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In Our Time is a discussion programme on the history of ideas; it has been hosted since 1998 by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

2014–2015

Next programme: Ashoka the Great

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
29 January, 2015	Thucydides	Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge Katherine Harloe, Associate Professor in Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading, Neville Morley, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol
22 January, 2015	Phenomenology	Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy in the European Institute at the London School of Economics Joanna Hodge, Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy and Tutor at New College at the University of Oxford
15 January, 2015	Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent	Louise Milne, Lecturer in Visual Culture in the School of Art at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University Jeanne Nuechterlein, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of York Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and Head of the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London
18 December 2014	Truth	Simon Blackburn,[1] Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities Jennifer Hornsby,[2] Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London Crispin Wright,[3] Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, and Professor of Philosophy at New York University
11 December 2014	Behavioural ecology	Steve Jones,[4] Emeritus Professor of Genetics, School of Life and Medical Sciences at University College London Rebecca Kilner,[5] Professor of Evolutionary biology at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge Lord Krebs,[6] Principal at Jesus College Oxford
4 December 2014	Zen	Tim Barrett,[7] Emeritus Professor at Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London Dr Lucia Dolce,[8] Numata Reader in Japanese Buddhism at SOAS, University of London Dr Eric Greene,[9] Lecturer in East Asian Religions at the University of Bristol
27 November 2014	Kafka's The Trial	Elizabeth Boa,[10] Emeritus Professor of German, University of Nottingham Steve Connor,[11] Professor of English, Peterhouse, Cambridge Ritchie Robertson,[12] Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, The Queen's College, Oxford
20 November 2014	Aesop	Pavlos Avlamis,[13] Faculty of Classics Research Lecturer, Trinity College, Oxford, Dr Lucy Grig,[14] Senior Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Edinburgh, Simon Goldhill,[15] Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge
13 November 2014	Brunel	Julia Elton,[16] Past President of the Newcomen Society, Dr Ben Marsden,[17] Senior Lecturer, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, Crosbie Smith,[18] Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Kent
06 November 2014	Hatshepsut	Elizabeth Frood,[19] Associate Professor of Egyptology; Fellow of St Cross College the University of Oxford, Kate Spence,[20] Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, Campbell Price, Curator of Department of Egypt & Syria, Manchester Museum (The University of Manchester)
30 October 2014	Nuclear Fusion	Philippa Browning,[21] Professor of Astrophysics, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Steve Cowley,[22] Professor in Plasma Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics Imperial College, London Justin Wark,[23] Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
23 October 2014	The Haitian Revolution	Kate Hodgson,[24] Doctor of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool Tim Lockley,[25] School of Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick Dr Karen Salt,[26] Research Fellow at School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
16 October 2014	Rudyard Kipling	Howard Booth,[27] Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester Professor Daniel Karlin,[28] Research Fellow in English, Winterstoke Professor of English, University of Bristol Jan Montefiore,[29] Professor of 20th Century English Literature, University of Kent
9 October 2014	The Battle of Talas	Hilde de Weerdt,[30] Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University, Michael Höckelmann,[31] British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at King's College London, Hugh Kennedy,[32] Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.
2 October 2014	Julius Caesar	Christopher Pelling,[33] Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, Catherine Steel,[34] Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, Maria Wyke,[35] Professor of Latin at University College London.
25 September 2014	. . . e	Colva Roney-Dougal,[36] Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, June Barrow-Green,[37] Senior Lecturer in the History of Maths at the Open University, Vicky Neale,[38] Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute and Balliol College, Oxford.

2013–2014

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
10 July 2014	The Sun	Carolin Crawford,[39] Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, Yvonne Elsworth,[40] Professor of Helioseismology, Poynting Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham. Louise Harra,[41] Professor of solar physics at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
3 July 2014	Mrs Dalloway	Dame Hermione Lee,[42] President of Wolfson College, Oxford Dr Jane Goldman,[43] Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow Dr Kathryn Simpson,[44] Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
26 June 2014	Hildegard of Bingen	Miri Rubin,[45] Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and Head of the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London, William Flynn,[46] Lecturer in Medieval Latin at the University of Leeds, Dr Almut Suerbaum,[47] Lecturer in German, Fellow of Somerville at the University of Oxford
19 June 2014	The Philosophy of Solitude	Melissa Lane,[48] Professor of Politics at Princeton University Simon Blackburn,[49] Fellow of University of Cambridge John Haldane,[50] Professor of Philosophy at University of St Andrews
12 June 2014	Robert Boyle	Simon Schaffer,[51] Professor the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Michael Hunter,[52] Professor at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London Anna Marie Roos,[53] Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Media Humanities and Performance at the University of Lincoln.
5 June 2014	The Bluestockings	Karen O'Brien,[54] Professor of English Literature at King's College London, Dr Elizabeth Eger,[55] Reader at King's College London Nicole Pohl,[56] Reader in Early Modern Literature and Critical Theory at Oxford Brookes University
29 May 2014	The Talmud	Philip Alexander,[57] Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature at the University of Manchester Norman Solomon,[58] Rabbi, Laliv Clenman,[59] Lecturer in Rabbinic Literature at Leo Baeck College.
22 May 2014	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Charles Melville,[60] Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge Daniel Karlin,[61] Winterstoke Professor of English at the University of Bristol Kirstie Blair,[62] Professor at the University of Stirling
15 May 2014	Photosynthesis	Sandra Knapp,[63] the Natural History Museum, London, Nick Lane,[64] at University College London, John F Allen,[65] Professor of Biochemistry at Queen Mary, University of London.
8 May 2014	Second Sino-Japanese War	Rana Mitter,[66] Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China; Fellow of St Cross College University of Oxford, Barak Kushner,[67] University of Cambridge, Tehyun Ma,[68] Lecturer in Chinese History at University of Exeter.
1 May 2014	The Tale of Sinuhe	Richard B. Parkinson,[69] Professor of Egyptology and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, Roland Enmarch,[70] Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, Aidan Dodson,[71] Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.
24 April 2014	Tristram Shandy	Judith Hawley,[72] Royal Holloway, University of London, John Mullan,[73] University College London, Mary Newbould,[74] University of Cambridge.
17 April 2014	The Domesday Book	Stephen Baxter,[75] Reader in Medieval History at King's College London, Elisabeth van Houts,[76] Honorary Professor of Medieval European History at the University of Cambridge, David Bates,[77] Professorial Fellow in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.
10 April 2014	Strabo's Geographica	Paul Cartledge,[78] A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, Maria Pretzler,[79] Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Swansea University, Benet Salway,[80] Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at University College London,
3 April 2014	States of Matter	Andrea Sella,[81] Professor of Materials and Inorganic Chemistry at University College London, Athene Donald,[82] Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, Justin Wark,[83] Professor of Physics and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford
27 March 2014	Weber's The Protestant Ethic	Peter Ghosh,[84] Fellow in History at St Anne's College, Oxford Sam Whimster,[85] Honorary Professor in Sociology at the University of New South Wales Linda Woodhead,[86] Professor of Sociology of Religion at Lancaster University.
20 March 2014	Bishop Berkeley	Peter Millican,[87] Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford, Tom Stoneham,[88] Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, Michela Massimi,[89] Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh.
13 March 2014	The Trinity	Janet Soskice, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, The Reverend Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church.
6 March 2014	Spartacus	Mary Beard,[90] Professor of Classics Newnham College, Cambridge Maria Wyke,[91] Professor of Latin, co-director of the Centre for Research into the Dynamics of Civilisation, University College London Theresa Urbainczyk,[92] Associate Professor of Classics (Scoil na gClasaicí UCD), University College Dublin
27 February 2014	The Eye	Dr Patricia Fara,[93] Senior Tutor and Director of Studies Clare College, Cambridge William Ayliffe,[94] FRCS PhD, Consultant Ophthalmologist at Lister Hospital, London, Professor at Gresham College Robert Iliffe[95], Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science, University of Sussex.
20 February 2014	Social Darwinism	Adam Kuper,[96] Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the LSE, University of London Gregory Radick,[97] Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, Charlotte Sleigh,[98] Reader in the History of Science at the University of Kent
13 February 2014	Chivalry	Miri Rubin,[99] Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London, Matthew Strickland,[100] Professor at School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan, University of Glasgow, Dr Laura Ashe,[101] University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow Worcester College, University of Oxford
6 February 2014	The Phoenicians	Mark Woolmer,[102] at Durham University Josephine Quinn,[103] Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Worcester College, Oxford, Cyprian Broodbank,[104] at University College London.
30 January 2014	Catastrophism	Andrew Scott,[105] Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, Jan Zalasiewicz,[106] Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Leicester, Leucha Veneer,[107] Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester
23 January 2014	Sources of Early Chinese History	Roel Sterckx,[108] Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at the University of Cambridge, Tim Barrett (academic),[109] Professor of East Asian History at SOAS, University of London, Hilde de Weerdt,[110] Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University,
16 January 2014	The Battle of Tours	Hugh N. Kennedy,[111] Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, Rosamond McKitterick,[112] Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, Matthew Innes,[113] Vice Master and Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London
3 January 2014	Plato's Symposium	Angie Hobbs,[114] Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, Richard L. Hunter,[115] Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, Frisbee Sheffield,[116] Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College, Cambridge.
26 December 2013	The Medici	Evelyn Welch,[117] Professor of Renaissance Studies at King's College London, Robert Black,[118] Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds, Catherine Fletcher,[119] Lecturer in Public History at the University of Sheffield.
19 December 2013	Complexity	Ian Stewart,[120] Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, Jeff Johnson,[121] Professor of Complexity Science and Design at the Open University, Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly,[122] Director of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics.
12 December 2013	Pliny the Younger	Catharine Edwards,[123] Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London, Roy Gibson,[124] Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, Alice König,[125] Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews.
5 December 2013	Hindu Ideas of Creation	Jessica Frazier,[126] Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,[127] Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University. Gavin Flood,[128] Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford.
28 November 2013	The Microscope	Jim Bennett, Visiting Keeper at the Science Museum, London, Sir Colin Humphreys,[129] Professor of Materials Science and Director of Research at the University of Cambridge, Michelle Peckham,[130] Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Leeds.
21 November 2013	Pocahontas	Susan Castillo,[131] Harriet Beecher Stowe Emeritus Professor of American Studies at King's College London Tim Lockley,[132] Reader in American Studies at the University of Warwick, Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Reader in American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia.
14 November 2013	The Tempest	Jonathan Bate, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, Erin Sullivan, Lecturer and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
7 November 2013	Ordinary Language Philosophy	Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy at New College, Oxford, Ray Monk, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, Julia Tanney, Reader in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Kent.
31 October 2013	The Berlin Conference	Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, Richard Rathbone, Emeritus Professor of African History at SOAS, University of London, Joanna Lewis, Assistant Professor of Imperial History at the London School of Economics, University of London.
24 October 2013	The Corn laws	Lawrence Goldman, Fellow in Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford, Boyd Hilton, Former Professor of Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics.
17 October 2013	The Book of Common Prayer	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford, Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture.
10 October 2013	Galen	Vivian Nutton, Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, Helen King, Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, Dr Caroline Petit, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Warwick.
3rd Oct 2013	Exoplanets	Carolin Crawford, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and a member of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, Don Pollacco, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Warwick, Suzanne Aigrain, Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
26th Sept 2013	The Mamluks	Amira Bennison, Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Robert Irwin, Former Senior Research Associate in the Department of History at SOAS, University of London, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London.
19th Sept 2013	Blaise Pascal	David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, Michael Moriarty, Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge, Michela Massimi, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh.

