In Our Time
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world. History fans can learn about pivotal wars and societal upheavals, such as the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Sack of Rome in 1527, and the politica
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Particle Accelerators
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Archive: Erasmus
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Utopia
Thomas More
my guests and i discussed the most famous work of sir thomas moore ▶ tap to play from here
Novum Instrumentum omne
Erasmus
his own edition of the new testament it came out in fifteen sixteen ▶ tap to play from here
In Praise of Folly
Desiderius Erasmus
a notable work at the time which was raised through europe as a bestseller we can call it that in praise of folly ▶ tap to play from here
Thomas More's Utopia
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Utopia
Thomas More
in fifteen sixteen a small book was published with a curious new word as its title utopia ▶ tap to play from here
The Republic
Plato
morris meets him outside a church after after math and that is an echo of the beginning of plato's republic ▶ tap to play from here
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
and this conversation and this idea is referenced by karl marx in das capital ▶ tap to play from here
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
Thomas More
he wrote the what he called the dialogue of comfort against tribulation which is an attempt for once rather than to have a humanist dialogue where you consider both sides and then go into dinner ▶ tap to play from here
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
machiavelli publishes the prince to what extent is the prince in dialogue with with more ▶ tap to play from here
De Officiis
Cicero
cicero's deafies is an absolute core text you know this this foundational roman text of what it what is it to be good ▶ tap to play from here
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
you see then later on in things like gulliver's travels ▶ tap to play from here
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
nineteen eighty four fahrenheit four five one the handmaid's tail ▶ tap to play from here
Beware the Cat
William Baldwin
in f fifteen fifty two so it's a year after the first english translation there's william baldwin writes a book called beware the cat ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: The Measurement of Time
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Archive: Trinity
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Gospel of John
Unknown
the gospel of john somehow jesus says i and the father are one ▶ tap to play from here
Acts of the Apostles
Luke the Evangelist
we get very early on for instance in the book of acts trinitarian invocations ▶ tap to play from here
Book of Common Prayer
Thomas Cranmer
it's still actually authorized by the book of common prayer to be used on certain occasions ▶ tap to play from here
Epistle to the Hebrews
Unknown
you find it in the epistle to the hebrews for example ▶ tap to play from here
Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
go to uh not bernard of clairvaux but dante at the end of the comedian where he has the vision of the divine ▶ tap to play from here
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich
wrote m this marvelous book which is the the first book of any sort we have in in english she may have dictated it she may have just meant she didn't know latin but she knew a lot of theology in this book her showings ▶ tap to play from here
Quran
Traditional
a verse in the quran which says you know those who believe in the trinity are wrong ▶ tap to play from here
Church Dogmatics
Karl Barth
his whole kind of church dogmatics has been central to that ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Emma
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Emma
Jane Austen
i've picked jane austen's novel emma described by melvin's guests as the author's masterpiece ▶ tap to play from here
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
brought out a novel by an anonymous writer identified as the author of pride and prejudice etcetera etcetera ▶ tap to play from here
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
drafts or first versions of um sense and sensibility pride and prejudice in north anger abbey ▶ tap to play from here
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
sense and sensibility pride and prejudice in north anger abbey ▶ tap to play from here
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
and then finally they got to this little house this cottage in shawton which um was part of the estate of her brother edward and um and it's at that point that she took out her manuscript started to revise them and away she went with her career um with sense and sensibility pride and prejudice in mansfield park ▶ tap to play from here
Persuasion
Jane Austen
persuasion may well and i think has not being entirely revised ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: The War of 1812
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Archive: Rosalind Franklin
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson
that was really really important to him and he wrote about that quite openly later ▶ tap to play from here
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
next week we'll be discussing the ancient chinese warrior and philosopher sun tzu known as the author of the art of war ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Plato's Republic
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Republic
Plato
i've chosen plato's republic whose claim to be the foundation text of western philosophy is arguably stronger than all its competitors ▶ tap to play from here
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
which struck me as similar to the thinking of john stuart mills on liberty one of the first in our times that i recall recorded ▶ tap to play from here
