In Our Time: History

In Our Time: History

Author: BBC Radio 4 Language: English Episodes: 100
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History
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Episodes
The Mytilenaean Debate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:02
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Athenians decided to send a fast ship to Lesbos in 427BC, rowing through the night to catch one they sent the day before. That earlier ship had instructions to kill all adult men in My…
The Inca [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:49
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the people of Cusco, in modern Peru, established an empire along the Andes down to the Pacific under their supreme leader Pachacuti. Before him, their control grew slowly from C13th an…
President Ulysses S Grant [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:12
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of Grant's presidency on Americans in the years after the Civil War in which he, with Lincoln, had led the Union Army to victory. His predecessor, Andrew Johnson, was prepared t…
The Gordon Riots [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:19
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most destructive riots in London's history, which reached their peak on 7th June 1780 as troops fired on the crowd outside the Bank of England. The leader was Lord George Gordon, head…
Nero [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:24
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of Nero (37-68 AD) who became Emperor at the age of 16. At first he was largely praised for his generosity yet became known for his debauched lifestyle, with allegations he starte…
The Great Irish Famine [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:19
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why the potato crop failures in the 1840s had such a catastrophic impact in Ireland. It is estimated that one million people died from disease or starvation after the blight and another tw…
The Danelaw [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:06
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the effective partition of England in the 880s after a century of Viking raids, invasions and settlements. Alfred of Wessex, the surviving Anglo-Saxon king and Guthrum, a Danish ruler, had…
William Cecil [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:23
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on the British Isles of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most poweful man in the court of Elizabeth I. He was both praised and attacked for his flexibility, adapting to th…
Antarah ibn Shaddad [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:59
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, works, context and legacy of Antarah (525-608AD), the great poet and warrior. According to legend, he was born a slave; his mother was an Ethiopian slave, his father an elite Ara…
Owain Glyndwr [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:47
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of the Welsh nobleman, also known as Owen Glendower, who began a revolt against Henry IV in 1400 which was at first very successful. Glyndwr (c1359-c1415) adopted the title Prince…

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