2012–2013

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
4 July 2013	The Invention of Radio	Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge, Elizabeth Bruton, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds, John Liffen, Curator of Communications at the Science Museum, London.
27 June 2013	Romance of the Three Kingdoms	Frances Wood, Former Lead Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library, Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford, Margaret Hillenbrand, University Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College.
20 June 2013	The Physiocrats	Richard Whatmore, Professor of Intellectual History & the History of Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Joel Felix, Professor of History at the University of Reading, Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton.
13 June 2013	Prophecy	Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Justin Meggitt, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion and the Origins of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, Jonathan Stökl, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Leiden University.
6 June 2013	Relativity	Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Durham University, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
30 May 2013	Queen Zenobia	Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King's College London, Kate Cooper, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester, Richard Stoneman, Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.
23 May 2013	Lévi-Strauss	Adam Kuper, Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, Christina Howells, Professor of French at Oxford University, Vincent Debaene, Associate Professor of French Literature at Columbia University.
16 May 2013	Cosmic Rays	Carolin Crawford, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and a member of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, Alan Watson, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Leeds, Tim Greenshaw, Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool.
9 May 2013	Icelandic Sagas	Carolyne Larrington, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford, Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the University of Cambridge, Emily Lethbridge, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík.
2 May 2013	Gnosticism	Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, Caroline Humfress, Reader in History at Birkbeck College, University of London, Alastair Logan, Honorary University Fellow of the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.
25 April 2013	Montaigne	David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at York University, Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, Felicity Green, Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh.
18 April 2013	Putney Debates	Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London, Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, Kate Peters, Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
11 April 2013	Amazons	Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, Chiara Franceschini, Teaching Fellow at University College London and an Academic Assistant at the Warburg Institute, Caroline Vout, University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Christ's College, Cambridge.
4 April 2013	Japan's Sakoku Period	Richard Bowring, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge, Andrew Cobbing, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, Rebekah Clements, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London.
28 March 2013	Water	Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Andrea Sella, Professor of Chemistry at University College London, Patricia Hunt, Research Fellow of Queens' College and Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.
21 March 2013	Alfred Russel Wallace	Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London, George Beccaloni, Curator of Cockroaches and Related Insects and Director of the Wallace Correspondence Project at the Natural History Museum, Ted Benton, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.
14 March 2013	Chekhov	Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, Cynthia Marsh, Emeritus Professor of Russian Drama and Literature at the University of Nottingham, Rosamund Bartlett, Founding Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation and former Reader in Russian at the University of Durham.
7 March 2013	Absolute Zero	Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge, Stephen Blundell, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, Nicola Wilkin, Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Birmingham.
28 February 2013	Pitt Rivers	Adam Kuper, Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, Richard Bradley, Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading, Dan Hicks, University Lecturer & Curator of Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.
21 February 2013	Decline and Fall	David Bradshaw, Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford, John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, Ann Pasternak Slater, Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.
14 February 2013	Ice Ages	Jane Francis, Professor of Paleoclimatology at the University of Leeds, Richard Corfield, Research Fellow in Geology at the University of Oxford, Carrie Lear, Senior Lecturer in Palaeoceanography at Cardiff University.
7 February 2013	Epicureanism	Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, James Warren, Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
31 January 2013	The War of 1812	Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London, Lawrence Goldman, Fellow in Modern History at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh.
24 January 2013	Romulus and Remus	Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, Peter Wiseman, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, Tim Cornell, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester.
17 January 2013	Comets	Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University, Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, Don Pollacco, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Warwick.
10 January 2013	Le Morte d'Arthur	Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature and Head of Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, Laura Ashe, CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College at the University of Oxford.
27 December 2012	The Cult of Mithras	Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS, University of London, John North, Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.
20 December 2012	The South Sea Bubble	Anne Murphy, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire, Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton, Roey Sweet, Head of the School of History at the University of Leicester.
13 December 2012	Shahnameh of Ferdowsi	Narguess Farzad, Senior Fellow in Persian at SOAS, University of London, Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Middle Eastern Coins at the British Museum.
6 December 2012	Bertrand Russell	AC Grayling, Master of the New College of the Humanities and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, Mike Beaney, Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, Hilary Greaves, Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
29 November 2012	Crystallography	Judith Howard, Director of the Biophysical Sciences Institute and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Durham, Chris Hammond, Life Fellow in Material Science at the University of Leeds, Mike Glazer, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Warwick.
22 November 2012	The Borgias	Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, Catherine Fletcher, Lecturer in Public History at the University of Sheffield, Christine Shaw, Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.
15 November 2012	Simone Weil	Beatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, Stephen Plant, Runcie Fellow and Dean of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, David Levy, Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
8 November 2012	The Upanishads	Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University, Simon Brodbeck, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Cardiff.
01 November 2012	The Anarchy	John Gillingham, Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Louise Wilkinson, Reader in Medieval History at Canterbury Christ Church University, David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.
25 October 2012	Fermat's Last Theorem	Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics & Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Vicky Neale, Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge, Samir Siksek, Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick
18 October 2012	Caxton and the Printing Press	Richard Gameson, Professor of the History of the Book at the University of Durham, Julia Boffey, Professor of Medieval Studies in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London, David Rundle, Member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford
11 October 2012	Hannibal	Ellen O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol, Mark Woolmer, Senior Tutor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham, Louis Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University
4 October 2012	Gerald of Wales	Henrietta Leyser, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, Michelle Brown, Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Huw Pryce, Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University
27 September 2012	The Ontological Argument	John Haldane Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, Clare Carlisle, Lecturer in Philosophy of religion at King's College London,
20 September 2012	The Druids	Barry Cunliffe, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University, Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London
13 September 2012	The Cell	Steve Jones Professor of Genetics at University College London, Cathie Martin, MBE, Group Leader at the John Innes Centre and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Nick Lane, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London

