In Our Time - Complete 2009 Season (BBC Radio)

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In Our Time - 2009



BBC Radio 4

64kbps 44kHz mono

Source: MP3 downloads from the BBC website



31 hours 57 mins (46 episodes of approx 42 mins)



In Our Time is a long-running live BBC radio programme in which Melvyn Bragg guides three expert guests through a 40 minute discussion of the week's subject. The show's tag-line is "exploring the history of ideas" and subject matter jumps eclectically from science to history, literature, religion and philosophy. The experts are almost always erudite and able to explain the sometimes-complex material so as to be understandable to the reasonably educated layman.



Notes

This torrent includes all 46 episodes of In Our Time that were broadcast in 2009.

There was no programme on 17 December.2009-01-01 The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius

2009-01-05 Darwin Special Part 1

2009-01-06 Darwin Special Part 2

2009-01-07 Darwin Special Part 3

2009-01-08 Darwin Special Part 4

2009-01-15 Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness

2009-01-22 A History of History - how the writing of history has evolved

2009-01-29 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - 18th century satire gets close to the bone

2009-02-05 The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm - but not as we know them

2009-02-12 The Destruction of Carthage - "Delenda Carthago!"

2009-02-19 The Observatory at Jaipur - Indian astronomy on the cusp of colonialism

2009-02-26 The Waste Land and Modernity - "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"

2009-03-05 The Measurement Problem in Physics - Man is not the measure of all things

2009-03-12 The Library of Alexandria - of all the books in all the world...

2009-03-19 The Boxer Rebellion - "Kill all Foreigners!"

2009-03-26 The School of Athens - picturing Greece in Renaissance minds

2009-04-02 Baconian Science - Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science

2009-04-09 Brave New World - would Soma, free love and the feelies be so bad?

2009-04-16 Suffragism - the long march towards votes for women

2009-04-23 The Building of St Petersburg - "a window through which Russia looks on Europe"

2009-04-30 The Vacuum of Space - a programme about nothing?

2009-05-07 Magna Carta - foundation of law or rich man's charter?

2009-05-14 The Siege of Vienna - a clash of civilisations?

2009-05-21 The Whale: A History

2009-05-28 St Paul - the first Christian

2009-06-04 The Trial of Charles I - the original courtroom drama

2009-06-11 The Augustan Age - art and propaganda at the birth of the Roman Empire

2009-06-18 Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy - theatre of blood

2009-06-25 The Sunni-Shia Split - after Muhammad

2009-07-02 Logical Positivism - or is it?

2009-07-09 The Ediacara Biota - the first animals?

2009-09-17 St Thomas Aquinas - his profound influence on Western faith and philosophy

2009-09-24 Leibniz vs Newton - who first calculated the calculus?

2009-10-01 Akhenaten - history's first individual

2009-10-08 The Dreyfus Affair - the scandal that tore France apart

2009-10-15 The Death of Elizabeth I - plots, plague and politics

2009-10-22 The Geological Formation of Britain - our long journey north

2009-10-29 Schopenhauer - the tyranny of the Will

2009-11-05 The Siege of Münster - Apocalypse 1535

2009-11-12 The Discovery of Radiation - from radio waves to gamma rays

2009-11-19 Sparta - the anti-Athens

2009-11-26 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce's early masterpiece

2009-12-03 The Silk Road - from Dunhuang to Samarkand

2009-12-10 Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans - maths and mysticism

2009-12-24 The Samurai - from civil warriors to civil servants

2009-12-31 Mary Wollstonecraft - the Vindicator of the Rights of Woman.

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