https://www.spreaker.com/show/in-our-time_1enHistoryCopyright Vendjii Karamatahttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5f9f1506165c82713a7bbf2c58a547d9.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/in-our-time_1Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:05:58 +0000Vendjii KaramataVendjii Karamatafeeds@spreaker.comMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideascleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/superconductivityurn:bbc:podcast:m001hfpcThu, 23 Feb 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery made in 1911 by the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926). He came to call it Superconductivity and it is a set of physical properties that nobody predicted and that none, since, have fully...3086cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/rawls-theory-of-justiceurn:bbc:podcast:m001h4bzThu, 16 Feb 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (1921 - 2002) which has been called the most influential book in twentieth century political philosophy. It was first published in 1971. Rawls (pictured above) drew on his own...3681cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/john-donneurn:bbc:podcast:m001gx0kThu, 09 Feb 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Donne (1573-1631), known now as one of England’s finest poets of love and notable in his own time as an astonishing preacher. He was born a Catholic in a Protestant country and, when he married Anne More without her...3149cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-great-stinkurn:bbc:podcast:m001gjcmThu, 26 Jan 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the stench from the River Thames in the hot summer of 1858 and how it appalled and terrified Londoners living and working beside it, including those in the new Houses of Parliament which were still under construction....3140cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/persuasionurn:bbc:podcast:m001g9cvThu, 19 Jan 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Austen’s last complete novel, which was published just before Christmas in 1817, five months after her death. It is the story of Anne Elliot, now 27 and (so we are told), losing her bloom, and of her feelings for...3091cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/citizen-kaneurn:bbc:podcast:m001g37lThu, 12 Jan 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' film, released in 1941, which is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, films yet made. Welles plays the lead role of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate, and Welles directed,...3301cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-irish-rebellion-of-1798urn:bbc:podcast:m001fwb9Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the momentum behind rebellion in Ireland in 1798, the people behind the rebellion and the impact over the next few years and after. Amid wider unrest, the United Irishmen set the rebellion on its way, inspired by the...3367cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-nibelungenliedurn:bbc:podcast:m001fmpdThu, 29 Dec 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Song of the Nibelungs, a twelfth century German epic, full of blood, violence, fantasy and bleakness. It is a foundational work of medieval literature, drawing on the myths of Scandinavia and central Europe. The...3331cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-challenger-expedition-1872-1876urn:bbc:podcast:m001fcvdThu, 22 Dec 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the voyage of HMS Challenger which set out from Portsmouth in 1872 with a mission a to explore the ocean depths around the world and search for new life. The scale of the enterprise was breath taking and, for its...3115cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/demosthenes-philippicsurn:bbc:podcast:m001f4wsThu, 15 Dec 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speeches that became a byword for fierce attacks on political opponents. It was in the 4th century BC, in Athens, that Demosthenes delivered these speeches against the tyrant Philip II of Macedon, father of...3457cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/bauhausurn:bbc:podcast:m001dxtgThu, 08 Dec 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bauhaus which began in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, as a school for arts and crafts combined, and went on to be famous around the world. Under its first director, Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus moved to Dessau and extended...3447cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-morant-bay-rebellionurn:bbc:podcast:m001dnlrThu, 01 Dec 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rebellion that broke out in Jamaica on 11th October 1865 when Paul Bogle (1822-65) led a protest march from Stony Gut to the courthouse in nearby Morant Bay. There were many grounds for grievance that day and soon...3264cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/wilfred-owenurn:bbc:podcast:m001df48Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated British poet of World War One. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) had published only a handful of poems when he was killed a week before the end of the war, but in later decades he became seen as the essential...3477cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-fish-tetrapod-transitionurn:bbc:podcast:m001d56qThu, 17 Nov 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest changes in the history of life on Earth. Around 400 million years ago some of our ancestors, the fish, started to become a little more like humans. At the swampy margins between land and water, some...3375cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/berthe-morisoturn:bbc:podcast:m001cxwlThu, 10 Nov 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). The men in her circle could freely paint in busy bars and public spaces, while Morisot captured the...3662cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-knights-templarurn:bbc:podcast:m001cpwtThu, 03 Nov 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the military order founded around 1119, twenty years after the Crusaders captured Jerusalem. For almost 200 years the Knights Templar were a notable fighting force and financial power in the Crusader States and Western...3041cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-electronurn:bbc:podcast:m001cf1nThu, 27 Oct 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss an atomic particle that's become inseparable from modernity. JJ Thomson discovered the electron 125 years ago, so revealing that atoms, supposedly the smallest things, were made of even smaller things. He pictured them...3029cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/platos-atlantisurn:bbc:podcast:m001c6t3Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's account of the once great island of Atlantis out to the west, beyond the world known to his fellow Athenians, and why it disappeared many thousands of years before his time. There are no sources for this story...3297cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/nineteen-eighty-foururn:bbc:podcast:m001bz77Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a dystopian London which is now found in Airstrip One, part of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania which is always at war and where the protagonist,...3231cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/john-bullurn:bbc:podcast:m0018nsdThu, 28 Jul 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and his development as both British and Britain in the following centuries. He first appeared along with Lewis Baboon (French) and Nicholas Frog (Dutch) in 1712...3303cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/angkor-waturn:bbc:podcast:m0018hd7Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on Earth, built for Suryavarman II in the 12th Century in modern-day Cambodia. It is said to have more stone in it than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and...3000cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/dylan-thomasurn:bbc:podcast:m001882kThu, 14 Jul 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). He wrote some of his best poems before he was twenty in the first half of his short, remarkable life, and was prolific in the second half too with poems such as...3083cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-death-of-starsurn:bbc:podcast:m0018128Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the abrupt transformation of stars after shining brightly for millions or billions of years, once they lack the fuel to counter the force of gravity. Those like our own star, the Sun, become red giants, expanding...3531cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/hegels-philosophy-of-historyurn:bbc:podcast:m0017k8wThu, 23 Jun 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) on history. Hegel, one of the most influential of the modern philosophers, described history as the progress in the consciousness of freedom, asking whether we enjoy...3252cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/comeniusurn:bbc:podcast:m0017chyThu, 16 Jun 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670) known throughout Europe in his lifetime under the Latin version of his name, Comenius. A Protestant and member of the Unity of Brethren, he lived much of his life in...3434cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/tang-era-poetryurn:bbc:podcast:m00174d0Thu, 09 Jun 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss two of China’s greatest poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, who wrote in the 8th century in the Tang Era. Li Bai (701-762AD) is known for personal poems, many of them about drinking wine, and for finding the enjoyment in life. Du...2875cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-davidian-revolutionurn:bbc:podcast:m0016xtyThu, 02 Jun 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on neighbouring lands. The youngest son of Malcolm III, he was raised in exile in the Anglo-Norman court and became Earl of Huntingdon and Prince of...3058cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/early-christian-martyrdomurn:bbc:podcast:m0016pttThu, 26 May 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of the killings of Christians in the first three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. Eusebius was writing in a time of peace, after The Great...3225cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/olympe-de-gougesurn:bbc:podcast:m0016hdjThu, 19 May 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French