2011–2012

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
12 July 2012	Hadrian's Wall	Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews David Breeze, Former Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland and Visiting Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham Lindsay Allason-Jones, Former Reader in Roman Material Culture at the University of Newcastle
5 July 2012	Scepticism	Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford, Melissa Lane, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London.
28 June 2012	Al-Kindi	Hugh Kennedy, Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, James Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic Elect at the University of Cambridge, Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
21 June 2012	Annie Besant	Lawrence Goldman, Fellow in Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford, David Stack, Reader in History at the University of Reading, Yasmin Khan, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.
14 June 2012	James Joyce's Ulysses	Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, University of London, Jeri Johnson, Senior Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford, Richard Brown, Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Leeds.
7 June 2012	King Solomon	Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, Philip Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, Katharine Dell, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
31 May 2012	The Trojan War	Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King's College London, Ellen Adams, Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London, Susan Sherratt, Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.
24 May 2012	Marco Polo	Frances Wood, Lead Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library, Joan Pau Rubies, Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Debra Higgs Strickland, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow.
17 May 2012	Clausewitz and On War	Saul David, Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham, Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, Beatrice Heuser, Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading.
10 May 2012	Game Theory	Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, Andrew Colman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester, Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
3 May 2012	Voltaire's Candide	David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, Nicholas Cronk, Professor of French Literature and Director of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford, Caroline Warman, Lecturer in French and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.
26 April 2012	Battle of Bosworth Field	Anne Curry, Professor of Medieval History and Dean of Humanities at the University of Southampton, Steven Gunn, Tutor and Fellow in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford, David Grummitt, Lecturer in British History at the University of Kent.
19 April 2012	Neoplatonism	Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London, Anne Sheppard, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London.
12 April 2012	Early Geology	Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at Lancaster University, Andrew Scott, Professor of Applied Palaeobotany at Royal Holloway, University of London, Leucha Veneer, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester.
5 April 2012	George Fox and the Quakers	Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London, John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, Kate Peters, Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge.
29 March 2012	The Measurement of Time	Kristen Lippincott, Former Director of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford, Jonathan Betts, Senior Curator of Horology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
22 March 2012	Moses Mendelssohn	Christopher Clark, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, Abigail Green, Tutor and Fellow in History at the University of Oxford, Adam Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in European History at King's College, London.
15 March 2012	Vitruvius and De Architectura	Serafina Cuomo, Reader in Roman History at Birkbeck, University of London, Robert Tavernor, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the London School of Economics, Alice Koenig, Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews.
8 March 2012	Lyrical Ballads	Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, Jonathan Bate, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, Peter Swaab, Reader in English Literature at University College London.
1 March 2012	Benjamin Franklin	Simon Middleton, Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Sheffield, Simon Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow, Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor at Clare College, Cambridge.
23 February 2012	Conductors and Semiconductors	Frank Close, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, Lesley Cohen, Professor of Solid State Physics at Imperial College London
16 February 2012	The An Lushan Rebellion	Frances Wood, Lead Curator of Chinese at the British Library, Naomi Standen, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham, Hilde de Weerdt, Fellow and Lecturer in Chinese History at Pembroke College, Oxford.
9 February 2012	Erasmus	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford, Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, Jill Kraye, Professor of the History of Renaissance Philosophy and Librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London
2 February 2012	The Kama Sutra	Julius Lipner, Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge, Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, David Smith, Reader in South Asian Religions at the University of Lancaster
26 January 2012	The Scientific method	Simon Schaffer, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge, John Worrall, Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Michela Massimi, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at University College London.
19 January 2012	1848: Year of Revolution	Tim Blanning, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, Lucy Riall, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, Mike Rapport, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling.
12 January 2012	The Safavid Dynasty	Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter, Emma Loosley, Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester, Andrew Newman, Reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.
2–6 January 2012	The Written Word	Documentary series Programme 1: The Technology and Early Development of Writing Programme 2: The Evolution of Writing and the Invention of the Book Programme 3: Writing and Religion Programme 4: Literature Programme 5: The Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment
29 December 2011	Macromolecules	Tony Ryan, Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield, Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Charlotte Williams, Reader in Polymer Chemistry and Catalysis at Imperial College, London.
22 December 2011	Robinson Crusoe	Karen O'Brien, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education at the University of Birmingham, Judith Hawley, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, Bob Owens, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Open University.
15 December 2011	The Concordat of Worms	Henrietta Leyser, Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, Kate Cushing, Reader in Medieval History at Keele University, John Gillingham, Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
8 December 2011	Heraclitus	Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London, James Warren, Senior Lecturer in Classics and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1 December 2011	Christina Rossetti	Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at Liverpool University, Rhian Williams, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Nicholas Shrimpton, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
24 November 2011	Judas Maccabeus	Helen Bond, Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at Edinburgh University, Tessa Rajak, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading, Philip Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester.
17 November 2011	Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy	Liba Taub, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford, Charles Burnett, Professor of the History of Islamic Influences on Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London
10 November 2011	The Continental-Analytic Split	Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy at New College, Oxford, Beatrice Han-Pile, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, Hans Johann-Glock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich.
3 November 2011	The Moon	Paul Murdin, Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Liverpool John Moores University, Carolin Crawford, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College and Fellow and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Ian Crawford, Reader in Planetary Science and Astrobiology at Birkbeck College, London.
27 October 2011	The Siege of Tenochtitlan	Alan Knight, Professor of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford, Elizabeth Graham, Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College, London, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield.
20 October 2011	Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People	Tim Blanning, Former Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at University College London, Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer on the history of art at Reading University.
13 October 2011	The Ming Voyages	Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, Julia Lovell, Lecturer in Chinese History at Birkbeck College, University of London, Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford.
6 October 2011	David Hume	Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, Helen Beebee, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, James Harris, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
29 September 2011	The Etruscan Civilisation	Phil Perkins, Professor of Archaeology at the Open University, David Ridgway, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London, Corinna Riva, Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London.
22 September 2011	Shinto	Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, Richard Bowring, Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge, Lucia Dolce, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion and Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
15 September 2011	The Hippocratic Oath	Vivian Nutton, Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, Helen King, Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, Peter Pormann, Wellcome Trust Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick

2010–2011

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
7 July 2011	The Minoan Civilisation	John Bennet,[133] Professor of Aegean Archaeology at Sheffield University, Ellen Adams,[134] Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London, Yannis Hamilakis,[135] Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
30 June 2011	Tennyson's "In Memoriam"	Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Liverpool University, Seamus Perry, Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford, Jane Wright, Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol
23 June 2011	Malthusianism	Karen O'Brien,[136] Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Birmingham, Mark Philp,[137] Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, Emma Griffin,[138] Senior Lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia
16 June 2011	John Wycliff and the Lollards	Sir Anthony Kenny, Philosopher and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford Anne Hudson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford, Rob Lutton, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Nottingham
9 June 2011	The Origins of Infectious Disease	Steve Jones,[139] Professor of Genetics at University College London, Sir Roy Anderson,[140] Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, Mark Pallen,[141] Professor of Microbial Genomics at the University of Birmingham.
2 June 2011	Battle of Stamford Bridge	John Hines, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University, Elizabeth Rowe, Lecturer in Scandinavian History of the Viking Age at Clare Hall, Cambridge, Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History at King's College London
26 May 2011	Xenophon	Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill
19 May 2011	Custer's Last Stand	Kathleen Burk, Adam Smith, Saul David
12 May 2011	Anatomy of Melancholy	Julie Sanders, Mary Ann Lund, Erin Sullivan
5 May 2011	The Origins of Islamic Law	Hugh Kennedy, Robert Gleave, Mona Siddiqui
28 April 2011	Cogito ergo sum	Susan James, John Cottingham, Stephen Mulhall
21 April 2011	The Pelagian Controversy	Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, John Milbank
14 April 2011	The Neutrino	Frank Close, Susan Cartwright, David Wark
7 April 2011	Octavia Hill	Dinah Birch, Lawrence Goldman, Gillian Darley
31 March 2011	The Bhagavad Gita	Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University, Julius Lipner, Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion and Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Jessica Frazier, Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies at Regent's College, London
24 March 2011	The Dawn of the Iron Age	Sir Barry Cunliffe, Sue Hamilton, Timothy Champion
17 March 2011	The Medieval University	Miri Rubin, Ian Wei, Peter Denley
10 March 2011	Free Will (500th programme)	Simon Blackburn, Helen Beebee, Galen Strawson
3 March 2011	The Age of the Universe	Martin Rees, Carolin Crawford, Carlos Frenk
24 February 2011	The Taiping Rebellion	Rana Mitter, Frances Wood, Julia Lovell
17 February 2011	Maimonides	John Joseph Haldane, Sarah Stroumsa, Peter Adamson
10 February 2011	The Nervous System	Colin Blakemore, Vivian Nutton, Tilli Tansey
3 February 2011	The Battle of Bannockburn	Matthew Strickland, Fiona Watson, Michael Brown
27 January 2011	Aristotle's Poetics	Angie Hobbs, Nick Lowe, Stephen Halliwell
20 January 2011	The Mexican Revolution	Alan Knight, Paul Garner, Patience Schell
13 January 2011	Random and Pseudorandom	Marcus du Sautoy, Colva Roney-Dougal, Timothy Gowers
6 January 2011	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Jonathan Bate, Jane Stabler, Emily Bernhard Jackson
30 December 2010	Consequences of the Industrial Revolution	Jane Humphries, Emma Griffin, Lawrence Goldman
23 December 2010	The Industrial Revolution	Jeremy Black, Pat Hudson, William Ashworth
16 December 2010	Daoism	Tim Barrett, Martin Palmer, Hilde De Weerdt
9 December 2010	Thomas Edison	Simon Schaffer, Kathleen Burk, Iwan Morus
2 December 2010	Cleopatra	Catharine Edwards, Maria Wyke, Susan Walker
25 November 2010	The History of Metaphor	Steven Connor, Tom Healy, Julie Sanders
18 November 2010	Foxe's Book of Martyrs	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of Church history at the University of Oxford, Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London, Elizabeth Evenden[142], Lecturer in Book History at Brunel University,
11 November 2010	The Volga Vikings	James Montgomery, Professor of Classical Arabic at the University of Cambridge, Neil Price, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, Elizabeth Rowe[143], Lecturer in Scandinavian History of the Viking Age at Clare Hall, Cambridge,
4 November 2010	Women and Enlightenment Science	Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor at Clare College, University of Cambridge, Karen O'Brien[144], Professor of English at the University of Warwick, Judith Hawley[145], Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London,
28 October 2010	The Unicorn	Juliette Wood[146], Associate Lecturer in Folklore at Cardiff University, Lauren Kassell[147], Lecturer in the History and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge, David Ekserdjian[148], Professor of the History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester,
21 October 2010	History of Logic	A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle Fellow in Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford, Rosanna Keefe[149], Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
14 October 2010	Sturm und Drang	T. C. W. Blanning, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge University, Susanne Kord[150], Professor of German at University College, London, Maike Oergel[151], Associate Professor of German at the University of Nottingham.
7 October 2010	The Spanish Armada	Diane Purkiss, Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford, Maria-Jose Rodriguez-Salgado[152], Professor in International History at the London School of Economics, Nicholas Rodger, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
30 September 2010	The Delphic Oracle	Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, Edith Hall, Professor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, Nick Lowe, Reader in Classical Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
23 September 2010	Imaginary numbers	Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, Caroline Series[153], Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.

