] |'''The [[Fibonacci Sequence]]''' - - the numbers in nature<!-- Science --> |[[Marcus du Sautoy]], <!-- Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford -->Jackie Stedall, <!-- Junior Research Fellow in History of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Oxford -->, Ron Knott<!-- Visiting Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071122.shtml November 22, 2007] |'''''[[The Prelude]]''''' - the greatest poem in the English language?<!-- Culture --> |Rosemary Ashton, <!-- Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London -->Stephen Gill, <!-- University Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford -->Emma Mason<!-- , Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071115.shtml November 15, 2007] |'''The Discovery of [[Oxygen]]''' - feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry<!-- Science --> |[[Simon Schaffer]], <!-- Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge -->[[Jenny Uglow]], Hasok Chang<!-- , Reader in Philosophy of Science at University College London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071108.shtml November 8, 2007] |'''[[Avicenna]]''' - wine, women and philosophy<!-- Philosophy --> |Peter Adamson, <!-- Reader in Philosophy at King's College London -->Amira Bennison, <!-- Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge -->Nader El-Bizri<!-- , Affiliated Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071101.shtml November 1, 2007] |'''[[Guilt]]''' - what is it good for?<!-- Philosophy,Religion --> |Stephen Mulhall<!-- Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford -->, [[Miranda Fricker]], Oliver Davies<!-- Professor of Christian Doctrine at King’s College London --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071025.shtml October 25, 2007] |'''[[Taste (sociology)|Taste]]''' - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century<!-- Culture --> |Amanda Vickery<!-- Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London -->, John Mullan<!-- Professor of English at University College London -->, Jeremy Black<!-- Professor of History at the University of Exeter --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071018.shtml October 18, 2007] |'''The [[One Thousand and One Nights|Arabian Nights]]''' - The art of story-telling<!-- Culture --> |Robert Irwin, <!-- Senior Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London -->[[Marina Warner]], <!-- Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex -->Gerard van Gelder, Laudian <!-- Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071011.shtml October 11, 2007] |'''[[Divine Right of Kings]]''' - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"<!-- History, Culture --> |Justin Champion<!-- Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London -->, Tom Healy<!-- Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London -->, Clare Jackson<!-- Lecturer and Director of Studies in History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge --> |- ||[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071004.shtml October 4, 2007] |'''[[Antimatter]]''' - where has it all gone? <!-- Science --> |Val Gibson<!-- , Reader in High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge -->, [[Frank Close]]<!-- , Professor of Physics at Exeter College, University of Oxford -->, Ruth Gregory<!-- , Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Durham --> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070927.shtml September 27, 2007] |'''[[Socrates]]''' - the man and the myth<!-- Philosophy --> |[[Angie Hobbs]], <!-- Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University --> David Sedley, <!-- Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University --> Paul Millett<!-- Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge --> |} === 2007-2006 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title !! Contributors |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070712.shtml July 12, 2007] || '''The Trial of [[Madame Bovary]]''' - "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!" || Andy Martin<ref>[[Andy Martin (lecturer)|Andy Martin]], Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge</ref> Mary Orr<ref>[[Mary Orr (academic)|Mary Orr]], Professor of French at the University of Southampton</ref> [[Robert Gildea]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070705.shtml July 05, 2007] || The '''[[Pilgrim Fathers]]''' - the original American dream || Kathleen Burk,<ref>[[Kathleen Burk]], Professor of American History at University College London</ref> Harry Bennett,<ref>[[Harry Bennett (academic)|Harry Bennett]], Reader in History and Head of Humanities at the University of Plymouth</ref> Tim Lockley<ref>[[Tim Lockley]], Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070628.shtml June 28, 2007] || '''[[Permian-Triassic extinction event|Permian-Triassic Boundary]]''' - when 95% of life was killed off || Richard Corfield,<ref name="RichardCorfield">[[Richard Corfield]], Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences and Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research at the Open University, Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University</ref> Mike Benton,<ref name="MikeBenton">[[Mike Benton]], Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol</ref> [[Jane Francis]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070621.shtml June 21, 2007] || '''[[common sense|Common Sense]] Philosophy''' - "there is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it" || [[A. C. Grayling]], Melissa Lane,<ref>[[Melissa Lane]], Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University</ref> Alexander Broadie<ref name="AlexanderBroadie">[[Alexander Broadie]], Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow, author of ''The Scottish Enlightenment - The Historical Age of the Historical Nation''</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070614.shtml June 14, 2007] || '''[[History of astrology#Astrology in Medieval and Renaissance Europe|Renaissance Astrology]]''' - "we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them" ||Peter Forshaw,<ref name="PeterForshaw">[[Peter Forshaw]], Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London</ref> Lauren Kassell,<ref name="LaurenKassell">[[Lauren Kassell]], Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge</ref> Jonathan Sawday<ref name="JonathanSawday">[[Jonathan Sawday]], Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070607.shtml June 7, 2007] || '''[[Siegfried Sassoon]]''' - the poet who survived || [[Jean Moorcroft Wilson]], Fran Brearton,<ref>[[Fran Brearton]], Reader in English and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the University of Belfast</ref> [[Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont|Max Egremont]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070531.shtml May 31, 2007] || '''[[Occam's Razor]]''' - cutting medieval philosophy down to size || Sir [[Anthony Kenny]], [[Marilyn McCord Adams]], [[Richard Alan Cross]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070524.shtml May 24, 2007] || '''The [[Siege of Orleans]]''' - did [[Joan of Arc]] really rescue [[France]]? || Anne Curry,<ref name="AnneCurry">[[Anne Curry]], Professor of Medieval History at Southampton University</ref> Malcolm Vale,<ref>[[Malcolm Vale]], Fellow and Tutor in History at St John's College, Oxford</ref> Matthew Bennett<ref>[[Matthew Bennett (academic)|Matthew Bennett]] , Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070517.shtml May 17, 2007] || '''[[Gravity|Gravitational Waves]]''' - a new window on the universe || [[Jim Al-Khalili]], Carolin Crawford,<ref name="CarolinCrawford">[[Carolin Crawford]], Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge</ref> Sheila Rowan<ref name="SheilaRowan">[[Sheila Rowan]], Professor in Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070510.shtml May 10, 2007] || '''Victorian [[Pessimism]]''' - fear and loathing in the late 19th century || Dinah Birch,<ref name="DinahBirch">[[Dinah Birch]], Professor of English at the University of Liverpool</ref> Rosemary Ashton,<ref name="RosemaryAshton">[[Rosemary Ashton]], Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London</ref> [[Peter Mandler]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070503.shtml May 3, 2007] || '''[[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]]''' - believed that God and Nature were the same thing || [[Jonathan Rée]], Sarah Hutton,<ref>[[Sarah Hutton]], Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth</ref> John Cottingham<ref>[[John Cottingham]], Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070426.shtml April 26, 2007] || '''[[Greek poetry|Greek]] and [[Roman poetry|Roman]] Love Poetry''' - the pursuit of the Beloved from [[Sappho]] to [[Catullus]] || Nick Lowe<ref name="NickLowe">[[Nick Lowe (classicist)|Nick Lowe]], Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref>, [[Edith Hall]], Maria Wyke<ref>[[Maria Wyke]], Professor of Latin at University College London</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070419.shtml April 19, 2007] || '''[[Symmetry]]''' - the pattern at the heart of our physical world || [[Fay Dowker]], [[Marcus du Sautoy]], [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070412.shtml April 12, 2007] || '''The [[Opium Wars]]''' - a conflict that was to affect British-Chinese relations for generations || Yangwen Zheng<ref>[[Yangwen Zheng]], Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Manchester</ref>, Lars Laamann<ref>[[Lars Laamann]], Research Fellow in Chinese History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London</ref>, Xun Zhou<ref>[[Xun