playwright who, in 1791, wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. This was Olympe de Gouges (1748-93) and she was responding to The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the...3028cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/homo-erectusurn:bbc:podcast:m00168lgThu, 12 May 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of our ancestors, Homo erectus, who thrived on Earth for around two million years whereas we, Homo sapiens, emerged only in the last three hundred thousand years. Homo erectus, or Upright Man, spread from Africa to...3151cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/polidoris-the-vampyreurn:bbc:podcast:m00162xzThu, 05 May 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential novella of John Polidori (1795-1821) published in 1819 and attributed first to Lord Byron (1788-1824) who had started a version of it in 1816 at the Villa Diodati in the Year Without A Summer. There...3119cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-sistine-chapelurn:bbc:podcast:m0015vh8Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing work of Michelangelo (1477-1564) in this great chapel in the Vatican, firstly the ceiling with images from Genesis (of which the image above is a detail) and later The Last Judgement on the altar wall....3427cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/antigoneurn:bbc:podcast:m0015lwjThu, 21 Apr 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigone, by Sophocles (c496-c406 BC), is powerfully ambiguous, inviting the audience to reassess its values constantly before the climax of the play resolves...3293cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/charismaurn:bbc:podcast:m0015b6rThu, 14 Apr 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of charismatic authority developed by Max Weber (1864-1920) to explain why people welcome some as their legitimate rulers and follow them loyally, for better or worse, while following others only dutifully or...3200cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/seismologyurn:bbc:podcast:m00154ghThu, 07 Apr 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the study of earthquakes. A massive earthquake in 1755 devastated Lisbon, and this disaster helped inspire a new science of seismology which intensified after San Francisco in 1906 and advanced even further with the...3017cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-arthashastraurn:bbc:podcast:m0014xt4Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit text the Arthashastra, regarded as one of the major works of Indian literature. Written in the style of a scientific treatise, it provides rulers with a guide on how to govern their territory and...3411cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/in-our-time-is-now-first-on-bbc-soundsurn:bbc:podcast:p0bsctblFri, 04 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataLooking for the latest episode? New episodes of In Our Time will now be available first on BBC Sounds for four weeks before other podcast apps. If you haven’t already, you can download the BBC Sounds app to listen to the In Our Time podcast first....101cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/peter-kropotkinurn:bbc:podcast:m0014pfrThu, 24 Feb 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Russian prince who became a leading anarchist and famous scientist. Kropotkin (1842 - 1921) was born into privilege, very much in the highest circle of Russian society as a pageboy for the Tsar, before he became a...3154cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/romeo-and-julieturn:bbc:podcast:m0014gmlThu, 17 Feb 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the young...3055cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/walter-benjaminurn:bbc:podcast:m0014710Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most celebrated thinkers of the twentieth century. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, critic, historian, an investigator of culture, a maker of radio programmes and more. Notably,...3074cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/coletteurn:bbc:podcast:m0013rmwThu, 27 Jan 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding French writers of the twentieth century. The novels of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954) always had women at their centre, from youth to mid-life to old age, and they were phenomenally...3129cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-gold-standardurn:bbc:podcast:m0013hh7Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the system that flourished from 1870 when gold became dominant and more widely available, following gold rushes in California and Australia. Banknotes could be exchanged for gold at central banks, the coins in...2982cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/thomas-hardys-poetryurn:bbc:podcast:m00139nwThu, 13 Jan 2022 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928) and his commitment to poetry, which he prized far above his novels. In the 1890s, once he had earned enough from his fiction, Hardy stopped writing novels altogether and returned to the poetry...3084cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-hittitesurn:bbc:podcast:m0012q5nThu, 23 Dec 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire that flourished in the Late