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'''In Our Time''' is a discussion programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It is currently broadcast on Thursday mornings at 9am; a shortened repeat is aired at 9.30pm on Thursday evenings.
''In Our Time'' is described as a series investigating the "history of ideas". The series covers many different subjects from history, philosophy, the arts or science, one of which is explored in each programme by the presenter Melvyn Bragg with the help of three experts on the subject. The series runs throughout the year except for a summer break of approximately six weeks between July and September.
The BBC website for the programme includes an archive of previous programmes, each available as streaming audio. The archive is divided into sections for the categories of science, religion, philosophy, history and culture, with another section for the programmes of the current series. Since 2005 the programme had been made available for download from the BBC website and iTunes as an mp3 file (podcast) for seven days after transmission. Requests that more or all or the archive be available for download often appear on the messageboard of the series website but the BBC internet producer has responded to point out that through the conditions of the current podcast trial only current editions of the programme (i.e. those broadcast within the last seven day) may be available for download.
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%).
1. Andy Martin, Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge
2. Mary Orr, Professor of French at the University of Southampton
3. Kathleen Burk, Professor of American History at University College London
4. Harry Bennett, Reader in History and Head of Humanities at the University of Plymouth
5. Tim Lockley, Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick
6. Richard Corfield, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences and Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research at the Open University, Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University
7. Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol
8. Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds
9. Melissa Lane, Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University
10. Alexander Broadie, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow, author of ''The Scottish Enlightenment - The Historical Age of the Historical Nation''
11. Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London
12. Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
13. Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde
14. Fran Brearton, Reader in English and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the University of Belfast
15. Anne Curry, Professor of Medieval History at Southampton University
16. Malcolm Vale, Fellow and Tutor in History at St John's College, Oxford
17. Matthew Bennett , Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
18. Carolin Crawford, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
19. Sheila Rowan, Professor in Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow
20. Dinah Birch, Professor of English at the University of Liverpool
21. Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
22. Sarah Hutton, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
23. John Cottingham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
24. Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
25. Edith Hall, Professor of Drama and Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, author of ''Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy'' (Clarendon Press, 1991)
26. Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London
27. Yangwen Zheng, Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Manchester
28. Lars Laamann, Research Fellow in Chinese History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
29. Xun Zhou, Research Fellow in History at SOAS, University of London
30. John Blair, Fellow in History at The Queen's College, Oxford
31. Rosemary Cramp, Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at Durham University
32. Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at Sheffield University
33. David Wilkinson, Consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and President of the History of Anaesthesia Society
34. Stephanie Snow, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester
35. Dr Anne Hardy, Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
36. Katharine Lerman, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University
37. Karen O'Brien, Professor in English at the University of Warwick
38. Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham
39. John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University and director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
40. Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Aberdeen University
41. Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London
42. Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science and Fellow of Linacre College at the University of Oxford
43. Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum
44. Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
45. Robert Hampson, Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London
46. Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
47. Peter Jackson, Professor of Medieval History at Keele University
48. Naomi Standen, Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University
49. George Lane, Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
50. Jackie Stedall, Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford
51. Serafina Cuomo, Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London
52. George Phillips, Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews University
53. Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester
54. Simon Ditchfield, Reader in History at the University of York
55. Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford
56. Efraín Kristal, Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles
57. Evelyn Fishburn, Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London
58. Roger Crowley, author and historian
59. Judith Herrin, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London
60. Colin Imber, formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University
61. Margaret Kean, Tutor and Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
62. George Gheverghese Joseph, Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University
63. Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews
64. Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University
65. Iwan Morus, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
66. Miranda Fricker, Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
67. Caroline Barron, Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London
68. Alastair Dunn, author of ''The Peasants' Revolt - England's Failed Revolution of 1381''
69. Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University
70. Valerie Rumbold, Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University
71. June Barrow-Green, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University
72. Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
73. Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford
74. David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York
75. Dr Chris Cullen, Director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University
76. Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS), University of London
77. Frances Wood, Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library
78. David Bagchi, Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull
79. Reverend Dr Charlotte Methuen, Lecturer in Reformation History at the University of Oxford
80. Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
81. Peter Adamson, Reader in Philosophy at King's College London
82. Jason Wilson, Professor of Latin American Literature at University College London
83. Patricia Fara, Affiliated Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare College and author of ''Newton: the Making of Genius''
84. Jim Secord, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project
85. Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham
86. John Edwards, Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
87. Alexander Murray, Medieval historian and Emeritus Fellow in History at University College, Oxford
88. Michael Alpert, Emeritus Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Spain at the University of Westminster
89. Ken Teo, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University
90. Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier, Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham
91. Dr Sarah Meer, Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
92. Dr Clive Webb, Reader in American History at the University of Sussex
93. Fay Bound Alberti, Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester
94. Ruth Tatlow, Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm
95. Dr Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff and Secretary of the Folklore Society
96. Diane Purkiss, Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford
97. Nicola Bown, Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
98. Kristen Lippincott, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
99. Hermione Hobhouse, Architectural Historian and Writer
100. Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah
101. Dr Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology
102. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
103. Sheridan Gilley, Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham
104. Frances Knight, Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Lampeter
105. Simon Skinner, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford
106. Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh
107. W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London
108. Matthew Innes, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
109. Julia Smith, Edwards Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow University
110. Mary Garrison, Lecturer in History at the University of York
111. Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster
112. Barry Ife, Cervantes Professor Emeritus at King's College London
113. Jane Whetnall, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
114. Raymond Flood, Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at Kellogg College, Oxford
115. Mark Vernon, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University
116. Janet Hartley, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics
117. Simon Dixon, Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds
118. Tony Lentin, Professor of History at the Open University
119. Fred Spoor, Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London
120. Margaret Clegg, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London
121. Dr Carolyne Larrington, Tutor in Medieval English at St John's College, Oxford
122. Ardis Butterfield, Reader in English at University College London
123. Kevin Sharpe, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
124. Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele
125. Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia
126. Barry Smith, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
127. Kathleen Lennon, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull
128. Alan Sommerstein, Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham
129. Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London
130. Valery Rees, Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science, a translator of Ficino's letters
131. Sarah Richardson, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
132. Jon Agar, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
133. Alison Adam, Professor of Information Systems at Salford University
134. Annabel Brett, Fellow of Gonville and Caius and Senior Lecturer in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, editor with Quentin Skinner of ''Liberty, Right and Nature'' (Cambridge University Press).
135. Henrietta Leyser, Medieval Historian and Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford
136. Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
137. John Moles, Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle
138. Steven Gunn, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University
139. Penny Roberts, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
140. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty of Oxford University
141. Emma Smith, Lecturer in English at Oxford University
142. Simon Kelley, Head of Department in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
143. Charles Hope, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London
144. Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and author of ''Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500''
145. Marcus Walsh, Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool
146. Robert Kaplan, Co-founder of ''The Math Circle'' at Harvard University, author of ''The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero'' (Oxford University Press, 2001) and co-author of ''The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers'' (Allen Lane, 2003)
147. Mike Broers, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
148. Rebecca Spang, Lecturer in Modern History at University College London
149. Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
150. Michael Clanchy, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research
151. David Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham
152. Gemma Calvert, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath
153. Philip Hardie, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford
154. Catharine Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London
155. Tim Champion, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
156. Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum
157. Dr Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at Kent University and he is also editor of ''St Augustine and the Conversion of England'' (Sutton Publishing, 1999)
158. Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield
159. John Hines, Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University
160. Keith Hanley, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University
161. Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge
162. John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews
163. Steve Connor, Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London
164. Laura Marcus, Professor of English at the University of Sussex
165. David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
166. Sue James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
167. Dominic Lieven, Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics
168. Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at Oxford University
169. Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University
170. Catherine Steel, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.
171. Osman Durrani, Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury
172. Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
173. Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and a practising Freudian
174. Dr Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and author of ''A Guide to Western Historical Scripts: From Antiquity to 1600'' (British Library Publishing, 1990)
175. David Wark, Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
176. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum
177. Farrokh Vajifdar, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a life-long student of Zoroastrianism
178. Alan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester
179. Ceri Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor
180. Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex
181. Malcolm Gaskill, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge
182. Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum
183. Roel Sterckx, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge
184. Benedict O'Donohoe, Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies
185. Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College
186. Amanda Vickery, Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of ''The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England'' (Yale Nota Bene, 2003)
187. Linda Partridge, Biology and Biotechnology Research Council Professor at University College London
188. John Watts, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christie College, Oxford
189. Carol Berkin, Professor of History at The City University of New York and author of ''A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution'' (Harcourt, 2002)
190. Simon Middleton, Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia
191. Colin Bonwick, Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University
192. Murray Pittock, Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature at the University of Manchester
193. Irving Finkel, Curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the British Museum
194. Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
195. Hugh R. A. Jones, Planet hunter and Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University
196. Sarah Barber, Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
197. Huw Bowen, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester
198. James Walvin, Professor of History at the University of York and author of ''Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800'' (Macmillan, 1997)
199. Rachel Bowlby, Professor of English at the University of York who has written the introduction to the new Penguin translation of Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer's ''Studies in Hysteria'' (Penguin, 2004)
200. Jennifer Wallace, Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge
201. Griselda Pollock, Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds
202. Dr Vivienne Lo, Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
203. Dr Val Gibson, Particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
204. Charlotte Roueché, historian of late antiquity at Kings College London
205. David Womersley, Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford and editor of Edward Gibbon's ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' (Penguin, 2000)
206. Richard Alston, Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
207. Heather O'Donoghue, Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University
208. Professor V S Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego
209. Mark Solms, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town
210. Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham
211. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford
212. Susan Stronge, Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
213. Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews
214. Annie Janowitz, Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London
215. Peter de Bolla, Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge
216. Professor Fred Piper, Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and co-author of ''Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction'' (co-written with Sean Murphy, Oxford Paperbacks, 2002)
217. Sandy Knapp, Senior Botanist at the Natural History Museum
218. Rosalind Thomas, Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London
219. Marie McGinn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York
220. Mark Greengrass, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield
221. Hazel Rymer, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
222. Lyn Pykett, Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
223. Thomas Hahn, Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York
224. Sarah Rees, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle
225. Virginia Nicholson, author of ''Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939'' (Viking, 2002. Paperback will be published by Penguin, November 2003)
226. Peter Harman, Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and editor of ''The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell'' (3 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 1995, 2002)
227. Joanna Haigh, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London
228. Marina Benjamin, journalist and author of ''Living at the End of the World'' (Picador, 1999)
229. Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter
230. Hilary Downes, Professor of Geochemistry at Birkbeck, University of London
231. Steve Self, Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University
232. Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester
233. Jenny Uglow, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick and author of ''The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future'' (Faber and Faber, 2002)
234. Peter Jones, Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham
235. Mike Kopelman, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas' Hospital
236. Kim Graham, Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
237. Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University
238. Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University
239. Allan Macinnes, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University
240. Tim Whitmarsh, Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at Exeter University
241. Deborah Thom, Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge
242. Dr Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of ''Proust and the Victorians'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994)
243. Helen Graham, Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London
244. Dr Mary Vincent, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University
245. Phil Charles, Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University
246. Professor Catherine Belsey, Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University
247. Janet Soskice, Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University
248. Stephen Mulhall, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University
249. Vladimir Jankovic, Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University and author of ''Reading the Skies'' (Manchester University Press, 2001)
250. Richard Hamblyn, writer and author of ''The Invention of Clouds'' (Picador, 2002)
251. Liba Taub, Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge University and author of a new book called ''Ancient Meteorology'' (Routledge)
252. Adrian Locke, co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts
253. Elizabeth Graham, Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London
254. Professor Clare Lees, Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London and author of ''Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
255. Robert Poole, Reader in History at St Martin's College Lancaster and author of ''Time's Alteration, Calendar Reform in Early Modern England''
256. David Bradley, Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
257. Karen O'Brien, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick
258. Dr Susan Stuart, Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Glasgow.
259. Steven Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading.
260. Mehri Niknam, Executive Director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London.
261. Philip Maurice Davis, Reader in English Literature at the University of Liverpool and author of ''The Victorians'', a volume of the ''New Oxford English Literary History'' (Oxford University Press 2002)
262. Adrian Tinniswood, Architectural historian and author of ''Visions of Power and His Invention So Fertile - a Life of Christopher Wren'', (Pimlico, ISBN 0712673644)
263. Gavin Stamp, Senior Lecturer, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
264. Gillian Darley, Architectural historian and biographer of ''John Soane, An Accidental Romantic'' (Yale University Press; ISBN 0300086954)
265. Sally Alexander, Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
266. Phillip Dodd, Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts
267. Lucy Beckett, Author of ''Richard Wagner: Parsifal''
268. Michael Tanner, Philosopher and author of ''Wagner and Nietzsche''
269. Frank Mclynn, Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Strathclyde, author of a new book ''Wagon's West - The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails''
270. Richard Sorabji, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College
271. Chloe Chard, Literary historian and author of Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour
272. Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Institute and author of ''A Traveller's Companion to Florence''
273. Mike Jay, Historian and author of ''Emperors of Dreams, Drugs in the Nineteenth Century'', Dedalus Ltd
274. Neil Johnson, University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University
275. Tony Sudbery, Professor of Mathematics, University of York
276. Sarah Hudspith, Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds
277. Karin Friedrich, Lecturer in History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, author of ''The Other Prussia''
278. Robert Pynsent, Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature, University College London, author of ''Decadence and Innovation: Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century''
279. Simon Goodwin, Researcher in Astronomy, Cardiff University, co-author of ''XTL: Extraterrestrial life and how to find it''
280. Emma Barker, Lecturer in Art History at The Open University
281. Frederik Pedersen, Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University
282. Christina Hardyment, Social historian and journalist
283. Peter Harvey, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland
284. Kate Crosby, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS)
285. Mahinda Deagallee, Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.
286. Blair Worden, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sussex and author of ''Roundhead Reputations - The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity''
287. Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford.
288. Alistair Moffat, Writer and Historian and author of ''The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland''
289. Miranda Aldhouse Green, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales and author of ''Dying for the Gods''
290. Harold Ellis, Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London
291. Ruth Richardson, Historian, and author of ''Death, Dissection and the Destitute'', Phoenix Press
292. Andrew Cunningham, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
★ In Our Time at the BBC website
| Contents |
| About the series |
| List of programmes |
| 2007-2006 |
| 2006-2005 |
| 2005-2004 |
| 2004-2003 |
| 2003-2002 |
| 2002 |
| Contributors |
| External links |
About the series
''In Our Time'' is described as a series investigating the "history of ideas". The series covers many different subjects from history, philosophy, the arts or science, one of which is explored in each programme by the presenter Melvyn Bragg with the help of three experts on the subject. The series runs throughout the year except for a summer break of approximately six weeks between July and September.
The BBC website for the programme includes an archive of previous programmes, each available as streaming audio. The archive is divided into sections for the categories of science, religion, philosophy, history and culture, with another section for the programmes of the current series. Since 2005 the programme had been made available for download from the BBC website and iTunes as an mp3 file (podcast) for seven days after transmission. Requests that more or all or the archive be available for download often appear on the messageboard of the series website but the BBC internet producer has responded to point out that through the conditions of the current podcast trial only current editions of the programme (i.e. those broadcast within the last seven day) may be available for download.
