In Our Time: Religion

BBC Radio 4

Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.

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20 episodes
Updated May 15, 2025

Episodes20

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May 15, 2025 · 50 min
Typology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.
Mar 27, 2025 · 57 min
Kali
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms
Feb 27, 2025 · 46 min
Pope Joan
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of Pope Joan.
Jul 18, 2024 · 50 min
Karma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
Apr 18, 2024 · 50 min
Julian the Apostate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
Jan 4, 2024 · 55 min
Karl Barth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
Nov 16, 2023 · 50 min
Julian of Norwich
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
Jun 1, 2023 · 48 min
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
Apr 6, 2023 · 49 min
The Ramayana
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Feb 9, 2023 · 51 min
John Donne
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Jul 21, 2022 · 49 min
Angkor Wat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
Jun 16, 2022 · 56 min
Comenius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
May 26, 2022 · 53 min
Early Christian Martyrdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
Apr 28, 2022 · 55 min
The Sistine Chapel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
Apr 15, 2021 · 50 min
Arianism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
Feb 18, 2021 · 50 min
Medieval Pilgrimage
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Jan 28, 2021 · 56 min
Saint Cuthbert
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
Dec 10, 2020 · 51 min
John Wesley and Methodism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
Oct 8, 2020 · 48 min
Deism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
Mar 12, 2020 · 53 min
The Covenanters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.