In Our Time
Episodes
The Brain and Consciousness
19 Nov 1998
Contributed by Lukas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how our increased knowledge of the functioning of the brain and the mechanisms of memory in the 20th century has chang...
The City in the 20th Century
12 Nov 1998
Contributed by Lukas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the artistic, cultural and innovative developments of the city in the 20th century and is joined by two practitioners ...
Science in the 20th century
05 Nov 1998
Contributed by Lukas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how perceptions of science and the power of science have changed in the 20th century. Does scientific endeavour increa...
Science's Revelations
29 Oct 1998
Contributed by Lukas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the mass of scientific understanding and knowledge we have accumulated has destroyed our sense of poetic wonde...
Politics in the 20th Century
22 Oct 1998
Contributed by Lukas
Melvyn Bragg talks to Gore Vidal and Alan Clarke about the future of the nation-state; is the concept dead and buried? And what is the relationship b...
War in the 20th Century
15 Oct 1998
Contributed by Lukas
In the first programme of a new series examining ideas and events which have shaped thinking in philosophy, religion, science and the arts, Melvyn Bra...