Bronze Age in what is now Turkey, and which, like others at that time, mysteriously collapsed. For the next three thousand years these people of the Land of Hatti, as they called...3216cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/a-christmas-carolurn:bbc:podcast:m0012fl5Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' novella, written in 1843 when he was 31, which has become intertwined with his reputation and with Christmas itself. Ebenezer Scrooge is the miserly everyman figure whose joyless obsession with money...3420cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-may-fourth-movementurn:bbc:podcast:m001282cThu, 09 Dec 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the violent protests in China on 4th May 1919 over the nation's humiliation in the Versailles Treaty after World War One. China had supported the Allies, sending workers to dig trenches, and expected to regain the...3219cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-battle-of-trafalgarurn:bbc:podcast:m0012141Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events of 21st October 1805, in which the British fleet led by Nelson destroyed a combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the Atlantic off the coast of Spain. Nelson's death that day was deeply mourned in Britain, and his...3159cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/platos-gorgiasurn:bbc:podcast:m0011rzyThu, 25 Nov 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Plato's most striking dialogues, in which he addresses the real nature of power and freedom, and the relationship between pleasure and true self-interest. As he tests these ideas, Plato creates powerful...3045cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-decadent-movementurn:bbc:podcast:m0011lrnThu, 18 Nov 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the British phase of a movement that spread across Europe in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Influenced by Charles Baudelaire and by Walter Pater, these Decadents rejected the mainstream Victorian view that art...3124cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/william-and-caroline-herschelurn:bbc:podcast:m0011c4pThu, 11 Nov 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Herschel (1738 – 1822) and his sister Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) who were born in Hanover and made their reputation in Britain. William was one of the most eminent astronomers in British history. Although...3098cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-song-of-rolandurn:bbc:podcast:m00114m8Thu, 04 Nov 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss an early masterpiece of French epic poetry, from the 12th Century. It is a reimagining of Charlemagne’s wars in Spain in the 8th Century in which Roland, his most valiant knight, chooses death before dishonour,...3196cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/iris-murdochurn:bbc:podcast:m0010q90Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999). In her lifetime she was most celebrated for her novels such as The Bell and The Black Prince, but these are now sharing the spotlight with her philosophy....3307cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-polish-lithuanian-commonwealthurn:bbc:podcast:m0010f8zThu, 14 Oct 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the republic that emerged from the union of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th Century. At first this was a personal union, similar to that of James I and VI in Britain, but this was...2965cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-manhattan-projecturn:bbc:podcast:m00108h1Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb in the USA during World War Two. Before the war, scientists in Germany had discovered the potential of nuclear fission and scientists in Britain soon argued that this could be used to...2945cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hallurn:bbc:podcast:m00100bwThu, 30 Sep 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's second novel, published in 1848, which is now celebrated alongside those of her sisters but which Charlotte Bronte tried to suppress as a 'mistake'. It examines the life of Helen, who has escaped her...3015cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/herodotusurn:bbc:podcast:m000zv33Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of histories, dubbed by his detractors as the father of lies. Herodotus (c484 to 425 BC or later) was raised in Halicarnassus in modern Turkey when it was part of the Persian empire...3180cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-evolution-of-crocodilesurn:bbc:podcast:m000zmhfThu, 16 Sep 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable diversity of the animals that dominated life on land in the Triassic, before the rise of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic, and whose descendants are often described wrongly as 'living fossils'. For tens of...3260cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-treaty-of-limerick-summer-repeat
The image above is from British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant, 1880, and is meant to show Irish troops leaving Limerick as part of The Flight of the Wild Geese - a term used for soldiers joining continental European armies from C16th-C18th.