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%).
List of programmes
2007-2006
| Broadcast date | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| July 12, 2007 | 'The Trial of Madame Bovary' - "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!" | Andy Martin[1] Mary Orr[2] Robert Gildea |
| July 05, 2007 | The 'Pilgrim Fathers' - the original American dream | Kathleen Burk,[3] Harry Bennett,[4] Tim Lockley[5] |
| June 28, 2007 | 'Permian-Triassic Boundary' - when 95% of life was killed off | Richard Corfield,[6] Mike Benton,[7] Jane Francis[8] |
| June 21, 2007 | 'Common Sense Philosophy' - "there is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it" | A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane,[9] Alexander Broadie[10] |
| June 14, 2007 | 'Renaissance Astrology' - "we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them" | Peter Forshaw,[11] Lauren Kassell,[12] Jonathan Sawday[13] |
| June 7, 2007 | 'Siegfried Sassoon' - the poet who survived | Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton,[14] Max Egremont |
| May 31, 2007 | 'Ockham's Razor' - cutting medieval philosophy down to size | Sir Anthony Kenny, Marilyn McCord Adams, Richard Alan Cross |
| May 24, 2007 | 'The Siege of Orleans' - did Joan of Arc really rescue France? | Anne Curry,[15] Malcolm Vale,[16] Matthew Bennett[17] |
| May 17, 2007 | 'Gravitational Waves' - a new window on the universe | Jim Al-Khalili, Carolin Crawford,[18] Sheila Rowan[19] |
| May 10, 2007 | 'Victorian Pessimism' - fear and loathing in the late 19th century | Dinah Birch,[20] Rosemary Ashton,[21] Peter Mandler |
| May 3, 2007 | 'Spinoza' - believed that God and Nature were the same thing | Jonathan Rée, Sarah Hutton,[22] John Cottingham[23] |
| April 26, 2007 | 'Greek and Roman Love Poetry' - the pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus | Nick Lowe[24], Edith Hall[25], Maria Wyke[26] |
| April 19, 2007 | 'Symmetry' - the pattern at the heart of our physical world | Fay Dowker, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart |
| April 12, 2007 | 'The Opium Wars' - a conflict that was to affect British-Chinese relations for generations | Yangwen Zheng[27], Lars Laamann[28], Xun Zhou[29] |
| April 5, 2007 | 'St Hilda' - the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby | John Blair[30], Rosemary Cramp[31], Sarah Foot[32] |
| March 29, 2007 | 'Anaesthetics' - from ether frolics to pain free surgery | David Wilkinson[33], Stephanie Snow[34], Dr Anne Hardy[35] |
| March 22, 2007 | 'Bismarck' - The Iron Chancellor | Richard J. Evans, Christopher Clark, Katharine Lerman[36] |
| March 15, 2007 | 'Epistolary Literature' - great novels of fictional letters | John Mullan, Karen O'Brien,[37] Brean Hammond[38] |
| March 8, 2007 | 'Microbiology' - the story of the invisible masters of the universe | John Dupré,[39] Anne Glover,[40] Andrew Mendelsohn[41] |
| March 1, 2007 | 'The History of Optics' - from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world | Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett,[42] Emily Winterburn[43] |
| February 22, 2007 | 'William Wilberforce' - the man and his legacy | This broadcast was a documentary rather than a discussion |
| February 15, 2007 | 'Heart of Darkness' - one of the most influential novels of the 20th century | Susan Jones,[44] Robert Hampson,[45] Laurence Davies[46] |
| February 8, 2007 | 'Karl Popper' - his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science | John Worrall, Anthony O'Hear, Nancy Cartwright |
| February 1, 2007 | 'Genghis Khan' - founder of one of the world's largest ever land-based empires | Peter Jackson,[47] Naomi Standen,[48] George Lane[49] |
| January 25, 2007 | 'Archimedes' - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments | Jackie Stedall,[50] Serafina Cuomo,[51] George Phillips[52] |
| January 18, 2007 | 'The Jesuits' - the school masters of Europe | Nigel Aston,[53] Simon Ditchfield,[54] Dame Olwen Hufton |
| January 11, 2007 | 'Mars' - the search for life on the Red Planet | John Zarnecki, Colin Pillinger, Monica Grady |
| January 4, 2007 | 'Borges' - the life and work of Argentina's best loved short story writer | Edwin Williamson,[55] Efraín Kristal,[56] Evelyn Fishburn[57] |
| December 28, 2006 | 'The Siege of Constantinople' - the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire | Roger Crowley,[58] Judith Herrin,[59] Colin Imber[60] |
| December 21, 2006 | 'Hell' - its representation through the ages | Martin Palmer, Margaret Kean,[61] Neil MacGregor |
| December 14, 2006 | 'Indian Maths' - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number | George Gheverghese Joseph,[62] Colva Roney-Dougal,[63] Dennis Almeida[64] |
| December 7, 2006 | 'Anarchism' - a question of authority? | John Keane, Ruth Kinna, Peter Marshall |
| November 30, 2006 | 'The Speed of Light' - a cosmic speed limit? | John D. Barrow, Iwan Morus,[65] Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
| November 23, 2006 | 'Altruism' - how can evolutionary biology explain it? | Miranda Fricker,[66] Richard Dawkins, John Dupré |
| November 16, 2006 | 'The Peasants' Revolt' - a lasting legacy for popular uprising? | Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron,[67] Alastair Dunn[68] |
| November 9, 2006 | 'Alexander Pope' - "short is my date, but deathless my renown" | John Mullan, Jim McLaverty,[69] Valerie Rumbold[70] |
| November 2, 2006 | 'The Poincaré conjecture' - how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe | June Barrow-Green,[71] Ian Stewart, Marcus du Sautoy |
| October 26, 2006 | 'The Encyclopédie' - the great project of the Enlightenment | Judith Hawley,[72] Caroline Warman,[73] David Wootton[74] |
| October 19, 2006 | 'The Needham Question' - did China lay the foundations of modern science? | Dr Chris Cullen,[75] Tim Barrett,[76] Frances Wood[77] |
| October 12, 2006 | 'The Diet of Worms' - Luther's stand against the Church | Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi,[78] Reverend Dr Charlotte Methuen[79] |
| October 5, 2006 | 'Averroes' - the battle between faith and reason | Amira Bennison,[80] Peter Adamson,[81] Sir Anthony Kenny |
| September 28, 2006 | 'Alexander von Humboldt' - the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist | Jason Wilson,[82] Patricia Fara,[83] Jim Secord[84] |
2006-2005
| Broadcast date | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| July 13, 2006 | 'Greek Comedy' - sing as you revel and rout | Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, Nick Lowe |
| July 6, 2006 | 'Pastoral Literature' - the romantic idealisation of the countryside | Helen Cooper, Laurence Lerner, Julie Sanders[85] |
| June 29, 2006 | 'Galaxies' - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter | John Gribbin, Carolin Crawford, Robert Kennicutt |
| June 22, 2006 | 'The Spanish Inquisition' - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history | John Edwards,[86] Alexander Murray,[87] Michael Alpert[88] |
| June 15, 2006 | 'Carbon' - the basis of life | Harry Kroto, Monica Grady, Ken Teo[89] |
| June 8, 2006 | '''Uncle Tom's Cabin''' - the novel that started the American Civil War | Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier,[90] Dr Sarah Meer,[91] Dr Clive Webb[92] |
| June 1, 2006 | 'The Heart' - its anatomical and cultural history | David Wootton, Fay Bound Alberti,[93] Jonathan Sawday |
| May 25, 2006 | 'Mathematics and Music' - the science behind sound and composition | Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Ruth Tatlow[94] |
| May 18, 2006 | 'John Stuart Mill' - one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century | A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Alan Ryan |
| May 11, 2006 | 'Faeries' - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans | Dr Juliette Wood,[95] Diane Purkiss,[96] Nicola Bown[97] |
| May 4, 2006 | 'Astronomy and Empire' - the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery | Simon Schaffer, Kristen Lippincott,[98] Allan Chapman |