2009–2010

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
8 July 2010	Pliny's Natural History (Pliny)	Serafina Cuomo, Aude Doody, Liba Taub
1 July 2010	Athelstan	Sarah Foot, John Hines, Richard Gameson
24 June 2010	Antarctica	Jane Francis, Julian Dowdeswell, David Walton
17 June 2010	The Neanderthals	Simon Conway Morris, Chris Stringer, Danielle Schreve
10 June 2010	Al-Biruni	James Montgomery, Hugh Kennedy, Amira Bennison
3 June 2010	Edmund Burke	Karen O'Brien, Richard Bourke, John Keane
27 May 2010	Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists	Evelyn Welch, David Ekserdjian, Martin Kemp
20 May 2010	The Cavendish Family	Jim Bennett, Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer
13 May 2010	The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James	Jonathan Rée, John Haldane, Gwen Griffith-Dickson
6 May 2010	The Cool Universe	Carolin Crawford, Paul Murdin, Michael Rowan-Robinson
29 April 2010	The Great Wall of China	Julia Lovell, Rana Mitter, Frances Wood
22 April 2010	Roman Satire	Mary Beard, Denis Feeney, Duncan Kennedy
15 April 2010	The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation	Saul David, Saul Dubow, Shula Marks
8 April 2010	William Hazlitt	Jonathan Bate, A. C. Grayling, Uttara Natarajan
1 April 2010	The History of the City (2 of 2)	Peter Hall, Tristram Hunt, Ricky Burdett
25 March 2010	The History of the City (1 of 2)	Peter Hall, Julia Merritt , Greg Woolfis
18 March 2010	The Scream and Edvard Munch	David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe, Alastair Wright
11 March 2010	Boudica	Juliette Wood, Richard Hingley, Miranda Aldhouse-Green
4 March 2010	The Infant Brain	Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Denis Mareschal
25 February 2010	Calvinism	Justin Champion, Susan Hardman Moore, Diarmaid MacCulloch
18 February 2010	The Indian Rebellion	Chandrika Kaul, Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila
11 February 2010	The Unintended Consequences of Mathematics	John D. Barrow, Colva Roney-Dougal, Marcus du Sautoy
4 February 2010	Ibn Khaldun	Robert Hoyland, Robert Graham Irwin, Hugh N. Kennedy
28 January 2010	Silas Marner – George Eliot's 1861 novel	Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch, Valentine Cunningham
21 January 2010	The Glencoe Massacre – "Murder Under Trust"	Murray Pittock, Karin Bowie, Daniel Szechi
14 January 2010	The Frankfurt School – why no Revolution?	Jonathan Rée, Esther Leslie, Raymond Geuss
4–7 January 2010	The History of the Royal Society	Four daily programmes in documentary format
31 December 2009	Mary Wollstonecraft – the Vindicator of the Rights of Woman	Karen O’Brien, John Mullan, Barbara Taylor
24 December 2009	The Samurai – from civil warriors to civil servants	Angus Lockyer, Nicola Liscutin, Gregory Irvine
10 December 2009	Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans – maths and mysticism	Ian Stewart, Serafina Cuomo, John O’Connor
3 December 2009	The Silk Road – from Dunhuang to Samarkand	Frances Wood, Tim Barrett, Naomi Standen
26 November 2009	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce's early masterpiece	Roy Foster, Katherine Mullin, Jeri Johnson
19 November 2009	Sparta – the anti-Athens	Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, Angie Hobbs
12 November 2009	The Discovery of Radiation – from radio waves to gamma rays	Jim Al-Khalili, Frank Close, Frank James
5 November 2009	The Siege of Münster – Apocalypse 1535	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen, Lucy Wooding
29 October 2009	Schopenhauer – the tyranny of the Will	A. C. Grayling, Christopher Janaway, Béatrice Han-Pile
22 October 2009	The Geological Formation of Britain – our long journey north	Richard Corfield, Jane Francis, Sanjeev Gupta
15 October 2009	The Death of Elizabeth I – plots, plague and politics	John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett
8 October 2009	The Dreyfuss Affair – the scandal that tore France apart	Robert Gildea, Robert Tombs, Ruth Harris
1 October 2009	Akhenaten – history's first individual	Richard Parkinson, Elizabeth Frood, Kate Spence
24 September 2009	Leibniz vs Newton – who first calculated the calculus?	Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara, Jackie Stedall
17 September 2009	St Thomas Aquinas – his profound influence on Western faith and philosophy	Martin Palmer, John Haldane, Annabel Brett

2008–2009

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
9 July 2009	Ediacara Biota – the first animal?	Richard Corfield, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Open University, Martin Brasier, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Oxford, Rachel Wood, Lecturer in Carbonate Geoscience at the University of Edinburgh
2 July 2009	Logical Positivism – or is it?	Barry Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Thomas Uebel
25 June 2009	The Sunni-Shia Split: after Muhammad	Amira Bennison, Robert Gleave, Hugh N. Kennedy
18 June 2009	Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy – theatre of blood	Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare
11 June 2009	The Augustan Age – art and propaganda at the birth of the Roman Empire	Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, Duncan Kennedy
4 June 2009	The Trial of Charles I – the original courtroom drama	Justin Champion, Diane Purkiss, David Wootton
28 May 2009	Saint Paul – the first Christian	John Haldane, John Barclay, Helen Bond
21 May 2009	The Whale: A History	Steve Jones, Eleanor Weston, Bill Amos
14 May 2009	The Siege of Vienna – a clash of civilisations?	Jeremy Black, Andrew Wheatcroft, Claire Norton
7 May 2009	Magna Carta – foundation of law or rich man's charter?	Nicholas Vincent, David Carpenter, Michael Clanchy
30 April 2009	The Vacuum of Space – a programme about nothing?	Frank Close, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Ruth Gregory
23 April 2009	The Building of St Petersburg – "a window through which Russia looks on Europe"	Simon Dixon, Janet Hartley, Anthony Cross
16 April 2009	Suffragism – the long march towards votes for women	Krista Cowman, June Purvis, Julia Bush
9 April 2009	Brave New World – would Soma, free love and the feelies be so bad?	David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick, Michèle Barrett
2 April 2009	Baconian Science – Francis Bacon and the birth of modern science	Stephen Pumfrey, Patricia Fara, Rhodri Lewis
26 March 2009	The School of Athens – picturing Greece in Renaissance minds	Angie Hobbs, Valery Rees, Jill Kraye
19 March 2009	The Boxer Rebellion – "Kill all Foreigners!"	Frances Wood, Rana Mitter, Gary Tiedemann
12 March 2009	The Library of Alexandria – of all the books in all the world...	Simon Goldhill, Matthew Nicholls, Serafina Cuomo
5 March 2009	The Measurement Problem in Physics – Man is not the measure of all things	Basil Hiley, Simon Saunders, Sir Roger Penrose
26 February 2009	The Waste Land and Modernity – "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"	Steve Connor, Fran Brearton, Lawrence Rainey
19 February 2009	The Observatory at Jaipur – Indian astronomy on the cusp of colonialism	Chandrika Kaul, David Arnold, Chris Minkowski
12 February 2009	The Destruction of Carthage – "Delenda Carthago!"	Mary Beard, Jo Quinn, Ellen O’Gorman
5 February 2009	The Brothers Grimm: fairy tales, Grimm – but not as we know them	Juliette Wood, Marina Warner, Tony Phelan
29 January 2009	A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift – 18th century satire gets close to the bone	John Mullan, Judith Hawley, Ian McBride
22 January 2009	A History of History – how the writing of history has evolved	Paul Cartledge, John Burrow, Miri Rubin
15 January 2009	Thoreau and the American Idyll – America in the Wilderness	Kathleen Burk, Tim Morris, Stephen Fender
5–8 January 2009	Darwin	Series of daily documentaries Programme 1: On the Origins of Charles Darwin Programme 2: The Beagle, the Mockingbird and the Megatherium Programme 3: On the Origin of Species Programme 4: Life After the Origin
1 January 2009	The Consolation of Philosophy – a new year's message from Boethius	A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane, Roger Scruton
18 December 2008	The Physics of Time – does time even exist?	Jim Al-Khalili, Monica Grady, Ian Stewart
11 December 2008	The Great Fire of London – London's burning, fetch the engines...	Lisa Jardine, Vanessa Harding, Jonathan Sawday
4 December 2008	Heat: A History -from fire to thermodynamics	Simon Schaffer, Hasok Chang, Joanna Haigh
27 November 2008	The Great Reform Act: reform – but was it great?	Dinah Birch, Michael Bentley, Catherine Hall
20 November 2008	The Baroque – - the misshapen pearl of Europe	T. C. W. Blanning, Nigel Aston, Helen Hills
13 November 2008	Neuroscience – does the brain rule the mind?	Martin Conway, Gemma Calvert, David Papineau
6 November 2008	Aristotle's Politics – a perfect society?	Angie Hobbs, Paul Cartledge, Annabel Brett
30 October 2008	Simon Bolivar – the liberator of Spanish America	Anthony McFarlane, John Fisher, Catherine Davies
23 October 2008	Dante's Inferno – to Hell and back	Margaret Kean, John Took, Claire Honess
16 October 2008	Vitalism – the spark of life	Patricia Fara, Andrew Mendelsohn, Pietro Corsi
9 October 2008	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems – the dirty secret of maths	Marcus du Sautoy, John D. Barrow, Philip Welch
2 October 2008	The Translation Movement – movement in Baghdad which translated Aristotle and Greek classics into Arabic	Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison, Peter Pormann
25 September 2008	Miracles – will they never cease?	Martin Palmer, Janet Soskice, Justin Champion

