
In Our Time
Author: BBC Radio 4
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Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.
History fans can learn about pivotal wars and societal upheavals, such as the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Sack of Rome in 1527, and the political intrigue of the Russian Revolution. Those fascinated by the lives of kings and queens can journey to Versailles to meet Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV the Sun King, or to Ancient Egypt to meet Cleopatra and Nerfertiti. Or perhaps you’re looking to explore the history of religion, from Buddhism’s early teachings to the Protestant Reformation.
If you’re interested in the stories behind iconic works of art, music and literature, dive in to discussions on the artistic genius of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers. From Gothic architecture to the works of Shakespeare, each episode of In Our Time offers new insight into humanity’s cultural achievements.
Those looking to enrich their scientific knowledge can hear episodes on black holes, the Periodic Table, and classical theories of gravity, motion, evolution and relativity. Learn how the discovery of penicillin revolutionised medicine, and how the death of stars can lead to the formation of new planets.
Lovers of philosophy will find episodes on the big issues that define existence, from free will and ethics, to liberty and justice. In what ways did celebrated philosophers such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Karl Marx push forward radical new ideas? How has the concept of karma evolved from the ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism to today? What was Plato’s concept of an ideal republic, and how did he explore this through the legend of the lost city of Atlantis?
In Our Time celebrates the pursuit of knowledge and the enduring power of ideas.
Anything that can increase your awareness and of the world is of a value otherwise nothing is of any value !!!
nauseating lefty idiot
Thats wonderful!! love the stories about the history and culture of Iran.
As an iranian ,never have looked at Ganjavi's work of Art from this angle..amazing, thank you for your amazing podcast.❤️
I love these podcasts. The only thing that lets them down is the volume differences of the contributor voices - some are loud, others one can barely hear, so one has to keep adjusting the volume. This is odd given the BBC's normally high technical standards.
At the end of the Symposium Plato tries to convince the comic poet Aristophanes and the tragic poet Agathon that someone should be able to write both comedy and tragedy. This is what Plato has done. The Symposium is like a theater production. The comedy is the friendly jesting among the characters in between the speeches. The event takes place in 416 BC. In 415 BC, after the disastrous Sicilian Expedition, most of these men will face ruin and disaster. And in 399 BC Athens will execute Socrates.
Another word for the concept of the soul in Plato is the mind. And Plato's famous theory of forms, one of which is beauty, are not external heavenly things but rather internal and fundamental ideas in the human mind. We are born with these concepts. Humans obviously have a built-in set of ideas that allow us to relate to each other in society as well as one on one in a loving relationship. And not just abstract ideas like beauty and justice but also ground rules for acceptable behavior.
I love the accent it's perfect I enjoy every second of this priceless Podcast... fascinating😉
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The same corruption of Christ and his teachings that is present in the political organization of the Catholic Church which Marsilius describes in the 13th Century is manifest in the base and corrupt American Evangelical movement. The Catholic Church is in effect a corporation concerned with amassing wealth for the benefit of the clergy not the benefit of the faithful. In America this group should better be called the evangenitals, a group obsessed with other people's genitals and male dominance.
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American academics are completely insufferable.
It's Shahnameh, not Shahmaneh
Discrimination/Discernment is good for life !!!!
Wonderful episode!
Considering the Old Testament is one if the only sources we have had on the subject, and makes significant mention of the Hittites, I had hoped to get more discussion on Biblical documentation and its relationship to modern archeological evidence. The modern academic aversion to the Bible is counter productive.
the greatest explosion of human thought thus far in human history.
A rarely awful discussion for IoT. Very disappointing.
Couldn't have chosen a worse male scholar for the topic, but that was the intention, wasn't it?
I had hoped to learn something about the meaning of Zen. The scholars participating in the discussion cannot seem to answer this basic question. They do discuss some practices used in Zen, in particular the method of sitting still, but to what end? Was this a missed opportunity or is there no there there?