| April 27, 2006 | 'The Great Exhibition' - a wonder of the Victorian world | Jeremy Black, Hermione Hobhouse,[99] Clive Emsley |
| April 20, 2006 | 'The Search for Immunisation' - and the battle against smallpox | Nadja Durbach,[100] Dr Chris Dye,[101] Sanjoy Bhattacharya[102] |
| April 13, 2006 | 'The Oxford Movement' - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century | Sheridan Gilley,[103] Frances Knight,[104] Simon Skinner[105] |
| April 6, 2006 | 'Goethe' - formation of a German cultural icon | T. C. W. Blanning, Sarah Colvin,[106] W. Daniel Wilson[107] |
| March 30, 2006 | 'The Carolingian Renaissance' - the revival of early medieval Western Europe | Matthew Innes,[108] Julia Smith,[109] Mary Garrison[110] |
| March 23, 2006 | 'The Royal Society' - the first club for experimental science | Stephen Pumfrey,[111] Lisa Jardine, Michael Hunter |
| March 16, 2006 | '''Don Quixote''' - Spanish romance and the first novel | Barry Ife,[112] Edwin Williamson, Jane Whetnall[113] |
| March 9, 2006 | 'Negative numbers' - how they spread across civilizations | Ian Stewart, Colva Roney-Dougal, Raymond Flood[114] |
| March 2, 2006 | 'Friendship' - thinking philosophically about our close companions | Angie Hobbs, Mark Vernon,[115] John Mullan |
| February 23, 2006 | 'Catherine the Great' - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia | Janet Hartley,[116] Simon Dixon,[117] Tony Lentin[118] |
| February 16, 2006 | 'Human Evolution' - from early hominids to Homo sapiens | Steve Jones, Fred Spoor,[119] Margaret Clegg[120] |
| February 9, 2006 | 'Geoffrey Chaucer' - the first Great English Poet | Dr Carolyne Larrington,[121] Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield[122] |
| February 2, 2006 | 'The Abbasid Caliphs' - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world. | Hugh N. Kennedy, Robert Graham Irwin, Amira Bennison |
| January 26, 2006 | 'Seventeenth Century Print Culture' - piety, populism and political protest | Kevin Sharpe,[123] Ann Hughes,[124] Joad Raymond[125] |
| January 19, 2006 | 'Relativism' - the battle against transcendent knowledge | Barry Smith,[126] Jonathan Rée, Kathleen Lennon[127] |
| January 12, 2006 | 'Prime Numbers' - the building blocks of mathematics | Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Jackie Stedall |
| January 5, 2006 | 'The Oath' - guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world | Alan Sommerstein,[128] Paul Cartledge, Mary Beard |
| December 29, 2005 | 'Aeschylus' ''Oresteia''' - the birth of tragedy | Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill, Thomas Healy[129] |
| December 22, 2005 | 'Heaven' - a journey through the afterlife | Valery Rees,[130] Martin Palmer, John Carey |
| December 15, 2005 | 'The Peterloo Massacre' - democratic protest and brutal repression | Jeremy Black, Sarah Richardson,[131] Clive Emsley |
| December 8, 2005 | 'Artificial Intelligence' - the quest for a machine that can think | Jon Agar,[132] Alison Adam,[133] Igor Aleksander |
| December 1, 2005 | 'Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of ''Leviathan'' | Quentin Skinner, David Wootton, Annabel Brett[134] |
| November 24, 2005 | 'The Graviton' - the quest for the theoretical gravity particle | Roger Cashmore, Jim Al-Khalili, Sheila Rowan |
| November 17, 2005 | 'Pragmatism' - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America | A. C. Grayling, Julian Baggini, Miranda Fricker |
| November 10, 2005 | 'Greyfriars and Blackfriars' - philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church | Henrietta Leyser,[135] Alexander Murray, Sir Anthony Kenny |
| November 3, 2005 | 'Asteroids' - celestial bodies from the beginning of time | Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford, John Zarnecki |
| October 27, 2005 | 'Samuel Johnson and His Circle' - life with the professional man of letters | John Mullan, Jim McLaverty, Judith Hawley |
| October 20, 2005 | 'Cynicism' - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy | Angie Hobbs, Miriam Griffin,[136] John Moles[137] |
| October 13, 2005 | 'The Rise of the Mammals' - life in a cold climate | Richard Corfield, Steve Jones, Jane Francis |
| October 6, 2005 | '''Field of the Cloth of Gold''' - a Renaissance entente cordiale | Steven Gunn,[138] John Guy, Penny Roberts[139] |
| September 29, 2005 | 'Magnetism' - an attractive history | Stephen Pumfrey, John Heilbron, Lisa Jardine |
2005-2004
| Broadcast date | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| July 14, 2005 | 'Karl Marx' - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher | A. C. Grayling, Francis Wheen, Gareth Stedman Jones |
| July 7, 2005 | 'Christopher Marlowe' - poet, spy, atheist, murder victim? | Katherine Duncan-Jones,[140] Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith[141] |
| June 30, 2005 | 'Merlin' - the original Welsh wizard | Dr Juliette Wood, Stephen Knight, Peter Forshaw |
| June 23, 2005 | 'The KT Boundary' - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away? | Simon Kelley,[142] Jane Francis, Mike Benton |
| June 16, 2005 | 'Paganism in the Renaissance' - how the classical gods returned to the Christian cities | Thomas Healy, Charles Hope,[143] Evelyn Welch[144] |
| June 9, 2005 | 'The Scriblerus Club' - the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century | John Mullan, Judith Hawley, Marcus Walsh[145] |
| June 2, 2005 | 'Renaissance Maths' - the birth of modern mathematics? | Robert Kaplan,[146] Jim Bennett, Jackie Stedall |
| May 26, 2005 | 'The Terror' - when Madame Guillotine ruled France | Mike Broers,[147] Rebecca Spang,[148] T. C. W. Blanning |
| May 19, 2005 | 'Beauty' - the philosophy of beauty | Angie Hobbs, Susan James,[149] Julian Baggini |
| May 5, 2005 | 'Abelard and Heloise' - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris | A. C. Grayling, Henrietta Leyser, Michael Clanchy[150] |
| April 28, 2005 | 'Perception and the Senses' - how do we see what we see? | Richard Gregory, David Moore,[151] Gemma Calvert[152] |
| April 21, 2005 | '''The Aeneid''' - the Roman history of the world | Edith Hall, Philip Hardie,[153] Catharine Edwards[154] |
| April 14, 2005 | 'Archaeology and Imperialism' - conquest of the past | Tim Champion,[155] Richard Parkinson[156], Eleanor Robson |
| April 7, 2005 | 'Alfred and the Battle of Edington' - without Alfred, no England? | Dr Richard Gameson,[157] Sarah Foot,[158] John Hines[159] |
| March 31, 2005 | 'John Ruskin' - a different kind of Victorian | Dinah Birch, Keith Hanley,[160] Stefan Collini[161] |
| March 24, 2005 | 'Angels' - how they got their wings | Martin Palmer, Valery Rees, John Haldane[162] |
| March 17, 2005 | 'Dark Energy' - the unknown force breaking the universe apart | Sir Martin Rees, Carolin Crawford, Sir Roger Penrose |
| March 10, 2005 | 'Modernist Utopias' - the original 21st century | John Carey, Steve Connor,[163] Laura Marcus[164] |
| March 3, 2005 | 'Stoicism' - the search for inner calm | Angie Hobbs, Jonathan Rée, David Sedley[165] |
| February 24, 2005 | 'Alchemy' - seeking the perfection of all things | Peter Forshaw, Lauren Kassell, Stephen Pumfrey |
| February 17, 2005 | 'The Cambrian Explosion' - the big bang of evolutionary history | Simon Conway Morris, Richard Corfield, Jane Francis |
| January 13, 2005 | 'The Mind/Body Problem' - does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind? | A. C. Grayling, Julian Baggini, Sue James[166] |
| January 6, 2005 | 'The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II' - did his killing cause the Russian Revolution? | Orlando Figes, Dominic Lieven,[167] Catriona Kelly[168] |
| December 30, 2004 | 'The Roman Republic' - what were Rome's republican ideals? | Greg Woolf,[169] Catherine Steel,[170] Tom Holland |
| December 23, 2004 | '''Faust''' - the original pact with the Devil | Dr Juliette Wood, Osman Durrani,[171] Rosemary Ashton[21] |
| December 16, 2004 | 'The Second Law of Thermodynamics' - the most important thing you will ever know | John Gribbin, Peter Atkins, Monica Grady |