2007–2008

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
10 July 2008	Tacitus – The Decadence of Rome	Catharine Edwards, Ellen O’Gorman, Maria Wyke
3 July 2008	The Metaphysical Poets – sex and death in the 17th century	Thomas Healy, Julie Sanders, Tom Cain
26 June 2008	The Arab Conquests – the 7th century new world order	Hugh N. Kennedy, Amira Bennison, Robert Hoyland
19 June 2008	The Music of the Spheres – a dose of heavenly harmonies	Peter Forshaw, Jim Bennett, Angela Voss
12 June 2008	The Riddle of the Sands – how Britain learned to fear the Germans	Richard J. Evans, Rosemary Ashton, T. C. W. Blanning
5 June 2008	Trofim Lysenko – Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist	Robert Service, Steve Jones, Catherine Merridale
29 May 2008	Probability – heads or tails?	Marcus du Sautoy, Colva Roney-Dougal, Ian Stewart
22 May 2008	The Black Death – a plague on all our houses	Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski
15 May 2008	The Library at Nineveh –	Eleanor Robson, Karen Radner, Andrew R. George
8 May 2008	The Brain: A History – history of ideas about the human brain	Vivian Nutton, Jonathan Sawday, Marina Wallace
1 May 2008	The Enclosures – dividing the country	Rosemary Sweet, Murray Pittock, Mark Overton
24 April 2008	Materialism – are we living in a material world?	A. C. Grayling, Caroline Warman, Anthony O'Hear
17 April 2008	Yeats and Irish Politics – "a terrible beauty is born"	Roy Foster, Fran Brearton, Warwick Gould
10 April 2008	The Norman Yoke – 1067 and all that	Sarah Foot, Richard Gameson, Matthew Strickland
3 April 2008	Newton's Laws of Motion – they put a man on the Moon	Simon Schaffer, Raymond Flood, Rob Iliffe
27 March 2008	The Dissolution of the Monasteries – religion in ruins	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard
20 March 2008	Søren Kierkegaard – fear and trembling in Copenhagen	Jonathan Rée, Clare Carlisle, John Lippitt
13 March 2008	The Greek Myths – soap opera of the gods	Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton, Mary Beard
6 March 2008	Ada Lovelace – prophet of the computer age	Patricia Fara, Doron Swade, John Fuegi
28 February 2008	King Lear – Shakespeare's finest fairy tale	Jonathan Bate, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Catherine Belsey
21 February 2008	The Multiverse – the universe is not enough	Sir Martin Rees, Fay Dowker, Bernard Carr
14 February 2008	The Statue of Liberty – From France with love...	Robert Gildea, Kathleen Burk, John Keane
7 February 2008	The Social Contract – Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the Origins of Society	Melissa Lane, Susan James, Karen O’Brien
31 January 2008	The Court of Rudolf II – the lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas	Peter Forshaw, Howard Hotson, Adam Mosley
24 January 2008	Plate Tectonics – the day the Earth moved	Richard Corfield, Joe Cann, Lynne Frostick
17 January 2008	The Fisher King – the wound that does not heal	Carolyne Larrington, Stephen Knight, Juliette Wood
10 January 2008	The Charge of the Light Brigade – "All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred"	Mike Broers, Trudi Tate, Saul David
3 January 2008	Albert Camus – Rebel with a Cause	Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker, Christina Howells
27 December 2007	The Nicene Creed – when Christ became God	Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, Andrew Louth
20 December 2007	The Four Humours – yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm in the original theory of everything	David Wootton, Vivian Nutton, Noga Arikha
13 December 2007	The Sassanian Empire – - in the shadow of Ancient Persia	Hugh N. Kennedy, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, James Howard-Johnston
6 December 2007	Genetic Mutation – the error-strewn secrets of life	Steve Jones, Adrian Woolfson, Linda Partridge
29 November 2007	The Fibonacci Sequence – - the numbers in nature	Marcus du Sautoy, Jackie Stedall, , Ron Knott
22 November 2007	The Prelude – the greatest poem in the English language?	Rosemary Ashton, Stephen Gill, Emma Mason
15 November 2007	The Discovery of Oxygen – feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry	Simon Schaffer, Jenny Uglow, Hasok Chang
8 November 2007	Avicenna – wine, women and philosophy	Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison, Nader El-Bizri
1 November 2007	Guilt – what is it good for?	Stephen Mulhall, Miranda Fricker, Oliver Davies
25 October 2007	Taste – the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century	Amanda Vickery, John Mullan, Jeremy Black
18 October 2007	The Arabian Nights – The art of story-telling	Robert Graham Irwin, Marina Warner, Gerard van Gelder
11 October 2007	Divine Right of Kings – "there's such divinity doth hedge a king"	Justin Champion, Thomas Healy, Clare Jackson
4 October 2007	Antimatter – where has it all gone?	Val Gibson, Frank Close, Ruth Gregory
27 September 2007	Socrates – the man and the myth	Angie Hobbs, David Sedley, Paul Millett

2006–2007

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
12 July 2007	Madame Bovary – the literary sensation caused by Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary	Andy Martin, Mary Orr, Robert Gildea
5 July 2007	The Pilgrim Fathers – the original American dream	Kathleen Burk, Harry Bennett, Tim Lockley
28 June 2007	Permian-Triassic Boundary – when 95% of life was killed off	Richard Corfield, Mike Benton, Jane Francis
21 June 2007	Common Sense Philosophy – "there is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"	A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane, Alexander Broadie
14 June 2007	Renaissance Astrology – "we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them"	Peter Forshaw, Lauren Kassell, Jonathan Sawday
7 June 2007	Siegfried Sassoon – the poet who survived	Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton, Max Egremont
31 May 2007	Occam's Razor – cutting medieval philosophy down to size	Sir Anthony Kenny, Marilyn McCord Adams, Richard Alan Cross
24 May 2007	The Siege of Orleans – did Joan of Arc really rescue France?	Anne Curry, Malcolm Vale, Matthew Bennett
17 May 2007	Gravitational Waves – a new window on the universe	Jim Al-Khalili, Carolin Crawford, Sheila Rowan
10 May 2007	Victorian Pessimism – fear and loathing in the late 19th century	Dinah Birch, Rosemary Ashton, Peter Mandler
3 May 2007	Spinoza – believed that God and Nature were the same thing	Jonathan Rée, Sarah Hutton, John Cottingham
26 April 2007	Greek and Roman Love Poetry – the pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus	Nick Lowe, Edith Hall, Maria Wyke
19 April 2007	Symmetry – the pattern at the heart of our physical world	Fay Dowker, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart
12 April 2007	The Opium Wars – a conflict that was to affect British-Chinese relations for generations	Yangwen Zheng, Lars Laamann, Xun Zhou
5 April 2007	St Hilda – the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby	John Blair, Rosemary Cramp, Sarah Foot
29 March 2007	Anaesthetics – from ether frolics to pain free surgery	David Wilkinson, Stephanie Snow, Anne Hardy
22 March 2007	Bismarck – The Iron Chancellor	Richard J. Evans, Christopher Clark, Katharine Lerman
15 March 2007	Epistolary Literature – great novels of fictional letters	John Mullan, Karen O'Brien, Brean Hammond
8 March 2007	Microbiology – the story of the invisible masters of the universe	John Dupré, Anne Glover, Andrew Mendelsohn
1 March 2007	The History of Optics – from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world	Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett, Emily Winterburn
22 February 2007	William Wilberforce – the man and his legacy	This broadcast was a documentary rather than a discussion
15 February 2007	Heart of Darkness – one of the most influential novels of the 20th century	Susan Jones, Robert Hampson, Laurence Davies
8 February 2007	Karl Popper – his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science	John Worrall, Anthony O'Hear, Nancy Cartwright
1 February 2007	Genghis Khan – founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires	Peter Jackson, Naomi Standen, George Lane
25 January 2007	Archimedes – the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments	Jackie Stedall, Serafina Cuomo, George Phillips
18 January 2007	The Jesuits – the school masters of Europe	Nigel Aston, Simon Ditchfield, Dame Olwen Hufton
11 January 2007	Mars – the search for life on the Red Planet	John Zarnecki, Colin Pillinger, Monica Grady
4 January 2007	Borges – the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer	Edwin Williamson, Efraín Kristal, Evelyn Fishburn
28 December 2006	The Siege of Constantinople – the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire	Roger Crowley, Judith Herrin, Colin Imber
21 December 2006	Hell – its representation through the ages	Martin Palmer, Margaret Kean, Neil MacGregor
14 December 2006	Indian Maths – laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number	George Gheverghese Joseph, Colva Roney-Dougal, Dennis Almeida
7 December 2006	Anarchism – a question of authority?	John Keane, Ruth Kinna, Peter Marshall
30 November 2006	The Speed of Light – a cosmic speed limit?	John D. Barrow, Iwan Morus, Jocelyn Bell Burnell
23 November 2006	Altruism – how can evolutionary biology explain it?	Miranda Fricker, Richard Dawkins, John Dupré
16 November 2006	The Peasants' Revolt – a lasting legacy for popular uprising?	Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron, Alastair Dunn
9 November 2006	Alexander Pope – "short is my date, but deathless my renown"	John Mullan, Jim McLaverty, Valerie Rumbold
2 November 2006	The Poincaré conjecture – how a 19th-century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe	June Barrow-Green, Ian Stewart, Marcus du Sautoy
26 October 2006	The Encyclopédie – the great project of the Enlightenment	Judith Hawley, Caroline Warman, David Wootton
19 October 2006	The Needham Question – did China lay the foundations of modern science?	Chris Cullen, Tim Barrett, Frances Wood
12 October 2006	The Diet of Worms – Luther's stand against the Church	Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi, Charlotte Methuen
5 October 2006	Averroes – the battle between faith and reason	Amira Bennison, Peter Adamson, Sir Anthony Kenny
28 September 2006	Alexander von Humboldt – the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist	Jason Wilson, Patricia Fara, Jim Secord

