Recent Episodes
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Kali
Mar 27, 2025 – 57:41 -
Pope Joan
Feb 27, 2025 – 46:37 -
Karma
Jul 18, 2024 – 50:55 -
Julian the Apostate
Apr 18, 2024 – 50:14 -
Karl Barth
Jan 4, 2024 – 55:22 -
Julian of Norwich
Nov 16, 2023 – 50:01 -
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Jun 1, 2023 – 48:07 -
The Ramayana
Apr 6, 2023 – 49:35 -
John Donne
Feb 9, 2023 – 51:47 -
Angkor Wat
Jul 21, 2022 – 49:18 -
Comenius
Jun 16, 2022 – 56:32 -
Early Christian Martyrdom
May 26, 2022 – 53:03 -
The Sistine Chapel
Apr 28, 2022 – 55:50 -
In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
Mar 4, 2022 – 01:00 -
Arianism
Apr 15, 2021 – 50:06 -
Medieval Pilgrimage
Feb 18, 2021 – 50:43 -
Saint Cuthbert
Jan 28, 2021 – 56:05 -
John Wesley and Methodism
Dec 10, 2020 – 51:32 -
Deism
Oct 8, 2020 – 48:17 -
The Covenanters
Mar 12, 2020 – 53:49 -
The Rapture
Sep 26, 2019 – 51:14 -
Sir Thomas Browne
Jun 6, 2019 – 52:44 -
Judith beheading Holofernes
Feb 14, 2019 – 49:30 -
Papal Infallibility
Jan 10, 2019 – 51:38 -
The Thirty Years War
Dec 6, 2018 – 50:35 -
Hope
Nov 22, 2018 – 53:01 -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sep 27, 2018 – 49:48 -
Augustine's Confessions
Mar 15, 2018 – 47:55 -
The Siege of Malta, 1565
Jan 11, 2018 – 49:52 -
Thomas Becket
Dec 14, 2017 – 52:52 -
Constantine the Great
Oct 5, 2017 – 48:24 -
al-Biruni
Aug 31, 2017 – 41:52 -
Purgatory
May 25, 2017 – 48:38 -
Baltic Crusades
Nov 24, 2016 – 46:51 -
Lakshmi
Oct 6, 2016 – 47:09 -
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
Jun 2, 2016 – 44:45 -
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
May 12, 2016 – 49:05 -
The Sikh Empire
Apr 7, 2016 – 44:57 -
Mary Magdalene
Feb 25, 2016 – 44:34 -
The Salem Witch Trials
Nov 26, 2015 – 45:28 -
Prester John
Jun 4, 2015 – 44:41 -
Josephus
May 21, 2015 – 45:36 -
Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
Apr 16, 2015 – 45:24 -
Al-Ghazali
Mar 19, 2015 – 44:12 -
Zen
Dec 4, 2014 – 45:08 -
Hildegard of Bingen
Jun 26, 2014 – 44:33 -
The Talmud
May 29, 2014 – 47:48 -
Bishop Berkeley
Mar 20, 2014 – 47:29 -
The Trinity
Mar 13, 2014 – 42:11 -
Hindu Ideas of Creation
Dec 5, 2013 – 41:57
Recent Reviews
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S_Hermes_GWhy Melvyn Bragg?Melvyn Bragg is extremely condescending toward many of his expert guests (the Lakshmi episode was too painful to listen to in full). He cuts them off and poses non-sequitur questions with a strange unnerving aggression. To give this person the entire series makes no sense to me. He grills each expert and has no curiosity about what they then say in response to his questions. His interest seems to be solely directed back toward his own musings. The guests are great, yet the program is often painful.
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absy19Host will not stop speaking over podcast guests.I was very excited to learn about Lakshmi but in that episode I only made it about 15 minutes through because I was already totally lost thanks to the host. It was very difficult to stay with the story of Lakshmi and understand what the guests were trying to teach because the host just kept interrupting them literally over and over again. What’s the point of having guests on if you think you know better than them and you won’t let them finish their thought?
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Arkian26One of the most informative podcast in existenceAs an American but one who loves learning, I am so happy the BBC allows the superb Melvin and his guests to provide me with the opportunity to learn.
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JadaltonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnPlease get a new hostI’m not picky when it comes to host but with all due respect I’ve never heard a host interrupt the guest mid sentence more than this one, and when he does he always changes topics and never lets them finish their thought. Love the pod just hate the host
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mshaw26Great topics, frustrating hostVery interesting podcast with great guests, but host Melvyn Bragg interrupts guests way too often, it can be frustrating to listen to.
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IzzyMuse50BBC Religion Radio Show is Great!Melvin Bragg is an intelligent and witty host. I have listened to this show for years and I have enjoyed learning about ancient and modern religions. Melvin is good at getting to the point and challenging oversimplified assumptions about Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and various faiths. He has very knowledgeable guests each show which add unique perspectives on many ideas and topics. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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omegaxx19A podcast for thinking peopleMelvin Bragg is a host from a different era: knighted for his public radio work, a writer himself, he prepares extensively for each program and holds the guests to a much higher standard than do hosts in almost all other podcasts around these days. Yes he is direct and sometimes rude, probably more so to female guests than male guests (although it’s obvious that some of his favorites are women, eg Angie Hobbes), but at least some instances are actually maneuvers whereby he keeps the guests on topic and in check. The intelligence and articulateness of some of his repeating guests are stunning: I can spend all day listening to Marcus du Sautoy and Ian Stewart on math, Edith Hall on Ancient Greece, or Anthony Grayling on philosophy, and he brings on sometimes independent researchers with extremely unconventional and yet interesting ideas. I take notes on each program as they are so dense in contents. Dislikers can go listen to politically correct hosts politely interview a carefully curated list of racially and ethnically diverse guests (I say this as a colored woman academic), but I take In Our Time with its actual focus on intelligent inquiry and genuine curiosity any day.
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sfitzsiSean FitzsimmonsGenuine experts on interesting subjects. Melvin keeps the discussions brisk and entertaining. I learn so much listening to this show!
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Gary.McDonaldInfrequentI enjoy the podcast, but how infrequently it releases makes it not worth subscribing. I understand this is a subset of the whole In Our Time podcast, but I don’t care about the other stuff they produce.
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SolidThingWorksMust listen to PodcastsWonderful!
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