| December 9, 2004 | 'Machiavelli and the Italian City States' - high politics and low cunning in the Italian Renaissance | Quentin Skinner, Evelyn Welch, Lisa Jardine |
| December 2, 2004 | 'Carl Gustav Jung' - Discovering the Self | Brett Kahr,[173] Ronald Hayman, Andrew Samuels |
| November 25, 2004 | 'The Venerable Bede' - the father of English history | Dr Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot, Dr Michelle Brown[174] |
| November 18, 2004 | 'Higgs Boson' - the search for the God particle | Jim Al-Khalili, David Wark[175], Roger Cashmore |
| November 11, 2004 | 'Zoroastrianism' - was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism? | Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis,[176] Farrokh Vajifdar,[177] Alan Williams[178] |
| November 4, 2004 | 'Electrickery' - the origins of electricity | Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara, Iwan Morus |
| October 28, 2004 | 'Rhetoric' - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues | Angie Hobbs, Thomas Healy, Ceri Sullivan[179] |
| October 21, 2004 | 'Witchcraft' - Reformation Europe turned upon itself | Alison Rowlands,[180] Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill[181] |
| October 14, 2004 | 'The Han Synthesis' - creating the Chinese cosmos | Dr Chris Cullen, Carol Michaelson,[182] Roel Sterckx[183] |
| October 7, 2004 | 'Jean-Paul Sartre' - a man condemned to be free | Jonathan Rée, Benedict O'Donohoe,[184] Christina Howells[185] |
| September 30, 2004 | 'Politeness' - the great 18th century craze | Amanda Vickery,[186] David Wootton, John Mullan |
| September 23, 2004 | 'The Origins of Life' - how it all began | Richard Dawkins, Richard Corfield, Linda Partridge[187] |
| September 16, 2004 | 'Agincourt' - the real facts behind the battle. | Anne Curry, Michael Jones, John Watts[188] |
| September 9, 2004 | '''The Odyssey''' - Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home | Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin |
| September 2, 2004 | 'Pi' - the number that doesn't add up | Robert Kaplan, Eleanor Robson, Ian Stewart |
2004-2003
| Broadcast date | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| June 24, 2004 | 'George Washington and the American Revolution' - the most significant event in history | Carol Berkin,[189] Simon Middleton,[190] Colin Bonwick[191] |
| June 17, 2004 | 'Renaissance Magic' - the great passion of the age | Peter Forshaw, Valery Rees, Jonathan Sawday |
| June 10, 2004 | 'Empiricism' - the English philosophy? | Judith Hawley, Murray Pittock,[192] Jonathan Rée |
| June 3, 2004 | 'Babylon' - the great forgotten civilisation | Eleanor Robson, Irving Finkel[193], Andrew R. George |
| May 27, 2004 | 'Planets' - the astronomy of the 21st century | Paul Murdin,[194] Hugh R. A. Jones,[195] Carolin Crawford |
| May 20, 2004 | 'Toleration' - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom | Justin Champion, David Wootton, Sarah Barber[196] |
| May 13, 2004 | 'Zero' - everything about nothing | Robert Kaplan, Ian Stewart, Lisa Jardine |
| May 6, 2004 | 'Heroism' - do we live in an heroic age? | Angie Hobbs, A. C. Grayling, Paul Cartledge |
| April 29, 2004 | 'Tea' - an empire in a teacup | Huw Bowen,[197] James Walvin,[198] Amanda Vickery |
| April 22, 2004 | 'Hysteria' - the normal state of human beings? | Juliet Mitchell, Rachel Bowlby,[199] Brett Kahr |
| April 15, 2004 | 'The Later Romantics' - the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley | Jonathan Bate, Robert Woof, Jennifer Wallace[200] |
| April 8, 2004 | 'The Fall' - how Adam and Eve affect us all | Martin Palmer, Griselda Pollock,[201] John Carey |
| April 1, 2004 | 'China: The Warring States Period' - the fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation | Dr Chris Cullen, Dr Vivienne Lo,[202] Carol Michaelson |
| March 25, 2004 | 'Theories of Everything' - still the holy grail of physics? | Brian Greene, John D. Barrow, Dr Val Gibson[203] |
| March 18, 2004 | '''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' | Charlotte Roueché,[204] David Womersley,[205] Richard Alston[206] |
| March 11, 2004 | 'The Norse Gods' - the great myths of pagan Europe | Dr Carolyne Larrington, Heather O'Donoghue,[207] John Hines |
| March 4, 2004 | 'Dreams' - is there a science of dreams? | Professor V S Ramachandran,[208] Mark Solms,[209] Martin Conway[210] |
| February 26, 2004 | 'The Mughal Empire' - the glory of India | Sanjay Subrahmanyam,[211] Susan Stronge,[212] Chandrika Kaul[213] |
| February 19, 2004 | 'Rutherford' - the father of nuclear physics | Simon Schaffer, Jim Al-Khalili, Patricia Fara |
| February 12, 2004 | 'The Sublime' - defining the state of awe | Janet Todd, Annie Janowitz,[214] Peter de Bolla[215] |
| February 5, 2004 | 'The Battle of Thermopylae' - battle that defined East and West | Tom Holland, Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall |
| January 29, 2004 | 'Cryptography' - secret history of ciphers and codes | Simon Singh, Professor Fred Piper,[216] Lisa Jardine |
| December 26, 2003 | 'Lamarck and Natural Selection' - the Lamarckian Heresy | Sandy Knapp,[217] Steve Jones, Simon Conway Morris |
| December 18, 2003 | 'The Alphabet' - its creation and development | Eleanor Robson, Alan Millard, Rosalind Thomas[218] |
| December 11, 2003 | 'The Devil' - a brief biography | Martin Palmer, Alison Rowlands, David Wootton |
| December 4, 2003 | 'Wittgenstein' - a philosophy of linguistics | Ray Monk, Barry Smith, Marie McGinn[219] |
| November 27, 2003 | 'St Bartholomew's Day Massacre' - slaughter in Paris. | Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass,[220] Penny Roberts |
| November 20, 2003 | 'Ageing the Earth' - a journey in geological time. | Richard Corfield, Hazel Rymer,[221] Henry Gee |
| November 13, 2003 | 'Duty' - concepts of obligation. | Angie Hobbs, Annabel Brett, A. C. Grayling |
| November 6, 2003 | 'Sensation' - the best sellers of the 19th century. | John Mullan, Lyn Pykett,[222] Dinah Birch |
| October 30, 2003 | 'Robin Hood' - the greatest of English myths. | Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn,[223] Dr Juliette Wood |
| October 23, 2003 | 'Infinity' - a brief history. | Ian Stewart, Robert Kaplan, Sarah Rees[224] |
| October 16, 2003 | 'The Schism' - between East and West in Christianity. | Henrietta Leyser, Norman Housley, Jonathan Shepard |
| October 9, 2003 | 'Bohemianism' - a life of art, freedom and poverty | Hermione Lee, Virginia Nicholson,[225] Graham Robb |
| October 2, 2003 | 'James Clerk Maxwell' - great 19th century physicist | Simon Schaffer, Peter Harman,[226] Joanna Haigh[227] |
2003-2002
| Broadcast date | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| July 17, 2003 | 'The Apocalypse' - was it a revelation? | Martin Palmer, Marina Benjamin,[228] Justin Champion |
| July 10, 2003 | 'Nature' - from Homer to Darwin | Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards[229] |
| July 3, 2003 | 'Vulcanology' - significance of volcanoes. | Hilary Downes,[230] Steve Self,[231] Bill McGuire |
| June 26, 2003 | 'The East India Co' - a corporate route to Empire. | Huw Bowen, Linda Colley, Maria Misra |
| June 19, 2003 | 'The Aristocracy' - how the ruling class survives | David Cannadine, Rosemary Sweet,[232] Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
| June 12, 2003 | 'The Art of War' - maintaining the objective? | Sir Michael Howard, Angie Hobbs, Jeremy Black |
| June 5, 2003 | 'The Lunar Society' - scientific ferment 200 years ago. | Simon Schaffer, Jenny Uglow,[233] Peter Jones[234] |
| May 29, 2003 | 'Memory' - and the brain | Martin Conway, Mike Kopelman,[235] Kim Graham[236] |
| May 22, 2003 | 'Blood' - its religious, medical and moral significance | Miri Rubin, Dr Anne Hardy, Jonathan Sawday |
| May 15, 2003 | 'The Holy Grail' - just a medieval myth? | Dr Carolyne Larrington, Jonathan Riley-Smith,[237] Dr Juliette Wood |
| May 8, 2003 | 'The Jacobite Rebellion' - could it have succeeded? | Murray Pittock, Stana Nenadic,[238] Allan Macinnes[239] |
| May 1, 2003 | 'Roman Britain' - the effects of 400 years of occupation | Greg Woolf, Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards |
| April 24, 2003 | 'Youth' - from Adonis to James Dean | Tim Whitmarsh,[240] Thomas Healy, Deborah Thom[241] |
| April 17, 2003 | 'Proust' - his life and work | Jacqueline Rose, Malcolm Bowie, Dr Robert Fraser[242] |
| April 3, 2003 | 'The Spanish Civil War' - causes and legacy | Paul Preston, Helen Graham,[243] Dr Mary Vincent[244] |
| March 27, 2003 | 'Supernovas' - the life cycle of stars | Paul Murdin, Janna Levin, Phil Charles[245] |
| March 20, 2003 | 'Originality' - is it just a romantic notion? | John Deathridge, Jonathan Rée, Professor Catherine Belsey[246] |
| March 13, 2003 | 'Redemption' - the concept of salvation | Richard Harries, Janet Soskice,[247] Stephen Mulhall[248] |
| March 6, 2003 | 'Meteorology' - why does it still fascinate us? | Vladimir Jankovic,[249] Richard Hamblyn,[250] Liba Taub[251] |
| February 27, 2003 | 'The Aztecs' - looking behind the myths | Alan Knight, Adrian Locke,[252] Elizabeth Graham[253] |
| February 20, 2003 | 'The Lindisfarne Gospels' - unifying Christianity in Britain | Dr Michelle Brown, Dr Richard Gameson, Professor Clare Lees[254] |
| February 13, 2003 | 'Chance and Design in Evolution' - Design in Nature | Simon Conway Morris, Sandy Knapp, John Hedley Brooke |
| February 6, 2003 | 'The Epic' - from Homer to Joyce | John Carey, Karen Edwards, Oliver Taplin |
| December 19, 2002 | 'The Calendar' - a history of the Calendar | Robert Poole,[255] Kristen Lippincott, Peter Watson |
| December 12, 2002 | 'Disease' - the fight against diseases and plagues | Dr Anne Hardy, David Bradley,[256] Dr Chris Dye |
| December 5, 2002 | 'The Scottish Enlightenment' - how enlightened? | Professor Tom Devine, Karen O'Brien,[257] Alexander Broadie |
| November 28, 2002 | 'Imagination' - just what is it? | Dr Susan Stuart,[258] Steven Mithen,[259] Semir Zeki |
| November 21, 2002 | 'Cordoba and Muslim Spain' - a culture of tolerance? | Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, Mehri Niknam[260] |
| November 14, 2002 | 'Victorian Realism' - how real? | Philip Maurice Davis,[261] A.N. Wilson, Dinah Birch |
| November 7, 2002 | 'Human Nature' - innate or nurtured? | Steven Pinker, Janet Radcliffe Richards, John N. Gray |
| October 31, 2002 | 'Architecture and Power' - imagery of imperialism | Adrian Tinniswood,[262] Gavin Stamp,[263] Gillian Darley[264] |
| October 24, 2002 | 'The Scientist in History' - missionary or monster? | John Gribbin, Patricia Fara, Hugh Pennington |
| October 17, 2002 | 'Slavery and Empire' - were Britons also captives? | Linda Colley, Catherine Hall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
2002
| Broadcast date | Title | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| July 18, 2002 | 'History of Heritage | David Cannadine, Miri Rubin, Peter Mandler |
| July 11, 2002 | 'Psychoanalysis' - do people crave dictatorship? | Adam Phillips, Sally Alexander,[265] Malcolm Bowie |
| July 4, 2002 | 'Freedom' - a principle worth fighting and dying for? | John Keane, Bernard Williams, Annabel Brett |
| June 27, 2002 | 'Cultural Imperialism' - should we try to prevent it? | Linda Colley, Phillip Dodd,[266] Mary Beard |
| June 20, 2002 | 'Richard Wagner' - his influence on the German spirit. | John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett,[267] Michael Tanner[268] |
| June 13, 2002 | 'The American West' - was it an "experiment of liberty"? | Frank Mclynn,[269] Jenni Calder, Christopher Frayling |
| June 6, 2002 | 'The Soul' - the key to our individuality as humans? | Richard Sorabji,[270] Ruth Padel, Martin Palmer |
| May 30, 2002 | 'The Grand Tour' - what drove this desire for travel? | Chloe Chard,[271] Jeremy Black, Edward Chaney[272] |
| May 23, 2002 | 'History of Drugs' - their role in medicine and the arts | Richard Davenport-Hines, Sadie Plant, Mike Jay[273] |
| May 16, 2002 | 'Chaos Theory' - ws the universe chaotic or orderly? | Susan Greenfield, David Papineau, Neil Johnson[274] |
| May 9, 2002 | 'The Examined Life' - is an unexamined life worth living? | Dr A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Julian Baggini |
| May 2, 2002 | 'Schrodinger's Cat' - Quantum Mechanics | Roger Penrose, Fay Dowker, Tony Sudbery[275] |
| April 25, 2002 | 'Tolstoy' - the influence of the Russian Novel | A. N. Wilson, Catriona Kelly, Sarah Hudspith[276] |
| April 11, 2002 | 'Bohemia' - what did it mean to be Bohemian? | Norman Davies, Karin Friedrich,[277] Robert Pynsent[278] |
| April 4, 2002 | 'ET' - new life within our solar system | Simon Goodwin,[279] Heather Couper, Ian Stewart |
| March 28, 2002 | 'The Artist' - a special kind of human being? | Emma Barker,[280] Thomas Healy, T. C. W. Blanning |
| March 21, 2002 | 'Marriage' - its various forms and the role of the State | Janet Soskice, Frederik Pedersen,[281] Christina Hardyment[282] |
| March 14, 2002 | 'Buddhism' - why has it captured the spirit of our age? | Peter Harvey,[283] Kate Crosby,[284] Mahinda Deagallee[285] |
| March 7, 2002 | 'John Milton' - poet or politician? | John Carey, Lisa Jardine, Blair Worden[286] |
| February 28, 2002 | 'Virtue' - is it derived from reason? | Galen Strawson, Miranda Fricker, Roger Crisp[287] |
| February 21, 2002 | 'The Celts' - what were the Celts in Britain really like? | Barry Cunliffe, Alistair Moffat,[288] Miranda Aldhouse Green[289] |
| February 14, 2002 | 'Anatomy' - 2000 years of anatomical study | Harold Ellis,[290] Ruth Richardson,[291] Andrew Cunningham[292] |
Contributors
1. Andy Martin, Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge
2. Mary Orr, Professor of French at the University of Southampton
3. Kathleen Burk, Professor of American History at University College London
4. Harry Bennett, Reader in History and Head of Humanities at the University of Plymouth
5. Tim Lockley, Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick
6. Richard Corfield, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences and Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research at the Open University, Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University
7. Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol
8. Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds
9. Melissa Lane, Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University
10. Alexander Broadie, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow, author of ''The Scottish Enlightenment - The Historical Age of the Historical Nation''
11. Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London
12. Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
13. Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde
14. Fran Brearton, Reader in English and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the University of Belfast
15. Anne Curry, Professor of Medieval History at Southampton University
16. Malcolm Vale, Fellow and Tutor in History at St John's College, Oxford
17. Matthew Bennett , Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
18. Carolin Crawford, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
19. Sheila Rowan, Professor in Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow
20. Dinah Birch, Professor of English at the University of Liverpool
21. Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
22. Sarah Hutton, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
23. John Cottingham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
24. Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
25. Edith Hall, Professor of Drama and Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, author of ''Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy'' (Clarendon Press, 1991)
26. Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London
27. Yangwen Zheng, Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Manchester
28. Lars Laamann, Research Fellow in Chinese History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
29. Xun Zhou, Research Fellow in History at SOAS, University of London
30. John Blair, Fellow in History at The Queen's College, Oxford
31. Rosemary Cramp, Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at Durham University
32. Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at Sheffield University
33. David Wilkinson, Consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and President of the History of Anaesthesia Society
34. Stephanie Snow, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester
35. Dr Anne Hardy, Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
36. Katharine Lerman, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University
37. Karen O'Brien, Professor in English at the University of Warwick
38. Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham
39. John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University and director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
40. Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Aberdeen University
41. Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London
42. Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science and Fellow of Linacre College at the University of Oxford
43. Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum
44. Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
45. Robert Hampson, Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London
46. Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
47. Peter Jackson, Professor of Medieval History at Keele University
48. Naomi Standen, Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University
49. George Lane, Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
50. Jackie Stedall, Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford
51. Serafina Cuomo, Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London
52. George Phillips, Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews University
53. Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester
54. Simon Ditchfield, Reader in History at the University of York
55. Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford
56. Efraín Kristal, Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles
57. Evelyn Fishburn, Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London
58. Roger Crowley, author and historian
59. Judith Herrin, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London
60. Colin Imber, formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University
61. Margaret Kean, Tutor and Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
62. George Gheverghese Joseph, Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University
63. Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews
64. Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University
65. Iwan Morus, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
66. Miranda Fricker, Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
67. Caroline Barron, Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London
68. Alastair Dunn, author of ''The Peasants' Revolt - England's Failed Revolution of 1381''
69. Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University
70. Valerie Rumbold, Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University
71. June Barrow-Green, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University
72. Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
73. Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford
74. David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York
75. Dr Chris Cullen, Director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University
76. Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS), University of London
77. Frances Wood, Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library
78. David Bagchi, Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull
79. Reverend Dr Charlotte Methuen, Lecturer in Reformation History at the University of Oxford
80. Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
81. Peter Adamson, Reader in Philosophy at King's College London
82. Jason Wilson, Professor of Latin American Literature at University College London
83. Patricia Fara, Affiliated Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare College and author of ''Newton: the Making of Genius''
84. Jim Secord, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project
85. Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham
86. John Edwards, Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
87. Alexander Murray, Medieval historian and Emeritus Fellow in History at University College, Oxford
88. Michael Alpert, Emeritus Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Spain at the University of Westminster
89. Ken Teo, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University
90. Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier, Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham
91. Dr Sarah Meer, Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
92. Dr Clive Webb, Reader in American History at the University of Sussex
93. Fay Bound Alberti, Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester
94. Ruth Tatlow, Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm
95. Dr Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff and Secretary of the Folklore Society
96. Diane Purkiss, Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford
97. Nicola Bown, Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
98. Kristen Lippincott, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
99. Hermione Hobhouse, Architectural Historian and Writer
100. Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah
101. Dr Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology
102. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
103. Sheridan Gilley, Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham
104. Frances Knight, Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Lampeter
105. Simon Skinner, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford
106. Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh
107. W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London
108. Matthew Innes, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
109. Julia Smith, Edwards Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow University
110. Mary Garrison, Lecturer in History at the University of York
111. Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster
112. Barry Ife, Cervantes Professor Emeritus at King's College London
113. Jane Whetnall, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
114. Raymond Flood, Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at Kellogg College, Oxford
115. Mark Vernon, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University
116. Janet Hartley, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics
117. Simon Dixon, Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds
118. Tony Lentin, Professor of History at the Open University
119. Fred Spoor, Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London
120. Margaret Clegg, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London
121. Dr Carolyne Larrington, Tutor in Medieval English at St John's College, Oxford
122. Ardis Butterfield, Reader in English at University College London
123. Kevin Sharpe, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
124. Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele
125. Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia
126. Barry Smith, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
127. Kathleen Lennon, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull
128. Alan Sommerstein, Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham
129. Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London
130. Valery Rees, Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science, a translator of Ficino's letters
131. Sarah Richardson, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
132. Jon Agar, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
133. Alison Adam, Professor of Information Systems at Salford University
134. Annabel Brett, Fellow of Gonville and Caius and Senior Lecturer in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, editor with Quentin Skinner of ''Liberty, Right and Nature'' (Cambridge University Press).