2005–2006

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
13 July 2006	Greek Comedy – sing as you revel and rout	Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, Nick Lowe
6 July 2006	Pastoral Literature – the romantic idealisation of the countryside	Helen Cooper, Laurence Lerner, Julie Sanders
29 June 2006	Galaxies – extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter	John Gribbin, Carolin Crawford, Robert Kennicutt
22 June 2006	The Spanish Inquisition – one of the most barbaric episodes in European history	John Edwards, Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert
15 June 2006	Carbon – the basis of life	Harry Kroto, Monica Grady, Ken Teo
8 June 2006	Uncle Tom's Cabin – the novel that started the American Civil War	Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sarah Meer, Clive Webb
1 June 2006	The Heart – its anatomical and cultural history	David Wootton, Fay Bound Alberti, Jonathan Sawday
25 May 2006	Mathematics and Music – the science behind sound and composition	Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Ruth Tatlow
18 May 2006	John Stuart Mill – one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century	A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Alan Ryan
11 May 2006	Faeries – supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans	Juliette Wood, Diane Purkiss, Nicola Bown
4 May 2006	Astronomy and Empire – the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery	Simon Schaffer, Kristen Lippincott, Allan Chapman
27 April 2006	The Great Exhibition – a wonder of the Victorian world	Jeremy Black, Hermione Hobhouse, Clive Emsley
20 April 2006	The Search for Immunisation – and the battle against smallpox	Nadja Durbach, Chris Dye, Sanjoy Bhattacharya
13 April 2006	The Oxford Movement – Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century	Sheridan Gilley, Frances Knight, Simon Skinner
6 April 2006	Goethe – formation of a German cultural icon	T. C. W. Blanning, Sarah Colvin, W. Daniel Wilson
30 March 2006	The Carolingian Renaissance – the revival of early medieval Western Europe	Matthew Innes, Julia Smith, Mary Garrison
23 March 2006	The Royal Society – the first club for experimental science	Stephen Pumfrey, Lisa Jardine, Michael Hunter
16 March 2006	Don Quixote – Spanish romance and the first novel	Barry Ife, Edwin Williamson, Jane Whetnall
9 March 2006	Negative numbers – how they spread across civilizations	Ian Stewart, Colva Roney-Dougal, Raymond Flood
2 March 2006	Friendship – thinking philosophically about our close companions	Angie Hobbs, Mark Vernon, John Mullan
23 February 2006	Catherine the Great – the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia	Janet Hartley, Simon Dixon, Tony Lentin
16 February 2006	Human Evolution – from early hominids to Homo sapiens	Steve Jones, Fred Spoor, Margaret Clegg
9 February 2006	Geoffrey Chaucer – the first Great English Poet	Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield
2 February 2006	The Abbasid Caliphs – when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world.	Hugh N. Kennedy, Robert Graham Irwin, Amira Bennison
26 January 2006	Seventeenth Century Print Culture – piety, populism and political protest	Kevin Sharpe, Ann Hughes, Joad Raymond
19 January 2006	Relativism – the battle against transcendent knowledge	Barry Smith, Jonathan Rée, Kathleen Lennon
12 January 2006	Prime Numbers – the building blocks of mathematics	Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Jackie Stedall
5 January 2006	The Oath – guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world	Alan Sommerstein, Paul Cartledge, Mary Beard
29 December 2005	Aeschylus' Oresteia – the birth of tragedy	Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill, Thomas Healy
22 December 2005	Heaven – a journey through the afterlife	Valery Rees, Martin Palmer, John Carey
15 December 2005	The Peterloo Massacre – democratic protest and brutal repression	Jeremy Black, Sarah Richardson, Clive Emsley
8 December 2005	Artificial Intelligence – the quest for a machine that can think	Jon Agar, Alison Adam, Igor Aleksander
1 December 2005	Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of Leviathan	Quentin Skinner, David Wootton, Annabel Brett
24 November 2005	The Graviton – the quest for the theoretical gravity particle	Roger Cashmore, Jim Al-Khalili, Sheila Rowan
17 November 2005	Pragmatism – a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America	A. C. Grayling, Julian Baggini, Miranda Fricker
10 November 2005	Greyfriars and Blackfriars – philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church	Henrietta Leyser, Alexander Murray, Sir Anthony Kenny
3 November 2005	Asteroids – celestial bodies from the beginning of time	Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford, John Zarnecki
27 October 2005	Samuel Johnson and His Circle – life with the professional man of letters	John Mullan, Jim McLaverty, Judith Hawley
20 October 2005	Cynicism – bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy	Angie Hobbs, Miriam Griffin, John Moles
13 October 2005	The Rise of the Mammals – life in a cold climate	Richard Corfield, Steve Jones, Jane Francis
6 October 2005	Field of the Cloth of Gold – a Renaissance entente cordiale	Steven Gunn, John Guy, Penny Roberts
29 September 2005	Magnetism – an attractive history	Stephen Pumfrey, John Heilbron, Lisa Jardine

2004–2005

In 2005 listeners were invited to vote in a poll for the greatest philosopher in history. The winner was the subject of the final programme before the summer break. The vote was won by Karl Marx with 27.9% of the votes. Other shortlisted figures were David Hume (12.7%), Ludwig Wittgenstein (6.8%), Friedrich Nietzsche (6.5%), Plato (5.6%), Immanuel Kant (5.6%), Thomas Aquinas (4.8%), Socrates (4.8%), Aristotle (4.5%) and Karl Popper (4.2%).

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
14 July 2005	Karl Marx – In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher	A. C. Grayling, Francis Wheen, Gareth Stedman Jones
7 July 2005	Christopher Marlowe – poet, spy, atheist, murder victim?	Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith
30 June 2005	Merlin – the original Welsh wizard	Juliette Wood, Stephen Knight, Peter Forshaw
23 June 2005	The K–T boundary – did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away?	Simon Kelley, Jane Francis, Mike Benton
16 June 2005	Paganism in the Renaissance – how the classical gods returned to the Christian cities	Thomas Healy, Charles Hope, Evelyn Welch
9 June 2005	The Scriblerus Club – the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century	John Mullan, Judith Hawley, Marcus Walsh
2 June 2005	Renaissance Maths – the birth of modern mathematics?	Robert Kaplan, Jim Bennett, Jackie Stedall
26 May 2005	The Terror – when Madame Guillotine ruled France	Mike Broers, Rebecca Spang, T. C. W. Blanning
19 May 2005	Beauty – the philosophy of beauty	Angie Hobbs, Susan James, Julian Baggini
5 May 2005	Abelard and Heloise – love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris	A. C. Grayling, Henrietta Leyser, Michael Clanchy
28 April 2005	Perception and the Senses – how do we see what we see?	Richard Gregory, David Moore, Gemma Calvert
21 April 2005	The Aeneid – the Roman history of the world	Edith Hall, Philip Hardie, Catharine Edwards
14 April 2005	Archaeology and Imperialism – conquest of the past	Tim Champion, Richard Parkinson, Eleanor Robson
7 April 2005	Alfred and the Battle of Edington – without Alfred, no England?	Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot, John Hines
31 March 2005	John Ruskin – a different kind of Victorian	Dinah Birch, Keith Hanley, Stefan Collini
24 March 2005	Angels – how they got their wings	Martin Palmer, Valery Rees, John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
17 March 2005	Dark Energy – the unknown force breaking the universe apart	Sir Martin Rees, Carolin Crawford, Sir Roger Penrose
10 March 2005	Modernist Utopias – the original 21st century	John Carey, Steve Connor, Laura Marcus
3 March 2005	Stoicism – the search for inner calm	Angie Hobbs, Jonathan Rée, David Sedley
24 February 2005	Alchemy – seeking the perfection of all things	Peter Forshaw, Lauren Kassell, Stephen Pumfrey
17 February 2005	The Cambrian Explosion – the big bang of evolutionary history	Simon Conway Morris, Richard Corfield, Jane Francis
13 January 2005	The Mind/Body Problem – does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind?	A. C. Grayling, Julian Baggini, Susan James
6 January 2005	The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II – did his killing cause the Russian Revolution?	Orlando Figes, Dominic Lieven, Catriona Kelly
30 December 2004	The Roman Republic – what were Rome's republican ideals?	Greg Woolf, Catherine Steel, Tom Holland
23 December 2004	Faust – the original pact with the Devil	Juliette Wood, Osman Durrani, Rosemary Ashton
16 December 2004	The Second Law of Thermodynamics – the most important thing you will ever know	John Gribbin, Peter Atkins, Monica Grady
9 December 2004	Machiavelli and the Italian City States – high politics and low cunning in the Italian Renaissance	Quentin Skinner, Evelyn Welch, Lisa Jardine
2 December 2004	Carl Gustav Jung – Discovering the Self	Brett Kahr, Ronald Hayman, Andrew Samuels
25 November 2004	The Venerable Bede – the father of English history	Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot, Michelle Brown
18 November 2004	Higgs Boson – the search for the God particle	Jim Al-Khalili, David Wark, Roger Cashmore
11 November 2004	Zoroastrianism – was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism?	Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Farrokh Vajifdar, Alan Williams
4 November 2004	Electrickery – the origins of electricity	Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara, Iwan Morus
28 October 2004	Rhetoric – from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues	Angie Hobbs, Thomas Healy, Ceri Sullivan
21 October 2004	Witchcraft – Reformation Europe turned upon itself	Alison Rowlands, Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill
14 October 2004	The Han Synthesis – creating the Chinese cosmos	Chris Cullen, Carol Michaelson, Roel Sterckx
7 October 2004	Jean-Paul Sartre – a man condemned to be free	Jonathan Rée, Benedict O'Donohoe, Christina Howells
30 September 2004	Politeness – the great 18th century craze	Amanda Vickery, David Wootton, John Mullan
23 September 2004	The Origins of Life – how it all began	Richard Dawkins, Richard Corfield, Linda Partridge
16 September 2004	Agincourt – the real facts behind the battle.	Anne Curry, Michael Jones, John Watts
9 September 2004	The Odyssey – Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home	Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin
2 September 2004	Pi – the number that doesn't add up	Robert Kaplan, Eleanor Robson, Ian Stewart