Zhou (academic)|Xun Zhou]], Research Fellow in History at SOAS, University of London</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070405.shtml April 5, 2007] || '''[[Hilda of Whitby|St Hilda]]''' - the life and times of the [[Abbess]] of [[Whitby]] || John Blair<ref>[[John Blair (historian)|John Blair]], Fellow in History at The Queen's College, Oxford</ref>, Rosemary Cramp<ref>[[Rosemary Cramp]], Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at Durham University</ref>, [[Sarah Foot]] |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070329.shtml March 29, 2007] || '''[[Anesthesia|Anaesthetics]]''' - from ether frolics to pain free [[surgery]] || David Wilkinson<ref>[[David Wilkinson (anaesthetist)|David Wilkinson]], Consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and President of the History of Anaesthesia Society</ref>, Stephanie Snow<ref>[[Stephanie Snow]], Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester</ref>, Dr Anne Hardy<ref name="AnneHardy">Dr [[Anne Hardy (scientist)|Anne Hardy]], Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070322.shtml March 22, 2007] |'''[[Bismarck]]''' - The Iron Chancellor || [[Richard J. Evans]], [[Christopher Clark]], Katharine Lerman<ref>[[Katharine Lerman]], Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University</ref> |- |[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070315.shtml March 15, 2007] || '''[[Epistolary novel|Epistolary Literature]]''' - great novels of fictional letters || [[John Mullan]], Karen O'Brien,<ref>[[Karen O'Brien]], Professor in English at the University of Warwick</ref> Brean Hammond<ref>[[Brean Hammond]], Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070308.shtml March 8, 2007] | '''[[Microbiology]]''' - the story of the invisible masters of the universe || [[John Dupré]], Anne Glover,<ref>[[Anne Glover (biologist)|Anne Glover]], Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Aberdeen University</ref> Andrew Mendelsohn<ref>[[Andrew Mendelsohn]], Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070301.shtml March 1, 2007] || '''The History of [[Optics]]''' - from [[telescopes]] to [[microscopes]], a new way of seeing the world || [[Simon Schaffer]], [[Jim Bennett (historian)|Jim Bennett]], Emily Winterburn<ref>[[Emily Winterburn]], Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070222.shtml February 22, 2007] || '''[[William Wilberforce]]''' - the man and his legacy || This broadcast was a documentary rather than a discussion |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070215.shtml February 15, 2007] || '''[[Heart of Darkness]]''' - one of the most influential novels of the 20th century || Susan Jones,<ref>[[Susan Jones]], Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford</ref> Robert Hampson,<ref>[[Robert Hampson (academic)|Robert Hampson]], Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> Laurence Davies<ref>[[Laurence Davies]], Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070208.shtml February 8, 2007] || '''[[Karl Popper]]''' - his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science || [[John Worrall (philosopher)|John Worrall]], [[Anthony O'Hear]], [[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070201.shtml February 1, 2007] || '''[[Genghis Khan]]''' - founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires || [[Peter Jackson (historian)|Peter Jackson]], Naomi Standen,<ref>[[Naomi Standen]], Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University</ref> George Lane<ref>[[George Lane (historian)|George Lane]], Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070125.shtml January 25, 2007] || '''[[Archimedes]]''' - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments || Jackie Stedall,<ref name="JackieStedall">[[Jackie Stedall]], Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford</ref> Serafina Cuomo,<ref>[[Serafina Cuomo]], Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London</ref> George Phillips<ref>[[George Phillips (mathematician)|George Phillips]], Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070118.shtml January 18, 2007] || '''The [[Jesuits]]''' - the school masters of Europe || Nigel Aston,<ref>[[Nigel Aston]], Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester</ref> Simon Ditchfield,<ref>[[Simon Ditchfield]], Reader in History at the University of York</ref> Dame [[Olwen Hufton]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070111.shtml January 11, 2007] || '''[[Mars]]''' - the search for life on the Red Planet || [[John Zarnecki]], [[Colin Pillinger]], [[Monica Grady]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20070104.shtml January 4, 2007] || '''[[Borges]]''' - the life and work of [[Argentina]]'s best loved short story writer || Edwin Williamson,<ref name="EdwinWilliamson">[[Edwin Williamson]], Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford</ref> Efraín Kristal,<ref>[[Efraín Kristal]], Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles</ref> Evelyn Fishburn<ref>[[Evelyn Fishburn]], Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061228.shtml December 28, 2006] || '''The [[Fall of Constantinople|Siege of Constantinople]]''' - the end of a thousand years of the [[Byzantine Empire]] || Roger Crowley,<ref>[[Roger Crowley]], author and historian</ref> [[Judith Herrin]], Colin Imber<ref>[[Colin Imber]], formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061221.shtml December 21, 2006] || '''[[Hell]]''' - its representation through the ages || [[Martin Palmer]], Margaret Kean,<ref>[[Margaret Kean]], Tutor and Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford</ref> [[Neil MacGregor]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061214.shtml December 14, 2006] || '''[[Indian Maths]]''' - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number || George Gheverghese Joseph,<ref>[[George Gheverghese Joseph]], Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University</ref> Colva Roney-Dougal,<ref name="ColvaRoney-Dougal">[[Colva Roney-Dougal]], Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews</ref> Dennis Almeida<ref>[[Dennis Almeida]], Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061207.shtml December 7, 2006] || '''[[Anarchism]]''' - a question of authority? || [[John Keane (British political theorist)|John Keane]], [[Ruth Kinna]], [[Peter Marshall (author)|Peter Marshall]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061130.shtml November 30, 2006] || '''The [[Speed of Light]]''' - a cosmic speed limit? || [[John D. Barrow]], Iwan Morus,<ref name="IwanMorus">[[Iwan Morus]], Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth</ref> [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061123.shtml November 23, 2006] || '''[[Altruism]]''' - how can evolutionary biology explain it? || [[Miranda Fricker]], [[Richard Dawkins]], [[John Dupré]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061116.shtml November 16, 2006] || '''The [[Peasants' Revolt]]''' - a lasting legacy for popular uprising? || [[Miri Rubin]], Caroline Barron,<ref>[[Caroline Barron]], Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> Alastair Dunn<ref>[[Alastair Dunn]], author of ''The Peasants' Revolt - England's Failed Revolution of 1381''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061109.shtml November 9, 2006] || '''[[Alexander Pope]]''' - "short is my date, but deathless my renown" || [[John Mullan]], Jim McLaverty,<ref name="JimMcLaverty">[[Jim McLaverty]], Professor of English at Keele University</ref> Valerie Rumbold<ref>[[Valerie Rumbold]], Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061102.shtml November 2, 2006] || '''The [[Poincaré conjecture]]''' - how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe || June Barrow-Green,<ref>[[June Barrow-Green]], Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University</ref> [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]], [[Marcus du Sautoy]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061026.shtml October 26, 2006] || '''The [[Encyclopédie]]''' - the great project of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] || Judith Hawley,<ref name="JudithHawley">[[Judith Hawley]], Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> Caroline Warman,<ref>[[Caroline Warman]], Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford</ref> David Wootton<ref name="DavidWootton">[[David Wootton]], Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061019.shtml October 19, 2006] || '''The [[Needham Question]]''' - did China lay the foundations of modern science? || Dr Chris Cullen,<ref name="ChrisCullen">Dr [[Chris Cullen]], Director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University</ref> Tim Barrett,<ref>[[Tim Barrett (historian)|Tim Barrett]], Professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS), University of London</ref> Frances Wood<ref>[[Frances Wood]], Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061012.shtml October 12, 2006] || '''The [[Diet of Worms]]''' - [[Martin Luther|Luther]]'s stand against the Church || [[Diarmaid MacCulloch]], David Bagchi,<ref>[[David Bagchi]], Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull</ref> Reverend Dr Charlotte Methuen<ref>Reverend Dr [[Charlotte Methuen]], Lecturer in Reformation History at the University of Oxford</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061005.shtml October 5, 2006] || '''[[Averroes]]''' - the battle between faith and reason || Amira Bennison,<ref name="AmiraBennison">[[Amira Bennison]], Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge</ref> Peter Adamson,<ref>[[Peter Adamson (philosopher)|Peter Adamson]], Reader in Philosophy at King's