In Our Time Returns for a New Series
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Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi
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Soul Stealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Philip Kuhn
the great historian philip kuhn wrote his book soul stealers about this particular phenomenon ▶ tap to play from here
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Confucius as a Reformer
Kang Youwei
he wrote a great essay still read called confucius as a reformer ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Plate Tectonics
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The Iliad
Homer
and in this new series we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of homer the iliad and the odyssey ▶ tap to play from here
The Odyssey
Homer
and in this new series we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of homer the iliad and the odyssey ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Hatshepsut
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The Iliad
Homer
every episode i pair up a top historian with a fantastic comedian and we have a lovely funny fascinating chat about a different subject from world history and in this new series we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of homer the iliad and the odyssey ▶ tap to play from here
The Odyssey
Homer
every episode i pair up a top historian with a fantastic comedian and we have a lovely funny fascinating chat about a different subject from world history and in this new series we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of homer the iliad and the odyssey ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Coffee
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Pockets (from Here For The History)
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
this is loosely based on the opening lines of pride and prejudice her most famous novel ▶ tap to play from here
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives
Barbara Burman and Ariane Fenneteau
and i actually came across this story and all sorts of other great facts in a book publishedly called the pocket a hidden history of women's lives written by historians barbara berman and ariane feneteau ▶ tap to play from here
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
Hannah Carlson
and we talked to a pocket historian hannah carlson who wrote this wonderfully expansive book pockets an intimate history of how we keep things close ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Aphra Behn
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Oroonoko
Aphra Behn
well as john said it's it seems likely that it's the this connection with thomas killigrew um we know that in her novel that she publishes in sixteen eighty eight called or orinoco um jan um afra ben mentions that she sent some indian feathers from suriname to killigrew to the king's company for a performance ▶ tap to play from here
Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Aphra Behn
even in a a wonderful work that she it's an anonymous work called love letters um she has a woman who moves from being the virgin the desirable virgin into being um a a free woman but in the end she's a sort of wandering whore ▶ tap to play from here
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
in that respect you could see it as as presaging a a novel like heart of darkness like marlow in heart of darkness ▶ tap to play from here
The Widow Ranter
Aphra Behn
there's another light play the w the widow ran to set in virginia now what's she doing there and why is she setting it in virginia ▶ tap to play from here
The Patient Fancy
Aphra Behn
yes i think that she says that in the play that comes immediately after the rover the patient fancy where there's a scene in which um the wife of sir patient fancy ▶ tap to play from here
The Country Wife
William Wycherley
people say this about the country wife and the man of mode as well ▶ tap to play from here
The Man of Mode
George Etherege
people say this about the country wife and the man of mode as well ▶ tap to play from here
Seashells
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Vigée Le Brun
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Memoirs
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
so she writes very beautifully about her father in her memoirs she's obviously very close with him ▶ tap to play from here
The Delian League
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The Histories
Herodotus
the other big source is thucydides well his subject is the war which broke out in four thirty one ▶ tap to play from here
Machado de Assis
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Machado de Assis
let's look at one of machado's most famous works that's the posthumous memoirs of uh bras cubas ▶ tap to play from here
Helena
Machado de Assis
and the third and fourth have female protagonists and female and they the titles are female names elena and yaya garcia ▶ tap to play from here
Yayá Garcia
Machado de Assis
and the third and fourth have female protagonists and female and they the titles are female names elena and yaya garcia ▶ tap to play from here
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis
that title dom kazmur has a double meaning which we can talk about later tell us now what it means ▶ tap to play from here
Othello
William Shakespeare
it doesn't sound like the way a lot of people describe it which is a modern othello is that right and why is it compared to othello ▶ tap to play from here
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
we can compare to james joyce and also lord jim by by conrad ▶ tap to play from here
The Alienist
Machado de Assis
and in a way when mashad jaciz wrote stories like the alienist to walienist he was trying to criticize also these new scientists ▶ tap to play from here
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