In Our Time: Science

BBC Radio 4

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

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293 episodes
Updated February 19

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Nov 9, 2000 · 42 min
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Nov 2, 2000 · 28 min
Evolutionary Psychology
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
Oct 19, 2000 · 28 min
Laws of Nature
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
Jun 29, 2000 · 42 min
Imagination and Consciousness
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
May 25, 2000 · 28 min
Chemical Elements
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
Apr 27, 2000 · 28 min
Human Origins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
Apr 6, 2000 · 28 min
The Natural Order
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
Feb 24, 2000 · 28 min
Grand Unified Theory
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
Feb 10, 2000 · 28 min
Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
Jan 13, 2000 · 27 min
Information Technology
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
Jan 6, 2000 · 27 min
Climate Change
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
Dec 30, 1999 · 28 min
Time
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time.
Dec 16, 1999 · 27 min
Medical Ethics
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
Nov 25, 1999 · 27 min
Consciousness
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
Sep 23, 1999 · 28 min
Genetic Determinism
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
Jul 22, 1999 · 28 min
Pain
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
Jul 1, 1999 · 28 min
Intelligence
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
Jun 17, 1999 · 28 min
The Great Disruption
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
May 27, 1999 · 28 min
Memory and Culture
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
May 20, 1999 · 28 min
The Universe's Origins
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.