College London</ref> Sir [[Anthony Kenny]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060928.shtml September 28, 2006] || '''[[Alexander von Humboldt]]''' - the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist || Jason Wilson,<ref>[[Jason Wilson (academic)|Jason Wilson]], Professor of Latin American Literature at University College London</ref> Patricia Fara,<ref name="PatriciaFara">[[Patricia Fara]], Affiliated Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare College and author of ''Newton: the Making of Genius''</ref> Jim Secord<ref>[[Jim Secord]], Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project</ref> |- |} === 2006-2005 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title !! Contributors |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060713.shtml July 13, 2006] || '''[[Ancient Greek comedy|Greek Comedy]]''' - sing as you revel and rout || [[Paul Cartledge]], [[Edith Hall]], Nick Lowe<ref name="NickLowe"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060706.shtml July 6, 2006] || '''[[Pastoral Literature]]''' - the romantic idealisation of the countryside || [[Helen Cooper (professor)|Helen Cooper]], [[Laurence Lerner]], Julie Sanders<ref>[[Julie Sanders]], Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060629.shtml June 29, 2006] || '''[[Galaxies]]''' - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter || [[John Gribbin]], Carolin Crawford,<ref name="CarolinCrawford"/> [[Robert Kennicutt]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060622.shtml June 22, 2006] || '''The [[Spanish Inquisition]]''' - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history || John Edwards,<ref>[[John Edwards (historian)|John Edwards]], Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford</ref> Alexander Murray,<ref name="AlexanderMurray">[[Alexander Murray (medievalist)|Alexander Murray]], Medieval historian and Emeritus Fellow in History at University College, Oxford</ref> Michael Alpert<ref>[[Michael Alpert]], Emeritus Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Spain at the University of Westminster</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060615.shtml June 15, 2006] || '''[[Carbon]]''' - the basis of life || [[Harry Kroto]], [[Monica Grady]], Ken Teo<ref>[[Ken Teo]], Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060608.shtml June 8, 2006] || '''''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''''' - the novel that started the American Civil War || Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier,<ref>Dr [[Celeste-Marie Bernier]], Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham</ref> Dr Sarah Meer,<ref>Dr [[Sarah Meer]], Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge</ref> Dr Clive Webb<ref>Dr [[Clive Webb]], Reader in American History at the University of Sussex</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060601.shtml June 1, 2006] || '''The [[Heart]]''' - its anatomical and cultural history || David Wootton,<ref name="DavidWootton"/> Fay Bound Alberti,<ref>[[Fay Bound Alberti]], Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester</ref> Jonathan Sawday<ref name="JonathanSawday"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060525.shtml May 25, 2006] || '''[[Mathematics and Music]]''' - the science behind sound and composition || [[Marcus du Sautoy]], [[Robin Wilson (mathematician)|Robin Wilson]], Ruth Tatlow<ref>[[Ruth Tatlow]], Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060518.shtml May 18, 2006] || '''[[John Stuart Mill]]''' - one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century || [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Janet Radcliffe Richards]], [[Alan Ryan]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060511.shtml May 11, 2006] || '''[[Faeries]]''' - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans || Dr Juliette Wood,<ref name="JulietteWood">Dr [[Juliette Wood]], Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff and Secretary of the Folklore Society</ref> [[Diane Purkiss]], Nicola Bown<ref>[[Nicola Bown]], Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060504.shtml May 4, 2006] || '''[[Astronomy]] and [[Empire]]''' - the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery || [[Simon Schaffer]], Kristen Lippincott,<ref name="KristenLippincott">[[Kristen Lippincott]], Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich</ref> [[Allan Chapman (historian)|Allan Chapman]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060427.shtml April 27, 2006] || '''The [[Great Exhibition]]''' - a wonder of the Victorian world || [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], Hermione Hobhouse,<ref>[[Hermione Hobhouse]], Architectural Historian and Writer</ref> [[Clive Emsley]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060420.shtml April 20, 2006] || '''The Search for [[Immunisation]]''' - and the battle against smallpox || Nadja Durbach,<ref>[[Nadja Durbach]], Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah</ref> Dr Chris Dye,<ref name="ChrisDye">Dr [[Chris Dye]], Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology</ref> Sanjoy Bhattacharya<ref>[[Sanjoy Bhattacharya]], Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060413.shtml April 13, 2006] || '''The [[Oxford Movement]]''' - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century || Sheridan Gilley,<ref>[[Sheridan Gilley]], Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham</ref> Frances Knight,<ref>[[Frances Knight]], Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Lampeter</ref> Simon Skinner<ref>[[Simon Skinner]], Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060406.shtml April 6, 2006] || '''[[Goethe]]''' - formation of a German cultural icon || [[T. C. W. Blanning]], Sarah Colvin,<ref>[[Sarah Colvin]], Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh</ref> W. Daniel Wilson<ref>[[W. Daniel Wilson]], Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060330.shtml March 30, 2006] || '''The [[Carolingian Renaissance]]''' - the revival of early medieval Western Europe || Matthew Innes,<ref>[[Matthew Innes]], Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London</ref> Julia Smith,<ref>[[Julia Smith (historian)|Julia Smith]], Edwards Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow University</ref> Mary Garrison<ref>[[Mary Garrison]], Lecturer in History at the University of York</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060323.shtml March 23, 2006] || '''The [[Royal Society]]''' - the first club for experimental science || Stephen Pumfrey,<ref name="StephenPumfrey">[[Stephen Pumfrey]], Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster</ref> [[Lisa Jardine]], [[Michael Hunter (historian)|Michael Hunter]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060316.shtml March 16, 2006] || '''''[[Don Quixote]]''''' - Spanish romance and the first novel || Barry Ife,<ref>[[Barry Ife]], Cervantes Professor Emeritus at King's College London</ref> Edwin Williamson,<ref name="EdwinWilliamson"/> Jane Whetnall<ref>[[Jane Whetnall]], Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060309.shtml March 9, 2006] || '''[[Negative numbers]]''' - how they spread across civilizations || [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]], Colva Roney-Dougal,<ref name="ColvaRoney-Dougal"/> Raymond Flood<ref>[[Raymond Flood]], Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at Kellogg College, Oxford</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060302.shtml March 2, 2006] || '''[[Friendship]]''' - thinking philosophically about our close companions || [[Angie Hobbs]], Mark Vernon,<ref>[[Mark Vernon]], Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University</ref> [[John Mullan]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060223.shtml February 23, 2006] || '''[[Catherine the Great]]''' - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia || Janet Hartley,<ref>[[Janet Hartley]], Professor of International History at the London School of Economics</ref> Simon Dixon,<ref>[[Simon Dixon]], Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds</ref> Tony Lentin<ref>[[Tony Lentin]], Professor of History at the Open University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060216.shtml February 16, 2006] || '''[[Human Evolution]]''' - from early hominids to Homo sapiens || [[Steve Jones (biologist)|Steve Jones]], Fred Spoor,<ref>[[Fred Spoor]], Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London</ref> Margaret Clegg<ref>[[Margaret Clegg]], Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060209.shtml February 9, 2006] || '''[[Geoffrey Chaucer]]''' - the first Great English Poet || Dr Carolyne Larrington,<ref name="CarolyneLarrington">Dr [[Carolyne Larrington]], Tutor in Medieval English at St John's College, Oxford</ref> [[Helen Cooper (professor)|Helen Cooper]], Ardis Butterfield<ref>[[Ardis Butterfield]], Reader in English at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060202.shtml February 2, 2006] || '''The [[Abbasid Caliphs]]''' - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world. || [[Hugh N. Kennedy]], [[Robert Graham Irwin]], Amira Bennison<ref name="AmiraBennison"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060126.shtml January 26, 2006] || '''[[print culture|Seventeenth Century Print Culture]]''' - piety, populism and political protest || Kevin Sharpe,<ref>[[Kevin Sharpe]], Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London</ref> Ann Hughes,<ref>[[Ann Hughes]], Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele</ref> Joad Raymond<ref>[[Joad Raymond]], Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060119.shtml