2003–2004

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
24 June 2004	George Washington and the American Revolution – the most significant event in history	Carol Berkin, Simon Middleton, Colin Bonwick
17 June 2004	Renaissance Magic – the great passion of the age	Peter Forshaw, Valery Rees, Jonathan Sawday
10 June 2004	Empiricism – the English philosophy?	Judith Hawley, Murray Pittock, Jonathan Rée
3 June 2004	Babylon – the great forgotten civilisation	Eleanor Robson, Irving Finkel, Andrew R. George
27 May 2004	Planets – the astronomy of the 21st century	Paul Murdin, Hugh R. A. Jones, Carolin Crawford
20 May 2004	Toleration – from medieval intolerance to religious freedom	Justin Champion, David Wootton, Sarah Barber
13 May 2004	Zero – everything about nothing	Robert Kaplan, Ian Stewart, Lisa Jardine
6 May 2004	Heroism – do we live in an heroic age?	Angie Hobbs, A. C. Grayling, Paul Cartledge
29 April 2004	Tea – an empire in a teacup	Huw Bowen, James Walvin, Amanda Vickery
22 April 2004	Hysteria – the normal state of human beings?	Juliet Mitchell, Rachel Bowlby, Brett Kahr
15 April 2004	The Later Romantics – the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley	Jonathan Bate, Robert Woof, Jennifer Wallace
8 April 2004	The Fall – how Adam and Eve affect us all	Martin Palmer, Griselda Pollock, John Carey
1 April 2004	China: The Warring States period – the fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation	Chris Cullen, Vivienne Lo, Carol Michaelson
25 March 2004	Theories of Everything – still the holy grail of physics?	Brian Greene, John D. Barrow, Val Gibson
18 March 2004	The Roman Empire's Decline and Fall – was Edward Gibbon right about the reasons? ( Repeat of episode 5 April 2001 )	Charlotte Roueché, David Womersley, Richard Alston
11 March 2004	The Norse Gods – the great myths of pagan Europe	Carolyne Larrington, Heather O'Donoghue, John Hines
4 March 2004	Dreams – is there a science of dreams?	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Mark Solms, Martin Conway
26 February 2004	The Mughal Empire – the glory of India	Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Susan Stronge, Chandrika Kaul
19 February 2004	Rutherford – the father of nuclear physics	Simon Schaffer, Jim Al-Khalili, Patricia Fara
12 February 2004	The Sublime – defining the state of awe	Janet Todd, Anne Janowitz, Peter de Bolla
5 February 2004	The Battle of Thermopylae – battle that defined East and West	Tom Holland, Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall
29 January 2004	Cryptography – secret history of ciphers and codes	Simon Singh, Fred Piper, Lisa Jardine
26 December 2003	Lamarck and Natural Selection – the Lamarckian Heresy	Sandy Knapp, Steve Jones, Simon Conway Morris
18 December 2003	The Alphabet – its creation and development	Eleanor Robson, Alan Millard, Rosalind Thomas
11 December 2003	The Devil – a brief biography	Martin Palmer, Alison Rowlands, David Wootton
4 December 2003	Wittgenstein – a philosophy of linguistics	Ray Monk, Barry Smith, Marie McGinn
27 November 2003	St Bartholomew's Day Massacre – slaughter in Paris.	Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass, Penny Roberts
20 November 2003	Ageing the Earth – a journey in geological time.	Richard Corfield, Hazel Rymer, Henry Gee
13 November 2003	Duty – concepts of obligation.	Angie Hobbs, Annabel Brett, A. C. Grayling
6 November 2003	Sensation – the best sellers of the 19th century.	John Mullan, Lyn Pykett, Dinah Birch
30 October 2003	Robin Hood – the greatest of English myths.	Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn, Juliette Wood
23 October 2003	Infinity – a brief history.	Ian Stewart, Robert Kaplan, Sarah Rees
16 October 2003	The Schism – between East and West in Christianity.	Henrietta Leyser, Norman Housley, Jonathan Shepard
9 October 2003	Bohemianism – a life of art, freedom and poverty	Hermione Lee, Virginia Nicholson, Graham Robb
2 October 2003	James Clerk Maxwell – great 19th century physicist	Simon Schaffer, Peter Harman, Joanna Haigh

2002–2003

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
17 July 2003	The Apocalypse – was it a revelation?	Martin Palmer, Marina Benjamin, Justin Champion
10 July 2003	Nature – from Homer to Darwin	Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards
3 July 2003	Vulcanology – significance of volcanoes.	Hilary Downes, Steve Self, Bill McGuire
26 June 2003	The East India Co – a corporate route to Empire.	Huw Bowen, Linda Colley, Maria Misra
19 June 2003	The Aristocracy – how the ruling class survives	David Cannadine, Rosemary Sweet, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
12 June 2003	The Art of War – maintaining the objective?	Sir Michael Howard, Angie Hobbs, Jeremy Black
5 June 2003	The Lunar Society – scientific ferment 200 years ago.	Simon Schaffer, Jenny Uglow, Peter Jones
29 May 2003	Memory – and the brain	Martin Conway, Mike Kopelman, Kim Graham
22 May 2003	Blood – its religious, medical and moral significance	Miri Rubin, Anne Hardy, Jonathan Sawday
15 May 2003	The Holy Grail – just a medieval myth?	Carolyne Larrington, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Juliette Wood
8 May 2003	The Jacobite Rebellion – could it have succeeded?	Murray Pittock, Stana Nenadic, Allan Macinnes
1 May 2003	Roman Britain – the effects of 400 years of occupation	Greg Woolf, Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards
24 April 2003	Youth – from Adonis to James Dean	Tim Whitmarsh, Thomas Healy, Deborah Thom
17 April 2003	Proust – his life and work	Jacqueline Rose, Malcolm Bowie, Robert Fraser
3 April 2003	The Spanish Civil War – causes and legacy	Paul Preston, Helen Graham, Mary Vincent
27 March 2003	Supernovas – the life cycle of stars	Paul Murdin, Janna Levin, Phil Charles
20 March 2003	Originality – is it just a romantic notion?	John Deathridge, Jonathan Rée, Catherine Belsey
13 March 2003	Redemption – the concept of salvation	Richard Harries, Janet Soskice, Stephen Mulhall
6 March 2003	Meteorology – why does it still fascinate us?	Vladimir Jankovic, Richard Hamblyn, Liba Taub
27 February 2003	The Aztecs – looking behind the myths	Alan Knight, Adrian Locke, Elizabeth Graham
20 February 2003	The Lindisfarne Gospels – unifying Christianity in Britain	Michelle Brown, Richard Gameson, Clare Lees
13 February 2003	Chance and Design in Evolution – Design in Nature	Simon Conway Morris, Sandy Knapp, John Hedley Brooke
6 February 2003	The Epic – from Homer to Joyce	John Carey, Karen Edwards, Oliver Taplin
19 December 2002	The Calendar – a history of the Calendar	Robert Poole, Kristen Lippincott, Peter Watson
12 December 2002	Disease – the fight against diseases and plagues	Anne Hardy, David Bradley, Chris Dye
5 December 2002	The Scottish Enlightenment – how enlightened?	Tom Devine, Karen O'Brien, Alexander Broadie
28 November 2002	Imagination – just what is it?	Susan Stuart, Steven Mithen, Semir Zeki
21 November 2002	Cordoba and Muslim Spain – a culture of tolerance?	Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, Mehri Niknam
14 November 2002	Victorian Realism – how real?	Philip Maurice Davis, A. N. Wilson, Dinah Birch
7 November 2002	Human Nature – innate or nurtured?	Steven Pinker, Janet Radcliffe Richards, John N. Gray
31 October 2002	Architecture and Power – imagery of imperialism	Adrian Tinniswood, Gavin Stamp, Gillian Darley
24 October 2002	The Scientist in History – missionary or monster?	John Gribbin, Patricia Fara, Hugh Pennington
17 October 2002	Slavery and Empire – were Britons also captives?	Linda Colley, Catherine Hall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

2001–2002

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
18 July 2002	History of Heritage	David Cannadine, Miri Rubin, Peter Mandler
11 July 2002	Psychoanalysis – do people crave dictatorship?	Adam Phillips, Sally Alexander, Malcolm Bowie
4 July 2002	Freedom – a principle worth fighting and dying for?	John Keane, Bernard Williams, Annabel Brett
27 June 2002	Cultural Imperialism – should we try to prevent it?	Linda Colley, Phillip Dodd, Mary Beard
20 June 2002	Richard Wagner – his influence on the German spirit.	John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett, Michael Tanner
13 June 2002	The American West – was it an "experiment of liberty"?	Frank McLynn, Jenni Calder, Christopher Frayling
6 June 2002	The Soul – the key to our individuality as humans?	Richard Sorabji, Ruth Padel, Martin Palmer
30 May 2002	The Grand Tour – what drove this desire for travel?	Chloe Chard, Jeremy Black, Edward Chaney
23 May 2002	History of Drugs – their role in medicine and the arts	Richard Davenport-Hines, Sadie Plant, Mike Jay
16 May 2002	Chaos Theory – was the universe chaotic or orderly?	Susan Greenfield, David Papineau, Neil F. Johnson
9 May 2002	The Examined Life – is an unexamined life worth living?	A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Julian Baggini
2 May 2002	Schrodinger's Cat – Quantum Mechanics	Sir Roger Penrose, Fay Dowker, Tony Sudbery
25 April 2002	Tolstoy – the influence of the Russian Novel	A. N. Wilson, Catriona Kelly, Sarah Hudspith
11 April 2002	Bohemia – what did it mean to be Bohemian?	Norman Davies, Karin Friedrich, Robert Pynsent
4 April 2002	ET – new life within our solar system	Simon Goodwin, Heather Couper, Ian Stewart
28 March 2002	The Artist – a special kind of human being?	Emma Barker, Thomas Healy, T. C. W. Blanning
21 March 2002	Marriage – its various forms and the role of the State	Janet Soskice, Frederik Pedersen, Christina Hardyment
14 March 2002	Buddhism – why has it captured the spirit of our age?	Peter Harvey, Kate Crosby, Mahinda Deagallee
7 March 2002	John Milton – poet or politician?	John Carey, Lisa Jardine, Blair Worden
28 February 2002	Virtue – is it derived from reason?	Galen Strawson, Miranda Fricker, Roger Crisp
21 February 2002	The Celts – what were the Celts in Britain really like?	Barry Cunliffe, Alistair Moffat, Miranda Aldhouse-Green
14 February 2002	Anatomy – 2000 years of anatomical study	Harold Ellis, Ruth Richardson, Andrew Cunningham
7 February 2002	The Universe's Shape	Sir Martin Rees, Julian Barbour, Janna Levin
31 January 2002	W B Yeats and Mysticism	Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, Brenda Maddox
24 January 2002	Happiness	Angie Hobbs, Simon Blackburn, A. C. Grayling
17 January 2002	Catharism	Malcolm Barber, Miri Rubin, Euan Cameron
10 January 2002	Nuclear Physics	Jim Al-Khalili, Christine Sutton, John Gribbin
3 January 2002	Sensibility	Claire Tomalin, John Mullan, Hermione Lee
27 December 2001	The Story of Food	Rebecca Spang, Ivan Day, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
20 December 2001	Rome and European Civilization	Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf
13 December 2001	Genetics	Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, Linda Partridge
6 December 2001	Oscar Wilde	Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier, Neil Sammells
29 November 2001	Third Crusade	Jonathan Riley-Smith, Carole Hillenbrand, Tariq Ali
22 November 2001	Oceanography	Margaret Deacon, Tony Rice, Simon Schaffer
15 November 2001	Surrealism	Dawn Ades, Malcolm Bowie, Darian Leader
8 November 2001	The British Empire	Maria Misra, Peter Cain, Catherine Hall
1 November 2001	Confucius	Frances Wood, Tim Barrett, Tao Tao Liu
25 October 2001	Napoleon and Wellington	Andrew Roberts, Mike Broers, Belinda Beaton
18 October 2001	Democracy	Melissa Lane, David Wootton, Tim Winter

