BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, 18th Century (original) (raw)
18th Century
Browse the 18th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hamilton, Madison and Jay's urgings for a US Constitution.
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12 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
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20 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea which dominated European economies for 300 years.
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16 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and early consequences of the 1798 rebellion.
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08 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
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30 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
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21 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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17 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
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03 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
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13 May 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
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08 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
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04 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
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10 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous drowning of enslaved Africans in 1781.
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26 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731).
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05 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who ruled Austria, shaking up the European order
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22 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cause and impact of the 18th Century gin craze.
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02 Apr 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee and its impact
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12 Dec 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
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24 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas on the education of children
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10 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes of the violence of June 1780 and repercussions.
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02 May 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess, guillotined as Queen of France.
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08 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
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25 Oct 2018