January 19, 2006] || '''[[Relativism]]''' - the battle against transcendent knowledge || Barry Smith,<ref name="BarrySmith">[[Barry Smith (philosopher)|Barry Smith]], Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London</ref> [[Jonathan Rée]], Kathleen Lennon<ref>[[Kathleen Lennon]], Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060112.shtml January 12, 2006] || '''[[Prime Numbers]]''' - the building blocks of mathematics || [[Marcus du Sautoy]], [[Robin Wilson (mathematician)|Robin Wilson]], Jackie Stedall<ref name="JackieStedall"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060105.shtml January 5, 2006] || '''The [[Oath]]''' - guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world || Alan Sommerstein,<ref>[[Alan Sommerstein]], Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham</ref> [[Paul Cartledge]], [[Mary Beard (classicist)|Mary Beard]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051229.shtml December 29, 2005] || '''[[Aeschylus]]' ''[[Oresteia]]''''' - the birth of tragedy || [[Edith Hall]], [[Simon Goldhill]], Thomas Healy<ref name="ThomasHealy">[[Thomas Healy]], Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051222.shtml December 22, 2005] || '''[[Heaven]]''' - a journey through the afterlife || Valery Rees,<ref name="ValeryRees">[[Valery Rees]], Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science, a translator of Ficino's letters</ref> [[Martin Palmer]], [[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051215.shtml December 15, 2005] || '''The [[Peterloo Massacre]]''' - democratic protest and brutal repression || [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], Sarah Richardson,<ref>[[Sarah Richardson (historian)|Sarah Richardson]], Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick</ref> [[Clive Emsley]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051208.shtml December 8, 2005] || '''[[Artificial Intelligence]]''' - the quest for a machine that can think || Jon Agar,<ref>[[Jon Agar]], Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge</ref> Alison Adam,<ref>[[Alison Adam]], Professor of Information Systems at Salford University</ref> [[Igor Aleksander]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051201.shtml December 1, 2005] || '''[[Thomas Hobbes]] and the political philosophy of ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan]]'' || [[Quentin Skinner]], David Wootton,<ref name="DavidWootton"/> Annabel Brett<ref name="AnnabelBrett">[[Annabel Brett]], Fellow of Gonville and Caius and Senior Lecturer in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, editor with Quentin Skinner of ''Liberty, Right and Nature'' (Cambridge University Press).</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051124.shtml November 24, 2005] || '''The [[Graviton]]''' - the quest for the theoretical gravity particle || [[Roger Cashmore]], [[Jim Al-Khalili]], Sheila Rowan<ref name="SheilaRowan"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051117.shtml November 17, 2005] || '''[[Pragmatism]]''' - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America || [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Julian Baggini]], [[Miranda Fricker]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051110.shtml November 10, 2005] || '''[[Franciscan|Greyfriars]] and [[Dominican Order|Blackfriars]]''' - philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church || [[Henrietta Leyser]], Alexander Murray,<ref name="AlexanderMurray"/> Sir [[Anthony Kenny]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051103.shtml November 3, 2005] || '''[[Asteroids]]''' - celestial bodies from the beginning of time || [[Monica Grady]], Carolin Crawford,<ref name="CarolinCrawford"/> [[John Zarnecki]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051027.shtml October 27, 2005] || '''[[Samuel Johnson]] and His Circle''' - life with the professional man of letters || [[John Mullan]], Jim McLaverty,<ref name="JimMcLaverty"/> Judith Hawley<ref name="JudithHawley"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051020.shtml October 20, 2005] || '''[[Cynic]]ism''' - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy || [[Angie Hobbs]], Miriam Griffin,<ref>[[Miriam Griffin]], Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford</ref> John Moles<ref>[[John Moles]], Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051013.shtml October 13, 2005] || '''The Rise of the [[Mammals]]''' - life in a cold climate || Richard Corfield,<ref name="RichardCorfield"/> [[Steve Jones (biologist)|Steve Jones]], [[Jane Francis]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20051006.shtml October 6, 2005] || '''''[[Field of the Cloth of Gold]]''''' - a Renaissance entente cordiale || Steven Gunn,<ref>[[Steven Gunn (historian)|Steven Gunn]], Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University</ref> [[John Guy (historian)|John Guy]], Penny Roberts<ref name="PennyRoberts">[[Penny Roberts]], Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050929.shtml September 29, 2005] || '''[[Magnetism]]''' - an attractive history || Stephen Pumfrey,<ref name="StephenPumfrey"/> [[John Heilbron]], [[Lisa Jardine]] |- |} === 2005-2004 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title !! Contributors |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050714.shtml July 14, 2005] || '''[[Karl Marx]]''' - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher || [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Francis Wheen]], [[Gareth Stedman Jones]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050707.shtml July 7, 2005] || '''[[Christopher Marlowe]]''' - poet, spy, atheist, murder victim? || Katherine Duncan-Jones,<ref>[[Katherine Duncan-Jones]], Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty of Oxford University</ref> [[Jonathan Bate]], Emma Smith<ref>[[Emma Smith (academic)|Emma Smith]], Lecturer in English at Oxford University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050630.shtml June 30, 2005] || '''[[Merlin]]''' - the original Welsh wizard || Dr Juliette Wood,<ref name="JulietteWood"/> [[Stephen Knight]], Peter Forshaw<ref name="PeterForshaw"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050623.shtml June 23, 2005] || '''The [[KT Boundary]]''' - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away? || Simon Kelley,<ref>[[Simon Kelley]], Head of Department in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University</ref> [[Jane Francis]], Mike Benton<ref name="MikeBenton"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050616.shtml June 16, 2005] || '''[[Paganism]] in the [[Renaissance]]''' - how the classical gods returned to the Christian cities || Thomas Healy,<ref name="ThomasHealy"/> Charles Hope,<ref>[[Charles Hope (historian)|Charles Hope]], Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London</ref> Evelyn Welch<ref name="EvelynWelch">[[Evelyn Welch]], Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and author of ''Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050609.shtml June 9, 2005] || '''The [[Scriblerus Club]]''' - the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century || [[John Mullan]], Judith Hawley,<ref name="JudithHawley"/> Marcus Walsh<ref>[[Marcus Walsh]], Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050602.shtml June 2, 2005] || '''[[History of mathematics#European Renaissance mathematics (c. 1200—1600)|Renaissance Maths]]''' - the birth of modern mathematics? || Robert Kaplan,<ref name="RobertKaplan">[[Robert Kaplan (mathematician)|Robert Kaplan]], Co-founder of ''[[Mathcircle|The Math Circle]]'' at Harvard University, author of ''The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero'' (Oxford University Press, 2001) and co-author of ''The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers'' (Allen Lane, 2003)</ref> [[Jim Bennett (historian)|Jim Bennett]], Jackie Stedall<ref name="JackieStedall"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050526.shtml May 26, 2005] || '''[[Reign of Terror|The Terror]]''' - when Madame Guillotine ruled France || Mike Broers,<ref>[[Mike Broers]], Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall</ref> Rebecca Spang,<ref>[[Rebecca Spang]], Lecturer in Modern History at University College London</ref> [[T. C. W. Blanning]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050519.shtml May 19, 2005] || '''[[Beauty]]''' - the philosophy of beauty || [[Angie Hobbs]], Susan James,<ref>[[Susan James (philosopher)|Susan James]], Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London</ref> [[Julian Baggini]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050505.shtml May 5, 2005] || '''[[Abelard]] and [[Heloise (abbess)|Heloise]]''' - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris || [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Henrietta Leyser]], Michael Clanchy<ref>[[Michael Clanchy]], Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050428.shtml April 28, 2005] || '''[[Perception]] and the [[Senses]]''' - how do we see what we see? || [[Richard Gregory]], David Moore,<ref>[[David Moore (scientist)|David Moore]], Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham</ref> Gemma Calvert<ref>[[Gemma Calvert]], Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050421.shtml April 21, 2005] || '''''The [[Aeneid]]''''' - the Roman history of the world || [[Edith Hall]], Philip Hardie,<ref>[[Philip Hardie]], Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford</ref> Catharine Edwards<ref name="CatharineEdwards">[[Catharine Edwards (classicist)|Catharine Edwards]], Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050414.shtml April 14, 2005] || '''[[Archaeology]] and [[Imperialism]]''' - conquest of the past || Tim Champion,<ref>[[Tim Champion]], Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton</ref> Richard Parkinson<ref>[[Richard Parkinson (egyptologist)|Richard Parkinson]], Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum</ref>, [[Eleanor Robson]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050407.shtml April 7, 2005] || '''[[Alfred the Great|Alfred]] and the [[Battle of Edington]]''' - without Alfred, no England? || Dr Richard Gameson,<ref name="RichardGameson">Dr [[Richard Gameson]], Reader in Medieval History at Kent University and he is also editor of ''St Augustine and the Conversion of England'' (Sutton Publishing, 1999)</ref> [[Sarah Foot]], John Hines<ref name="JohnHines">[[John Hines]], Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050331.shtml March 31, 2005] || '''[[John Ruskin]]''' - a different kind of Victorian || Dinah Birch,<ref name="DinahBirch"/> Keith Hanley,<ref>[[Keith Hanley]], Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University</ref> Stefan Collini<ref>[[Stefan Collini]], Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050324.shtml March 24, 2005] || '''[[Angels]]''' - how they got their wings || [[Martin Palmer]], Valery Rees,<ref name="ValeryRees"/> John Haldane<ref>[[John Haldane (philosopher)|John Haldane]], Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050317.shtml March 17, 2005] || '''[[Dark Energy]]''' - the unknown force breaking the universe apart || Sir [[Martin Rees]], Carolin Crawford,<ref name="CarolinCrawford"/> Sir [[Roger Penrose]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050310.shtml March 10, 2005] || '''[[Modernist]] [[Utopias]]''' - the original 21st century || [[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]], Steve Connor,<ref>[[Steve Connor]], Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London</ref> Laura Marcus<ref>[[Laura Marcus]], Professor of English at the University of Sussex</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050303.shtml March 3, 2005] || '''[[Stoicism]]''' - the search for inner calm || [[Angie Hobbs]], [[Jonathan Rée]], David Sedley<ref>[[David Sedley]], Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050224.shtml February 24, 2005] || '''[[Alchemy]]''' - seeking the perfection of all things || Peter Forshaw,<ref name="PeterForshaw"/> Lauren Kassell,<ref name="LaurenKassell"/> Stephen Pumfrey<ref name="StephenPumfrey"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050217.shtml February 17, 2005] || '''The [[Cambrian Explosion]]''' - the big bang of evolutionary history || [[Simon Conway Morris]], Richard Corfield,<ref name="RichardCorfield"/> [[Jane Francis]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050113.shtml January 13, 2005] || '''The [[Philosophy of mind#The mind-body problem|Mind/Body Problem]]''' - does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind? || [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Julian Baggini]], Sue James<ref>[[Sue James]], Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050106.shtml January 6, 2005] || '''The [[Alexander II of Russia#Assassination|Assassination of Tsar Alexander II]]''' - did his killing cause the Russian Revolution? || [[Orlando Figes]], Dominic Lieven,<ref>[[Dominic Lieven]], Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics</ref> Catriona Kelly<ref name="CatrionaKelly">[[Catriona Kelly]], Professor of Russian at Oxford University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041230.shtml December 30, 2004] || '''The [[Roman Republic]]''' - what were Rome's republican ideals? || Greg Woolf,<ref name="GregWoolf">[[Greg Woolf]], Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University</ref> Catherine Steel,<ref>[[Catherine Steel]], Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.</ref> [[Tom Holland (author)|Tom Holland]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041223.shtml December 23, 2004] || '''''[[Faust]]''''' - the original pact with the Devil || Dr Juliette Wood,<ref name="JulietteWood"/> Osman Durrani,<ref>[[Osman Durrani]], Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury</ref> Rosemary Ashton<ref name="RosemaryAshton">[[Rosemary Ashton]], Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041216.shtml December 16, 2004] || '''The [[Second Law of Thermodynamics]]''' - the most important thing you will ever know || [[John Gribbin]], [[Peter Atkins]], [[Monica Grady]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041209.shtml December 9, 2004] || '''[[Machiavelli]] and the Italian City States''' - high politics and low cunning in the Italian Renaissance || [[Quentin Skinner]], Evelyn Welch,<ref name="EvelynWelch"/> [[Lisa Jardine]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041202.shtml December 2, 2004] || '''[[Carl Gustav Jung]]''' - Discovering the Self || Brett Kahr,<ref name="BrettKahr">[[Brett Kahr]], Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and a practising Freudian</ref> [[Ronald Hayman]], [[Andrew Samuels]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041125.shtml November 25, 2004] || '''The [[Venerable Bede]]''' - the father of English history || Dr Richard Gameson,<ref name="RichardGameson"/> [[Sarah Foot]], Dr Michelle Brown<ref name="MichelleBrown">Dr [[Michelle Brown]], Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and author of ''A Guide to Western Historical Scripts: From Antiquity to 1600'' (British Library Publishing, 1990)</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041118.shtml November 18, 2004] || '''[[Higgs Boson]]''' - the search for the God particle || [[Jim Al-Khalili]], David Wark<ref>[[David Wark (physicist)|David Wark]], Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory</ref>, [[Roger Cashmore]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041111.shtml November 11, 2004] || '''[[Zoroastrianism]]''' - was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism? || Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis,<ref>[[Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis]], Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum</ref> Farrokh Vajifdar,<ref>[[Farrokh Vajifdar]], Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a life-long student of Zoroastrianism</ref> Alan Williams<ref>[[Alan Williams (theologian)|Alan Williams]], Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041104.shtml November 4, 2004] || '''[[History of electricity|Electrickery]]''' - the origins of electricity || [[Simon Schaffer]], Patricia Fara,<ref name="PatriciaFara"/> Iwan Morus<ref name="IwanMorus"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041028.shtml October 28, 2004] || '''[[Rhetoric]]''' - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues || [[Angie Hobbs]], Thomas Healy,<ref name="ThomasHealy"/> Ceri Sullivan<ref>[[Ceri Sullivan]], Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041021.shtml October 21, 2004] || '''[[Witchcraft]]''' - Reformation Europe turned upon itself || Alison Rowlands,<ref name="AlisonRowlands">[[Alison Rowlands]], Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex</ref> [[Lyndal Roper]], Malcolm Gaskill<ref>[[Malcolm Gaskill]], Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041014.shtml October 14, 2004] || '''The [[Chinese philosophy|Han Synthesis]]''' - creating the Chinese cosmos || Dr Chris Cullen,<ref name="ChrisCullen"/> Carol Michaelson,<ref name="CarolMichaelson">[[Carol Michaelson]], Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum</ref> [[Roel Sterckx]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20041007.shtml October 7, 2004] || '''[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]''' - a man condemned to be free || [[Jonathan Rée]], Benedict O'Donohoe,<ref>[[Benedict O'Donohoe]], Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies</ref> Christina Howells<ref>[[Christina Howells]], Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040930.shtml September 30, 2004] || '''[[Politeness]]''' - the great 18th century craze || Amanda Vickery,<ref name="AmandaVickery">[[Amanda Vickery]], Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of ''The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England'' (Yale Nota Bene, 2003)</ref> David Wootton,<ref name="DavidWootton"/> [[John Mullan]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040923.shtml September 23, 2004] || '''The [[origin of life|Origins of Life]]''' - how it all began || [[Richard Dawkins]], Richard Corfield,<ref name="RichardCorfield"/> Linda Partridge<ref>[[Linda Partridge]], Biology and Biotechnology Research Council Professor at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040916.shtml September 16, 2004] || '''[[Agincourt]]''' - the real facts behind the battle. || Anne Curry,<ref name="AnneCurry"/> [[Michael Jones (historian)|Michael Jones]], John Watts<ref>[[John Watts (historian)|John Watts]], Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christie College, Oxford</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040909.shtml September 9, 2004] || '''''The [[Odyssey]]''''' - Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home || [[Simon Goldhill]], [[Edith Hall]], [[Oliver Taplin]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040902.shtml September 2, 2004] || '''[[Pi]]''' - the number that doesn't add up || Robert Kaplan<ref name="RobertKaplan"/>, [[Eleanor Robson]], [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]] |- |} === 2004-2003 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title !! Contributors |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040624.shtml June 24, 2004] || '''[[George Washington]] and