135. Henrietta Leyser, Medieval Historian and Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford
136. Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
137. John Moles, Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle
138. Steven Gunn, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University
139. Penny Roberts, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
140. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty of Oxford University
141. Emma Smith, Lecturer in English at Oxford University
142. Simon Kelley, Head of Department in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
143. Charles Hope, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London
144. Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and author of ''Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500''
145. Marcus Walsh, Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool
146. Robert Kaplan, Co-founder of ''The Math Circle'' at Harvard University, author of ''The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero'' (Oxford University Press, 2001) and co-author of ''The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers'' (Allen Lane, 2003)
147. Mike Broers, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
148. Rebecca Spang, Lecturer in Modern History at University College London
149. Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
150. Michael Clanchy, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research
151. David Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham
152. Gemma Calvert, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath
153. Philip Hardie, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford
154. Catharine Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London
155. Tim Champion, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
156. Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum
157. Dr Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at Kent University and he is also editor of ''St Augustine and the Conversion of England'' (Sutton Publishing, 1999)
158. Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield
159. John Hines, Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University
160. Keith Hanley, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University
161. Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge
162. John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews
163. Steve Connor, Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London
164. Laura Marcus, Professor of English at the University of Sussex
165. David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
166. Sue James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
167. Dominic Lieven, Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics
168. Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at Oxford University
169. Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University
170. Catherine Steel, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.
171. Osman Durrani, Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury
172. Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
173. Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and a practising Freudian
174. Dr Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and author of ''A Guide to Western Historical Scripts: From Antiquity to 1600'' (British Library Publishing, 1990)
175. David Wark, Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
176. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum
177. Farrokh Vajifdar, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a life-long student of Zoroastrianism
178. Alan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester
179. Ceri Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor
180. Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex
181. Malcolm Gaskill, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge
182. Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum
183. Roel Sterckx, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge
184. Benedict O'Donohoe, Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies
185. Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College
186. Amanda Vickery, Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of ''The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England'' (Yale Nota Bene, 2003)
187. Linda Partridge, Biology and Biotechnology Research Council Professor at University College London
188. John Watts, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christie College, Oxford
189. Carol Berkin, Professor of History at The City University of New York and author of ''A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution'' (Harcourt, 2002)
190. Simon Middleton, Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia
191. Colin Bonwick, Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University
192. Murray Pittock, Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature at the University of Manchester
193. Irving Finkel, Curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the British Museum
194. Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
195. Hugh R. A. Jones, Planet hunter and Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University
196. Sarah Barber, Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
197. Huw Bowen, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester
198. James Walvin, Professor of History at the University of York and author of ''Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800'' (Macmillan, 1997)
199. Rachel Bowlby, Professor of English at the University of York who has written the introduction to the new Penguin translation of Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer's ''Studies in Hysteria'' (Penguin, 2004)
200. Jennifer Wallace, Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge
201. Griselda Pollock, Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds
202. Dr Vivienne Lo, Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
203. Dr Val Gibson, Particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
204. Charlotte Roueché, historian of late antiquity at Kings College London
205. David Womersley, Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford and editor of Edward Gibbon's ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' (Penguin, 2000)
206. Richard Alston, Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
207. Heather O'Donoghue, Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University
208. Professor V S Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego
209. Mark Solms, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town
210. Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham
211. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford
212. Susan Stronge, Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
213. Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews
214. Annie Janowitz, Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London
215. Peter de Bolla, Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge
216. Professor Fred Piper, Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and co-author of ''Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction'' (co-written with Sean Murphy, Oxford Paperbacks, 2002)
217. Sandy Knapp, Senior Botanist at the Natural History Museum
218. Rosalind Thomas, Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London
219. Marie McGinn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York
220. Mark Greengrass, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield
221. Hazel Rymer, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
222. Lyn Pykett, Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
223. Thomas Hahn, Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York
224. Sarah Rees, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle
225. Virginia Nicholson, author of ''Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939'' (Viking, 2002. Paperback will be published by Penguin, November 2003)
226. Peter Harman, Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and editor of ''The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell'' (3 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 1995, 2002)
227. Joanna Haigh, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London
228. Marina Benjamin, journalist and author of ''Living at the End of the World'' (Picador, 1999)
229. Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter
230. Hilary Downes, Professor of Geochemistry at Birkbeck, University of London
231. Steve Self, Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University
232. Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester
233. Jenny Uglow, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick and author of ''The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future'' (Faber and Faber, 2002)
234. Peter Jones, Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham
235. Mike Kopelman, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas' Hospital
236. Kim Graham, Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
237. Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University
238. Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University
239. Allan Macinnes, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University
240. Tim Whitmarsh, Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at Exeter University
241. Deborah Thom, Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge
242. Dr Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of ''Proust and the Victorians'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994)
243. Helen Graham, Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London
244. Dr Mary Vincent, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University
245. Phil Charles, Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University
246. Professor Catherine Belsey, Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University
247. Janet Soskice, Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University
248. Stephen Mulhall, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University
249. Vladimir Jankovic, Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University and author of ''Reading the Skies'' (Manchester University Press, 2001)
250. Richard Hamblyn, writer and author of ''The Invention of Clouds'' (Picador, 2002)
251. Liba Taub, Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge University and author of a new book called ''Ancient Meteorology'' (Routledge)
252. Adrian Locke, co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts
253. Elizabeth Graham, Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London
254. Professor Clare Lees, Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London and author of ''Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
255. Robert Poole, Reader in History at St Martin's College Lancaster and author of ''Time's Alteration, Calendar Reform in Early Modern England''
256. David Bradley, Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
257. Karen O'Brien, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick
258. Dr Susan Stuart, Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Glasgow.
259. Steven Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading.
260. Mehri Niknam, Executive Director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London.
261. Philip Maurice Davis, Reader in English Literature at the University of Liverpool and author of ''The Victorians'', a volume of the ''New Oxford English Literary History'' (Oxford University Press 2002)
262. Adrian Tinniswood, Architectural historian and author of ''Visions of Power and His Invention So Fertile - a Life of Christopher Wren'', (Pimlico, ISBN 0712673644)
263. Gavin Stamp, Senior Lecturer, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
264. Gillian Darley, Architectural historian and biographer of ''John Soane, An Accidental Romantic'' (Yale University Press; ISBN 0300086954)
265. Sally Alexander, Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
266. Phillip Dodd, Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts
267. Lucy Beckett, Author of ''Richard Wagner: Parsifal''
268. Michael Tanner, Philosopher and author of ''Wagner and Nietzsche''
269. Frank Mclynn, Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Strathclyde, author of a new book ''Wagon's West - The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails''
270. Richard Sorabji, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College
271. Chloe Chard, Literary historian and author of Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour
272. Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Institute and author of ''A Traveller's Companion to Florence''
273. Mike Jay, Historian and author of ''Emperors of Dreams, Drugs in the Nineteenth Century'', Dedalus Ltd
274. Neil Johnson, University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University
275. Tony Sudbery, Professor of Mathematics, University of York
276. Sarah Hudspith, Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds
277. Karin Friedrich, Lecturer in History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, author of ''The Other Prussia''
278. Robert Pynsent, Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature, University College London, author of ''Decadence and Innovation: Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century''
279. Simon Goodwin, Researcher in Astronomy, Cardiff University, co-author of ''XTL: Extraterrestrial life and how to find it''
280. Emma Barker, Lecturer in Art History at The Open University
281. Frederik Pedersen, Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University
282. Christina Hardyment, Social historian and journalist
283. Peter Harvey, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland
284. Kate Crosby, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS)
285. Mahinda Deagallee, Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.
286. Blair Worden, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sussex and author of ''Roundhead Reputations - The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity''
287. Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford.
288. Alistair Moffat, Writer and Historian and author of ''The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland''
289. Miranda Aldhouse Green, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales and author of ''Dying for the Gods''
290. Harold Ellis, Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London
291. Ruth Richardson, Historian, and author of ''Death, Dissection and the Destitute'', Phoenix Press
292. Andrew Cunningham, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
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