2000–2001

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
19 July 2001	Byzantium	Charlotte Roueché, John Julius Norwich, Liz James
12 July 2001	Charles Dickens	Rosemary Ashton, Michael Slater, John Bowen
5 July 2001	The Origins of the Earth	Simon Winchester, Cherry Lewis, John Cosgrove
28 June 2001	Existentialism	A. C. Grayling, Christina Howells, Simon Critchley
21 June 2001	The Sonnet	Sir Frank Kermode, Phillis Levin, Jonathan Bate
14 June 2001	The Legacy of the French Revolution	Stefan Collini, Anne Janowitz, Andrew Roberts
3 May 2001	Evil	Jones Erwin, Stephen Mulhall, Margaret Atkins
26 April 2001	Literary Modernism	John Carey, Laura Marcus, Valentine Cunningham
19 April 2001	The Glorious Revolution	John Spurr, Rosemary Sweet, Scott Mandelbrote
12 April 2001	Black Holes	Sir Martin Rees, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Martin Ward
5 April 2001	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Charlotte Roueché, David Womersley, Richard Alston
29 March 2001	The Philosophy of Love	Roger Scruton, Angie Hobbes, Thomas Docherty
22 March 2001	Fossils	Richard Corfield, Dianne Edwards, Richard Fortey
15 March 2001	The Life of William Shakespeare	Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo
1 March 2001	Money	Niall Ferguson, Richard J. Evans, Jane Humphries
22 February 2001	Quantum Gravity	John Gribbin, Lee Smolin, Janna Levin
15 February 2001	The Restoration	Mark Goldie, Richard Ollard, Clare Jackson
8 February 2001	Humanism	Tony Davies, Lisa Jardine, Simon Goldhill
1 February 2001	Imperial Science	Richard Drayton, Maria Misra, Ziauddin Sardar
25 January 2001	Science and Religion	Stephen Jay Gould, John Haldane, Hilary Rose
18 January 2001	The British Enlightenment	Roy Porter, Linda Colley, Jeremy Black
11 January 2001	Mathematics and Platonism	Ian Stewart, Margaret Wertheim, John D. Barrow
4 January 2001	Gothic	Chris Baldick, A. N. Wilson, Emma Clery
16 November 2000	Nihilism	Rob Hopkins, Raymond Tallis, Catherine Belsey
9 November 2000	Psychoanalysis and Literature	Adam Phillips, Malcolm Bowie, Lisa Appignanesi
2 November 2000	Evolutionary Psychology	Janet Radcliffe Richards, Nicholas Humphrey, Steven Rose
26 October 2000	The Tudor State	John Guy, Christopher Haigh, Christine Carpenter
19 October 2000	Laws of Nature	Mark Buchanan, Frank Close, Nancy Cartwright
12 October 2000	The Romantics	Jonathan Bate, Rosemary Ashton, Nicholas Roe
5 October 2000	Hitler in History	Ian Kershaw, Niall Ferguson, Mary Fulbrook
28 September 2000	London	Peter Ackroyd, Claire Tomalin, Iain Sinclair

1999–2000

From 1 June 2000, and the discussion on The American Ideal, the programme moved from 30 minutes to a 45-minute format.

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
29 June 2000	Imagination and Consciousness	Gerald Edelman, Igor Aleksander, Margaret Boden
22 June 2000	Biography	Richard Holmes, Nigel Hamilton, Amanda Foreman
15 June 2000	Inspiration and Genius	Arthur I. Miller, Michael Howe, Juliet Mitchell
8 June 2000	The Renaissance	Francis Ames-Lewis, Peter Burke, Evelyn Welch
1 June 2000	The American Ideal	Christopher Hitchens, John Keane, Susan Sontag
25 May 2000	Chemical Elements	Paul Strathern, Mary Archer, John Murrell
18 May 2000	The Wars of the Roses	Helen Castor, Colin Richmond, Steven Gunn
11 May 2000	The Work of William Shakespeare	Sir Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer
4 May 2000	Death	Jonathan Dollimore, Thomas Lynch, Marilyn Butler
27 April 2000	Human Origins	Leslie Aiello, Robert Foley, Mark Roberts
20 April 2000	Englishness	Paul Langford, Peter Mandler, Lola Young
13 April 2000	New Wars	Sir Michael Howard, Mary Kaldor, Sir Michael Rose
6 April 2000	The Natural Order	Colin Tudge, Sandy Knapp, Henry Gee
30 March 2000	Lessons from History	Richard J. Evans, Eric Hobsbawm
23 March 2000	Materialism and the Consumer	Rachel Bowlby, William Gibson
16 March 2000	Lenin	Robert Service, Vitali Vitaliev
9 March 2000	The Age of Doubt	A. N. Wilson, Victoria Glendinning
2 March 2000	Metamorphosis	A. S. Byatt, Catherine Bates
24 February 2000	Grand Unified Theory	Brian Greene, Sir Martin Rees
17 February 2000	History of Reading	Kevin Sharpe, Jacqueline Pearson
10 February 2000	Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment	Nicholas Boyle, Simon Schaffer
3 February 2000	Republicanism	Sarah Barber, Andrew Roberts
27 January 2000	Economic Rights	Amartya Sen, Will Hutton
20 January 2000	Masculinity in Literature	Martin Amis, Cora Kaplan
13 January 2000	Information Technology	Charles Leadbeater, Ian Angell
6 January 2000	Climate Change	Sir John Houghton, George Monbiot
30 December 1999	Time	Neil Johnson, Lee Smolin
23 December 1999	Prayer	Russell Stannard, Andrew Samuels
16 December 1999	Medical Ethics	Barry Jackson, Sheila McLean
9 December 1999	Childhood	Christina Hardyment, Theodore Zeldin
2 December 1999	Tragedy	George Steiner, Catherine Belsey
25 November 1999	Consciousness	Ted Honderich, Sir Roger Penrose
18 November 1999	Progress	Anthony O'Hear, Adam Phillips
11 November 1999	The Novel	D. J. Taylor, Gillian Beer
4 November 1999	Education	Mary Warnock, Ted Wragg
28 October 1999	Atrocity in the 20th Century	Jonathan Glover, Gwen Adshead
21 October 1999	The Individual	Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Dollimore
14 October 1999	The Nation State	Norman Davies, Andrew Marr
7 October 1999	Utopia	A. C. Grayling, John Carey
30 September 1999	Maths and Storytelling	John Allen Paulos, Marina Warner
23 September 1999	Genetic Determinism	Steve Jones, Matt Ridley

1998–1999

Broadcast date Listen again	Title	Contributors
22 July 1999	Pain	Patrick Wall, Semir Zeki
15 July 1999	Truth, Lies and Fiction	Elena Lappin, Nick Groom
8 July 1999	Africa	Henry Louis Gates Jr, Anthony Sampson
1 July 1999	Intelligence	Ken Richardson, Michael Ruse
24 June 1999	Capitalism	Anatole Kaletsky, Edward Luttwak
17 June 1999	The Great Disruption	Francis Fukuyama, Amos Oz
10 June 1999	The Monarchy	David Cannadine, Bea Campbell
3 June 1999	Just War	John Keane, Niall Ferguson
27 May 1999	Memory	Malcolm Bowie, Nancy Wood
20 May 1999	The Origins of the Universe	Sir Martin Rees, Paul Davies
13 May 1999	Multiculturalism	Stuart Hall, Avtar Brah
6 May 1999	Mathematics	Ian Stewart, Brian Butterworth
29 April 1999	Artificial Intelligence	Igor Aleksander, John Searle
22 April 1999	Fundamentalism	Karen Armstrong, Tariq Ali
15 April 1999	Evolution	John Maynard Smith, Colin Tudge
8 April 1999	Writing and Political Oppression	Nadine Gordimer, Ariel Dorfman
1 April 1999	Good and Evil	Leszek Kołakowski, Galen Strawson
25 March 1999	20th Century Architecture	Daniel Libeskind, Richard Weston
18 March 1999	Animal Experiments and Rights	Colin Blakemore, Lynda Birke
11 March 1999	History as Science	Jared Diamond, Richard J. Evans
4 March 1999	Shakespeare and Literary Criticism	Harold Bloom, Jacqueline Rose
25 February 1999	The Decline and Fall of the 20th Century Avant Garde	Eric Hobsbawm, Frances Morris
18 February 1999	Space in Religion and Science	John Polkinghorne, Margaret Wertheim
11 February 1999	Language and the Mind	Jonathan Miller, Steven Pinker
4 February 1999	The Legacy of Psychoanalysis	Juliet Mitchell, Adam Phillips
28 January 1999	Ageing	Alan Walker, Tom Kirkwood
21 January 1999	Modern Culture	Will Self, Roger Scruton
14 January 1999	The New Genetics	Grahame Bulfield, Bryan Appleyard
7 January 1999	The Rise of Feminism	Helena Cronin, Germaine Greer
31 December 1998	The British Empire's Legacy	Catherine Hall, Linda Colley
24 December 1998	Neuroscience in the 20th Century	Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
17 December 1998	The American Century	Harry Evans, John Lloyd
10 December 1998	Cultural Rights in the 20th Century	Homi Bhabha, John N. Gray
3 December 1998	History's relevance in the 20th century	Simon Schama, Lady Antonia Fraser
26 November 1998	Work in the 20th Century	Richard Sennett, Theodore Zeldin, Melanie Phillips
19 November 1998	The Brain and Consciousness	Steven Rose, Dan Robinson
12 November 1998	The 20th Century City	Sir Peter Hall, Doreen Massey
5 November 1998	The Perception of Science	John Gribbin, Mary Midgley
29 October 1998	The Revelations of Science	Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan
22 October 1998	Politics in the 20th Century	Gore Vidal, Alan Clark
15 October 1998	War in the 20th Century	Michael Ignatieff, Sir Michael Howard

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