the [[American Revolution]]''' - the most significant event in history || Carol Berkin,<ref>[[Carol Berkin]], Professor of History at The City University of New York and author of ''A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution'' (Harcourt, 2002)</ref> Simon Middleton,<ref>[[Simon Middleton]], Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia</ref> Colin Bonwick<ref>[[Colin Bonwick]], Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040617.shtml June 17, 2004] || '''[[Renaissance]] [[magic (paranormal)|Magic]]''' - the great passion of the age || Peter Forshaw,<ref name="PeterForshaw"/> Valery Rees,<ref name="ValeryRees"/> Jonathan Sawday<ref name="JonathanSawday"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040610.shtml June 10, 2004] || '''[[Empiricism]]''' - the English philosophy? || Judith Hawley,<ref name="JudithHawley"/> Murray Pittock,<ref name="MurrayPittock">[[Murray Pittock]], Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature at the University of Manchester</ref> [[Jonathan Rée]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040603.shtml June 3, 2004] || '''[[Babylon]]''' - the great forgotten civilisation || [[Eleanor Robson]], Irving Finkel<ref>[[Irving Finkel]], Curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the British Museum</ref>, [[Andrew R. George]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040527.shtml May 27, 2004] || '''[[Planets]]''' - the astronomy of the 21st century || Paul Murdin,<ref name="PaulMurdin">[[Paul Murdin]], Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge</ref> Hugh R. A. Jones,<ref>[[Hugh R. A. Jones]], Planet hunter and Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University</ref> Carolin Crawford<ref name="CarolinCrawford"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040520.shtml May 20, 2004] || '''[[Toleration]]''' - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom || [[Justin Champion]], David Wootton,<ref name="DavidWootton"/> Sarah Barber<ref>[[Sarah Barber]], Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040513.shtml May 13, 2004] || '''[[Zero]]''' - everything about nothing || Robert Kaplan,<ref name="RobertKaplan"/> [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]], [[Lisa Jardine]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040506.shtml May 6, 2004] || '''[[Heroism]]''' - do we live in an heroic age? || [[Angie Hobbs]], [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Paul Cartledge]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040429.shtml April 29, 2004] || '''[[Tea]]''' - an empire in a teacup || Huw Bowen,<ref name="HuwBowen">[[Huw Bowen]], Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester</ref> James Walvin,<ref>[[James Walvin]], Professor of History at the University of York and author of ''Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800'' (Macmillan, 1997)</ref> Amanda Vickery<ref name="AmandaVickery"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040422.shtml April 22, 2004] || '''[[Hysteria]]''' - the normal state of human beings? || [[Juliet Mitchell]], Rachel Bowlby,<ref>[[Rachel Bowlby]], Professor of English at the University of York who has written the introduction to the new Penguin translation of Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer's ''Studies in Hysteria'' (Penguin, 2004)</ref> Brett Kahr<ref name="BrettKahr"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040415.shtml April 15, 2004] || '''The Later [[Romantics]]''' - the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley || [[Jonathan Bate]], [[Robert Woof (scholar)|Robert Woof]], Jennifer Wallace<ref>[[Jennifer Wallace]], Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040408.shtml April 8, 2004] || '''[[The Fall of Man|The Fall]]''' - how Adam and Eve affect us all || [[Martin Palmer]], [[Griselda Pollock]], [[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040401.shtml April 1, 2004] || '''[[China]]: The [[Warring States Period]]''' - the fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation || Dr Chris Cullen,<ref name="ChrisCullen"/> Dr Vivienne Lo,<ref>Dr [[Vivienne Lo]], Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine</ref> Carol Michaelson<ref name="CarolMichaelson"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040325.shtml March 25, 2004] || '''[[Theories of Everything]]''' - still the holy grail of physics? || [[Brian Greene]], [[John D. Barrow]], Dr Val Gibson<ref>Dr [[Val Gibson]], Particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040318.shtml March 18, 2004] || '''''[[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'' || Charlotte Roueché,<ref>[[Charlotte Roueché]], historian of late antiquity at Kings College London</ref> David Womersley,<ref>[[David Womersley]], Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford and editor of Edward Gibbon's ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' (Penguin, 2000)</ref> Richard Alston<ref>[[Richard Alston (classicist)|Richard Alston]], Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040311.shtml March 11, 2004] || '''The [[Norse mythology|Norse Gods]]''' - the great myths of pagan Europe || Dr Carolyne Larrington,<ref name="CarolyneLarrington"/> Heather O'Donoghue,<ref>[[Heather O'Donoghue]], Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University</ref> John Hines<ref name="JohnHines"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040304.shtml March 4, 2004] || '''[[Dreams]]''' - is there a science of dreams? || Professor V S Ramachandran,<ref>Professor [[V S Ramachandran]], Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego</ref> Mark Solms,<ref>[[Mark Solms]], Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town</ref> Martin Conway<ref name="MartinConway">[[Martin Conway (psychologist)|Martin Conway]], Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040226.shtml February 26, 2004] || '''The [[Mughal Empire]]''' - the glory of India || Sanjay Subrahmanyam,<ref>[[Sanjay Subrahmanyam]], Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford</ref> Susan Stronge,<ref>[[Susan Stronge]], Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London</ref> Chandrika Kaul<ref>[[Chandrika Kaul]], Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040219.shtml February 19, 2004] || '''[[Ernest Rutherford|Rutherford]]''' - the father of nuclear physics || [[Simon Schaffer]], [[Jim Al-Khalili]], Patricia Fara<ref name="PatriciaFara"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040212.shtml February 12, 2004] || '''The [[Sublime (philosophy)|Sublime]]''' - defining the state of awe || [[Janet Todd]], Annie Janowitz,<ref>[[Annie Janowitz]], Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London</ref> Peter de Bolla<ref>[[Peter de Bolla]], Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040205.shtml February 5, 2004] || '''The [[Battle of Thermopylae]]''' - battle that defined East and West || [[Tom Holland (author)|Tom Holland]], [[Simon Goldhill]], [[Edith Hall]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20040129.shtml January 29, 2004] || '''[[Cryptography]]''' - secret history of ciphers and codes || [[Simon Singh]], Professor Fred Piper,<ref>Professor [[Fred Piper]], Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and co-author of ''Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction'' (co-written with Sean Murphy, Oxford Paperbacks, 2002)</ref> [[Lisa Jardine]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031226.shtml December 26, 2003] || '''[[Lamarck]] and [[Natural Selection]]''' - the Lamarckian Heresy || Sandy Knapp,<ref name="SandyKnapp">[[Sandy Knapp]], Senior Botanist at the Natural History Museum</ref> [[Steve Jones (biologist)|Steve Jones]], [[Simon Conway Morris]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031218.shtml December 18, 2003] || '''The [[Alphabet]]''' - its creation and development || [[Eleanor Robson]], [[Alan Millard]], Rosalind Thomas<ref>[[Rosalind Thomas]], Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031211.shtml December 11, 2003] || '''The [[Devil]]''' - a brief biography || [[Martin Palmer]], Alison Rowlands,<ref name="AlisonRowlands"/> David Wootton<ref name="DavidWootton"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031204.shtml December 4, 2003] || '''[[Wittgenstein]]''' - a philosophy of linguistics || [[Ray Monk]], Barry Smith,<ref name="BarrySmith"/> Marie McGinn<ref>[[Marie McGinn]], Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031127.shtml November 27, 2003] || '''[[St Bartholomew's Day Massacre]]''' - slaughter in Paris. || [[Diarmaid MacCulloch]], Mark Greengrass,<ref>[[Mark Greengrass]], Professor of History at the University of Sheffield</ref> Penny Roberts<ref name="PennyRoberts"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031120.shtml November 20, 2003] || '''[[age of the Earth|Ageing the Earth]]''' - a journey in geological time. || Richard Corfield,<ref name="RichardCorfield"/> Hazel Rymer,<ref>[[Hazel Rymer]], Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University</ref> [[Henry Gee]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031113.shtml November 13, 2003] || '''[[Duty]]''' - concepts of obligation. || [[Angie Hobbs]], Annabel Brett,<ref name="AnnabelBrett"/> [[A. C. Grayling]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031106.shtml November 6, 2003] || '''[[Sensation novel|Sensation]]''' - the best sellers of the 19th century. || [[John Mullan]], Lyn Pykett,<ref>[[Lyn Pykett]], Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth</ref> Dinah Birch<ref name="DinahBirch"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031030.shtml October 30, 2003] || '''[[Robin