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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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
The Global Story - The soft power superpower, with Roman Mars
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The Evolution of Trees
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The Welsh Marches
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Red Book of Hergest
Unknown
the most famous of them is probably the red book of hergeest which some of the audience might have heard of and it's really an anthology of pretty much most of the canonical medieval welsh literature that we still have surviving ▶ tap to play from here
The Levellers
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
the source that lilburn quotes most often apart from the bible is parliament's own book of declarations that it issued in march ▶ tap to play from here
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
clarendon actually accuses hobbes at one point of having written leviathan in order to flatter the delight that the common people have in the word equality ▶ tap to play from here
The Garamantes
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The Histories
Herodotus
is this in his book the histories exactly in his book the histories yes ▶ tap to play from here
Joseph Roth
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Cybernetics
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Indian Indentured Labour
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M.C. Escher
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