With

Jane Ohlmeyer
Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin

Dr Clare Jackson
Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

and

Thomas O'Connor
Professor of History at Maynooth University

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>urn:bbc:podcast:p09rvf9hThu, 26 Aug 2021 08:02:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1691 peace treaty that ended the Williamite War in Ireland, between supporters of the deposed King James II and the forces of William III and his allies. It followed the battles at Aughrim and the Boyne and sieges...
The image above is from British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant, 1880, and is meant to show Irish troops leaving Limerick as part of The Flight of the Wild Geese - a term used for soldiers joining continental European armies from C16th-C18th.

With

Jane Ohlmeyer
Chair of the Irish Research Council and Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin

Dr Clare Jackson
Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

and

Thomas O'Connor
Professor of History at Maynooth University

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>3188cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/ovid
With

Maria Wyke
Professor of Latin at University College London

Gail Trimble
Brown Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Trinity College at the University of Oxford

And

Dunstan Lowe
Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature at the University of Kent


Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>urn:bbc:podcast:m000vhk5Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC-17/18AD) who, as he described it, was destroyed by 'carmen et error', a poem and a mistake. His works have been preserved in greater number than any of the poets of his age,...
With

Maria Wyke
Professor of Latin at University College London

Gail Trimble
Brown Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Trinity College at the University of Oxford

And

Dunstan Lowe
Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature at the University of Kent


Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>2980cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-late-devonian-extinction
The image above is an abstract group of the huge, armoured Dunkleosteus fish, lost in the Late Devonian Extinction

With

Jessica Whiteside
Associate Professor of Geochemistry in the Department of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton

David Bond
Professor of Geology at the University of Hull

And

Mike Benton
Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Bristol.]]>urn:bbc:podcast:m000sz7xThu, 11 Mar 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating mass extinctions of the Late Devonian Period, roughly 370 million years ago, when around 70 percent of species disappeared. Scientists are still trying to establish exactly what happened, when and why,...
The image above is an abstract group of the huge, armoured Dunkleosteus fish, lost in the Late Devonian Extinction

With

Jessica Whiteside
Associate Professor of Geochemistry in the Department of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton

David Bond
Professor of Geology at the University of Hull

And

Mike Benton
Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Bristol.]]>2954cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner
The image above is from Gustave Doré's illustration of the mariner's shooting of the albatross, for an 1877 German language edition of the poem

With

Sir Jonathan Bate
Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University

Tom Mole
Professor of English Literature and Book History at the University of Edinburgh

And

Rosemary Ashton
Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>urn:bbc:podcast:m000srdxThu, 04 Mar 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataIn this 900th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the best known and most influential of the poems of the Romantic movement. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1798 after...
The image above is from Gustave Doré's illustration of the mariner's shooting of the albatross, for an 1877 German language edition of the poem

With

Sir Jonathan Bate
Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University

Tom Mole
Professor of English Literature and Book History at the University of Edinburgh

And

Rosemary Ashton
Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>3190cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/marcus-aurelius
The image above shows part of a bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.

With

Simon Goldhill
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge

Angie Hobbs
Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield

And

Catharine Edwards
Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>urn:bbc:podcast:m000sjxtThu, 25 Feb 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, according to Machiavelli, was the last of the Five Good Emperors. Marcus Aurelius, 121 to 180 AD, has long been known as a model of the philosopher king, a Stoic who, while on military campaigns, compiled...
The image above shows part of a bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.

With

Simon Goldhill
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge

Angie Hobbs
Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield

And

Catharine Edwards
Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>3165cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/medieval-pilgrimage
The image above is of a badge of St Thomas of Canterbury, worn by pilgrims who had journeyed to his shrine.

With

Miri Rubin
Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London

Kathryn Rudy
Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews

And

Anthony Bale
Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>urn:bbc:podcast:m000s9qpThu, 18 Feb 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea and experience of Christian pilgrimage in Europe from the 12th to the 15th centuries, which figured so strongly in the imagination of the age. For those able and willing to travel, there were countless...
The image above is of a badge of St Thomas of Canterbury, worn by pilgrims who had journeyed to his shrine.

With

Miri Rubin
Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London

Kathryn Rudy
Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews

And

Anthony Bale
Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>3052cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/13267678/the-rosetta-stone
With
Penelope Wilson
Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at Durham University

Campbell Price
Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum

And

Richard Bruce Parkinson
Professor of Egyptology and Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

Producer: Simon Tillotson]]>urn:bbc:podcast:m000s2qdThu, 11 Feb 2021 10:15:00 +0000Vendjii KaramataMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most famous museum objects in the world, shown in the image above in replica, and dating from around 196 BC. It is a damaged, dark granite block on which you can faintly see three scripts engraved: Greek at...
With
Penelope Wilson
Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at Durham University

Campbell Price
Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the Manchester Museum

And

Richard Bruce Parkinson
Professor of Egyptology and Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

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