Hood]]''' - the greatest of English myths. || [[Stephen Knight]], Thomas Hahn,<ref>[[Thomas Hahn]], Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York</ref> Dr Juliette Wood<ref name="JulietteWood"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031023.shtml October 23, 2003] || '''[[Infinity]]''' - a brief history. || [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]], Robert Kaplan,<ref name="RobertKaplan"/> Sarah Rees<ref>[[Sarah Rees]], Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031016.shtml October 16, 2003] || '''The [[East-West Schism|Schism]]''' - between East and West in Christianity. || [[Henrietta Leyser]], [[Norman Housley]], [[Jonathan Shepard]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031009.shtml October 9, 2003] || '''[[Bohemianism]]''' - a life of art, freedom and poverty || [[Hermione Lee]], Virginia Nicholson,<ref>[[Virginia Nicholson]], author of ''Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939'' (Viking, 2002. Paperback will be published by Penguin, November 2003)</ref> [[Graham Robb]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031002.shtml October 2, 2003] || '''[[James Clerk Maxwell]]''' - great 19th century physicist || [[Simon Schaffer]], Peter Harman,<ref>[[Peter Harman]], Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and editor of ''The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell'' (3 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 1995, 2002)</ref> Joanna Haigh<ref>[[Joanna Haigh]], Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London</ref> |- |} === 2003-2002 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title !! Contributors |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030717.shtml July 17, 2003] || '''The [[Book of Revelation|Apocalypse]]''' - was it a revelation? || [[Martin Palmer]], Marina Benjamin,<ref>[[Marina Benjamin]], journalist and author of ''Living at the End of the World'' (Picador, 1999)</ref> [[Justin Champion]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030710.shtml July 10, 2003] || '''[[Nature]]''' - from Homer to Darwin || [[Jonathan Bate]], [[Roger Scruton]], Karen Edwards<ref name="KarenEdwards">[[Karen Edwards]], Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030703.shtml July 3, 2003] || '''[[Vulcanology]]''' - significance of volcanoes. || Hilary Downes,<ref>[[Hilary Downes]], Professor of Geochemistry at Birkbeck, University of London</ref> Steve Self,<ref>[[Steve Self (vulcanologist)|Steve Self]], Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University</ref> [[Bill McGuire]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030626.shtml June 26, 2003] || '''The [[East India Co]]''' - a corporate route to Empire. || Huw Bowen,<ref name="HuwBowen"/> [[Linda Colley]], [[Maria Misra]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030619.shtml June 19, 2003] || '''The [[Aristocracy]]''' - how the ruling class survives || [[David Cannadine]], Rosemary Sweet,<ref>[[Rosemary Sweet]], Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester</ref> [[Felipe Fernández-Armesto]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030612.shtml June 12, 2003] || '''The [[Military strategy|Art of War]]''' - maintaining the objective? || Sir [[Michael Howard (historian)|Michael Howard]], [[Angie Hobbs]], [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030605.shtml June 5, 2003] || '''The [[Lunar Society]]''' - scientific ferment 200 years ago. || [[Simon Schaffer]], [[Jenny Uglow]], Peter Jones<ref>[[Peter Jones (historian)|Peter Jones]], Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030529.shtml May 29, 2003] || '''[[Memory]]''' - and the brain || Martin Conway,<ref name="MartinConway"/> Mike Kopelman,<ref>[[Mike Kopelman]], Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas' Hospital</ref> Kim Graham<ref>[[Kim Graham (scientist)|Kim Graham]], Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030522.shtml May 22, 2003] || '''[[Blood]]''' - its religious, medical and moral significance || [[Miri Rubin]], Dr Anne Hardy,<ref name="AnneHardy"/> Jonathan Sawday<ref name="JonathanSawday"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030515.shtml May 15, 2003] || '''The [[Holy Grail]]''' - just a medieval myth? || Dr Carolyne Larrington,<ref name="CarolyneLarrington"/> [[Jonathan Riley-Smith]], Dr Juliette Wood<ref name="JulietteWood"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030508.shtml May 8, 2003] || '''The [[Jacobite Rebellion]]''' - could it have succeeded? || Murray Pittock,<ref name="MurrayPittock"/> Stana Nenadic,<ref>[[Stana Nenadic]], Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University</ref> Allan Macinnes<ref>[[Allan Macinnes]], Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030501.shtml May 1, 2003] || '''[[Roman Britain]]''' - the effects of 400 years of occupation || Greg Woolf,<ref name="GregWoolf"/> [[Mary Beard (classicist)|Mary Beard]], Catharine Edwards<ref name="CatharineEdwards"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030424.shtml April 24, 2003] || '''[[Youth]]''' - from Adonis to James Dean || Tim Whitmarsh,<ref>[[Tim Whitmarsh]], Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at Exeter University</ref> Thomas Healy,<ref name="ThomasHealy"/> Deborah Thom<ref>[[Deborah Thom]], Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030417.shtml April 17, 2003] || '''[[Proust]]''' - his life and work || [[Jacqueline Rose]], [[Malcolm Bowie]], Dr Robert Fraser<ref>Dr [[Robert Fraser (critic)|Robert Fraser]], Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of ''Proust and the Victorians'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994)</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030403.shtml April 3, 2003] || '''The [[Spanish Civil War]]''' - causes and legacy || [[Paul Preston]], Helen Graham,<ref>[[Helen Graham (professor)|Helen Graham]], Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London</ref> Dr Mary Vincent<ref>Dr [[Mary Vincent]], Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030327.shtml March 27, 2003] || '''[[Supernovas]]''' - the life cycle of stars || Paul Murdin,<ref name="PaulMurdin"/> [[Janna Levin]], Phil Charles<ref>[[Phil Charles]], Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030320.shtml March 20, 2003] || '''[[Originality]]''' - is it just a romantic notion? || [[John Deathridge]], [[Jonathan Rée]], Professor Catherine Belsey<ref>Professor [[Catherine Belsey]], Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030313.shtml March 13, 2003] || '''[[Redemption (religious)|Redemption]]''' - the concept of salvation || [[Richard Harries]], Janet Soskice,<ref name="JanetSoskice">[[Janet Soskice]], Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University</ref> [[Stephen Mulhall]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030306.shtml March 6, 2003] || '''[[Meteorology]]''' - why does it still fascinate us? || Vladimir Jankovic,<ref>[[Vladimir Jankovic]], Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University and author of ''Reading the Skies'' (Manchester University Press, 2001)</ref> Richard Hamblyn,<ref>[[Richard Hamblyn]], writer and author of ''The Invention of Clouds'' (Picador, 2002)</ref> Liba Taub<ref>[[Liba Taub]], Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge University and author of a new book called ''Ancient Meteorology'' (Routledge)</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030227.shtml February 27, 2003] || '''The [[Aztecs]]''' - looking behind the myths || [[Alan Knight (historian)|Alan Knight]], Adrian Locke,<ref>[[Adrian Locke]], co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts</ref> Elizabeth Graham<ref>[[Elizabeth Graham (academic)|Elizabeth Graham]], Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030220.shtml February 20, 2003] || '''The [[Lindisfarne Gospels]]''' - unifying Christianity in Britain || Dr Michelle Brown,<ref name="MichelleBrown"/> Dr Richard Gameson,<ref name="RichardGameson"/> Professor Clare Lees<ref>Professor [[Clare Lees]], Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London and author of ''Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030213.shtml February 13, 2003] || '''[[Natural selection|Chance]] and [[Intelligent designer|Design]] in [[Evolution]]''' - Design in Nature || [[Simon Conway Morris]], Sandy Knapp,<ref name="SandyKnapp"/> [[John Hedley Brooke]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20030206.shtml February 6, 2003] || '''The [[Epic poetry|Epic]]''' - from Homer to Joyce || [[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]], Karen Edwards,<ref name="KarenEdwards"/> [[Oliver Taplin]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021219.shtml December 19, 2002] || '''The [[Calendar]]''' - a history of the Calendar || Robert Poole,<ref>[[Robert Poole (historian)|Robert Poole]], Reader in History at St Martin's College Lancaster and author of ''Time's Alteration, Calendar Reform in Early Modern England''</ref> Kristen Lippincott,<ref name="KristenLippincott"/> [[Peter Watson (intellectual historian)|Peter Watson]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021212.shtml December 12, 2002] || '''[[Disease]]''' - the fight against diseases and plagues || Dr Anne Hardy,<ref name="AnneHardy"/> David Bradley,<ref>[[David Bradley (epidemiologist)|David Bradley]], Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine</ref> Dr Chris Dye<ref name="ChrisDye"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021205.shtml December 5, 2002] || '''The [[Scottish Enlightenment]]''' - how enlightened? || Professor [[Tom Devine]], Karen O'Brien,<ref>[[Karen O'Brien]], Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick</ref> Alexander Broadie<ref name="AlexanderBroadie"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021128.shtml November 28, 2002] || '''[[Imagination]]''' - just what is it? || Dr Susan Stuart,<ref>Dr [[Susan Stuart]], Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Glasgow.</ref> [[Steven Mithen]], [[Semir Zeki]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021121.shtml November 21, 2002] || '''[[Córdoba, Spain|Cordoba]] and [[Muslim Spain]]''' - a culture of tolerance? || [[Tim Winter]], [[Martin Palmer]], Mehri Niknam<ref>[[Mehri Niknam]], Executive Director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London.</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021114.shtml November 14, 2002] || '''Victorian [[Literary realism|Realism]]''' - how real? || Philip Maurice Davis,<ref>[[Philip Maurice Davis]], Reader in English Literature at the University of Liverpool and author of ''The Victorians'', a volume of the ''New Oxford English Literary History'' (Oxford University Press 2002)</ref> [[A.N. Wilson]], Dinah Birch<ref name="DinahBirch"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021107.shtml November 7, 2002] || '''[[Human nature|Human Nature]]''' - innate or nurtured? || [[Steven Pinker]], [[Janet Radcliffe Richards]], [[John N. Gray]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021031.shtml October 31, 2002] || '''[[Architecture]] and Power''' - imagery of imperialism || [[Adrian Tinniswood]], [[Gavin Stamp]], Gillian Darley<ref>[[Gillian Darley]], Architectural historian and biographer of ''John Soane, An Accidental Romantic'' (Yale University Press; ISBN 0300086954)</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021024.shtml October 24, 2002] || '''The [[Scientist]] in History''' - missionary or monster? || [[John Gribbin]], Patricia Fara,<ref name="PatriciaFara"/> [[Hugh Pennington]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20021017.shtml October 17, 2002] || '''[[Slavery]] and [[Empire]]''' - were Britons also captives? || [[Linda Colley]], [[Catherine Hall]], [[Felipe Fernández-Armesto]] |- |} === 2002 === {| class="wikitable" |- ! Broadcast date !! Title !! Contributors |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020718.shtml July 18, 2002] || '''[[History]] of [[Cultural heritage|Heritage]] || [[David Cannadine]], [[Miri Rubin]], [[Peter Mandler]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020711.shtml July 11, 2002] || '''[[Psychoanalysis]]''' - do people crave dictatorship? || [[Adam Phillips (psychologist)|Adam Phillips]], Sally Alexander,<ref>[[Sally Alexander]], Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London</ref> [[Malcolm Bowie]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020704.shtml July 4, 2002] || '''[[Freedom (political)|Freedom]]''' - a principle worth fighting and dying for? || [[John Keane (British political theorist)|John Keane]], [[Bernard Williams]], Annabel Brett<ref name="AnnabelBrett"/> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020627.shtml June 27, 2002] || '''[[Cultural Imperialism]]''' - should we try to prevent it? || [[Linda Colley]], Phillip Dodd,<ref>[[Phillip Dodd]], Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts</ref> [[Mary Beard (classicist)|Mary Beard]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020620.shtml June 20, 2002] || '''[[Richard Wagner]]''' - his influence on the German spirit. || [[John Deathridge]], Lucy Beckett,<ref>[[Lucy Beckett]], Author of ''Richard Wagner: Parsifal''</ref> Michael Tanner<ref>[[Michael Tanner]], Philosopher and author of ''Wagner and Nietzsche''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020613.shtml June 13, 2002] || '''The [[American West]]''' - was it an "experiment of liberty"? || Frank Mclynn,<ref>[[Frank Mclynn]], Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Strathclyde, author of a new book ''Wagon's West - The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails''</ref> [[Jenni Calder]], [[Christopher Frayling]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020606.shtml June 6, 2002] || '''The [[Soul]]''' - the key to our individuality as humans? || Richard Sorabji,<ref>[[Richard Sorabji]], Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College</ref> [[Ruth Padel]], [[Martin Palmer]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020530.shtml May 30, 2002] || '''The [[Grand Tour]]''' - what drove this desire for travel? || Chloe Chard,<ref>[[Chloe Chard]], Literary historian and author of Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour</ref> [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], Edward Chaney<ref>[[Edward Chaney]], Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Institute and author of ''A Traveller's Companion to Florence''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020523.shtml May 23, 2002] || '''History of [[Drugs]]''' - their role in medicine and the arts || [[Richard Davenport-Hines]], [[Sadie Plant]], Mike Jay<ref>[[Mike Jay (historian)|Mike Jay]], Historian and author of ''Emperors of Dreams, Drugs in the Nineteenth Century'', Dedalus Ltd</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020516.shtml May 16, 2002] || '''[[Chaos Theory]]''' - ws the universe chaotic or orderly? || [[Susan Greenfield]], [[David Papineau]], Neil Johnson<ref>[[Neil Johnson (physicist)|Neil Johnson]], University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020509.shtml May 9, 2002] || '''The [[Socratic method|Examined Life]]''' - is an unexamined life worth living? || Dr [[A. C. Grayling]], [[Janet Radcliffe Richards]], [[Julian Baggini]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020502.shtml May 2, 2002] || '''[[Schrodinger's Cat]]''' - Quantum Mechanics || [[Roger Penrose]], [[Fay Dowker]], Tony Sudbery<ref>[[Tony Sudbery]], Professor of Mathematics, University of York</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020425.shtml April 25, 2002] || '''[[Tolstoy]]''' - the influence of the Russian Novel || [[A. N. Wilson]], Catriona Kelly,<ref name="CatrionaKelly"/> Sarah Hudspith<ref>[[Sarah Hudspith]], Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020411.shtml April 11, 2002] || '''[[Bohemia]]''' - what did it mean to be Bohemian? || [[Norman Davies]], [[Karin Friedrich]], Robert Pynsent<ref>[[Robert Pynsent]], Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature, University College London, author of ''Decadence and Innovation: Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020404.shtml April 4, 2002] || '''[[Extraterrestial life|ET]]''' - new life within our solar system || Simon Goodwin,<ref>[[Simon Goodwin (astronomer)|Simon Goodwin]], Researcher in Astronomy, Cardiff University, co-author of ''XTL: Extraterrestrial life and how to find it''</ref> [[Heather Couper]], [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020328.shtml March 28, 2002] || '''The [[Artist]]''' - a special kind of human being? || Emma Barker,<ref>[[Emma Barker]], Lecturer in Art History at The Open University</ref> Thomas Healy,<ref name="ThomasHealy"/> [[T. C. W. Blanning]] |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020321.shtml March 21, 2002] || '''[[Marriage]]''' - its various forms and the role of the State || Janet Soskice,<ref name="JanetSoskice"/> Frederik Pedersen,<ref>[[Frederik Pedersen]], Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University</ref> Christina Hardyment<ref>[[Christina Hardyment]], Social historian and journalist</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020314.shtml March 14, 2002] || '''[[Buddhism]]''' - why has it captured the spirit of our age? || Peter Harvey,<ref>[[Peter Harvey (academic)|Peter Harvey]], Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland</ref> Kate Crosby,<ref>[[Kate Crosby]], Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS)</ref> Mahinda Deagallee<ref>[[Mahinda Deagallee]], Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020307.shtml March 7, 2002] || '''[[John Milton]]''' - poet or politician? || [[John Carey (critic)|John Carey]], [[Lisa Jardine]], Blair Worden<ref>[[Blair Worden]], Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sussex and author of ''Roundhead Reputations - The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020228.shtml February 28, 2002] || '''[[Virtue]]''' - is it derived from reason? || [[Galen Strawson]], [[Miranda Fricker]], Roger Crisp<ref>[[Roger Crisp]], Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford.</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020221.shtml February 21, 2002] || '''The [[Celts]]''' - what were the Celts in Britain really like? || [[Barry Cunliffe]], Alistair Moffat,<ref>[[Alistair Moffat]], Writer and Historian and author of ''The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland''</ref> Miranda Aldhouse Green<ref>[[Miranda Aldhouse Green]], Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales and author of ''Dying for the Gods''</ref> |- | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020214.shtml February 14, 2002] || '''[[Anatomy]]''' - 2000 years of anatomical study || Harold Ellis,<ref>[[Harold Ellis (anatomist)|Harold Ellis]], Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London</ref> Ruth Richardson,<ref>[[Ruth Richardson (historian)|Ruth Richardson]], Historian, and author of ''Death, Dissection and the Destitute'', Phoenix Press</ref> Andrew Cunningham<ref>[[Andrew Cunningham (scientist)|Andrew Cunningham]], Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University</ref> |- |} ==Contributors== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime In Our Time] at the BBC website [[Category:BBC radio programmes]]