In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
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In Our Time is a discussion programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in Great Britain. It is currently broadcast on Thursday mornings and evenings at 9am and 9.30pm.
The programme covers many different subjects including history, philosophy, the arts or science, and is organised as a round-table discussion with a number of subject experts. Each "season" of the programme lasts for six weeks and there are approximately three seasons per year.
Each edition of the programme is available as streaming audio through the BBC's Listen Again service, or for download from the BBC website as an mp3 file, during the week of transmission. Editions of the programme can also be downloaded as a podcast.
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[edit] List of programmes
[edit] 2006
Indian Maths - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number
- George Gheverghese Joseph, Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University
- Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews
- Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University
Anarchism - a question of authority?
- John Keane, Professor of Politics at Westminster University
- Ruth Kinna, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University
- Peter Marshall, philosopher and historian
The Speed of Light - a cosmic speed limit?
- John Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University
- Iwan Morus, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University
Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it?
- Miranda Fricker, Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
- Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University
- John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University and director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
- Miri Rubin, Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London
- Caroline Barron, Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Alastair Dunn, author of The Peasants’ Revolt - England’s Failed Revolution of 1381
- John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London
- Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University
- Valerie Rumbold, Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University
- June Barrow-Green, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick
- Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
The Encyclopedie - the great project of the Enlightenment
- Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford
- David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York
- Chris Cullen, Director of the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge
- Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at SOAS
- Frances Wood, Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library
The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University
- David Bagchi, Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull
- Charlotte Methuen, Lecturer in Reformation History at the University of Oxford
Averroes - the battle between faith and reason
- Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
- Peter Adamson, Reader in Philosophy at King's College London
- Sir Anthony Kenny, philosopher and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Alexander von Humboldt - the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist
- Jason Wilson, Professor of Latin American Literature at University College London
- Patricia Fara, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Jim Secord, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project
Greek Comedy - sing as you revel and rout
- Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at the University of Cambridge
- Edith Hall, Professor of Drama and Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
Pastoral Literature - the romantic idealisation of the countryside
- Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge
- Laurence Lerner, former Professor of English at the University of Sussex
- Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham
Galaxies - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars, and dark matter
- John Gribbin, Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex
- Carolin Crawford, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge
- Robert Kennicutt, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
The Spanish Inquisition - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history
- John Edwards, Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
- Alexander Murray, Emeritus Fellow in History at University College, Oxford
- Michael Alpert, Emeritus Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Spain at the University of Westminster
- Harry Kroto, Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University
- Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University
- Ken Teo, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University
- Celeste-Marie Bernier, Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham
- Sarah Meer, Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
- Clive Webb, Reader in American History at the University of Sussex
The Heart - its anatomical and cultural history
- David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York
- Fay Bound Alberti, Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester
- Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde
Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition
- Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
- Robin Wilson, Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University
- Ruth Tatlow, Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm
John Stuart Mill - one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century
- Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
- Janet Radcliffe Richards, Reader in Bioethics at University College London
- Alan Ryan, Professor of Politics at Oxford University
Faeries - supernatural creatures that are neither gods nor humans
- Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at Cardiff University and Secretary of the Folklore Society
- Diane Purkiss, Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford
- Nicola Bown, Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
Astronomy and Empire - the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery
- Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Kristen Lippincott, former Director of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
- Allan Chapman, Historian of Science at the History Faculty at Oxford University
The Great Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world
- Jeremy Black, Professor of History at the University of Exeter
- Hermione Hobhouse, Architectural Historian and Writer
- Clive Emsley, Professor of History at the Open University
The Search for Immunisation - and the battle against smallpox
- Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah
- Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology
- Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
The Oxford Movement - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century
- Sheridan Gilley, Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham
- Frances Knight, Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Lampeter
- Simon Skinner, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford
Goethe - formation of a German cultural icon
- Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge
- Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh
- W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London
The Carolingian Renaissance - the revival of early medieval Western Europe
- Matthew Innes, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
- Julia Smith, Edwards Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow University
- Mary Garrison, Lecturer in History at the University of York
The Royal Society - the first club for experimental science
- Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster
- Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
- Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel
- Barry Ife, Cervantes Professor Emeritus at King's College London
- Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford
- Jane Whetnall, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Negative numbers - how they spread across civilizations
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick
- Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews
- Raymond Flood, Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at Kellogg College, Oxford
Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Mark Vernon, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University
- John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London
Catherine the Great - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia
- Janet Hartley, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics
- Simon Dixon, Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds
- Tony Lentin, Professor of History at the Open University
Human Evolution - from early hominids to Homo sapiens
- Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics in the Galton Laboratory at University College London
- Fred Spoor, Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London
- Margaret Clegg, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London
Geoffrey Chaucer - the first Great English Poet
- Carolyne Larrington, Tutor in Medieval English at St John's College, Oxford
- Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge
- Ardis Butterfield, Reader in English at University College London
The Abbasid Caliphs - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world
- Hugh N. Kennedy, Professor of History at the University of St Andrews
- Robert Graham Irwin, Senior Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
Seventeenth Century Print Culture - piety, populism and political protest
- Kevin Sharpe, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
- Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele
- Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia
Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
- Barry Smith, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Jonathan Rée, freelance philosopher who holds visiting professorships at the Royal College of Art and Roehampton University
- Kathleen Lennon, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull
Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics
- Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and Fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford
- Robin Wilson, Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University and Gresham Professor of Geometry
- Jackie Stedall, Junior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford
The Oath - guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world
- Alan Sommerstein, Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham
- Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at the University of Cambridge
- Mary Beard, Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge
[edit] 2005
Aeschylus' Oresteia - the birth of tragedy
- Edith Hall, Professor of Greek Cultural History at Durham University
- Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge
- Tom Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London
Heaven - a journey through the afterlife
- Valery Rees, Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science
- Martin Palmer, Theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture
- John Carey, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University
The Peterloo Massacre - democratic protest and brutal repression
- Jeremy Black, Professor of History at the University of Exeter
- Sarah Richardson, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
- Clive Emsley, Professor of History at the Open University
Artificial Intelligence - the quest for a machine that can think
- Jon Agar, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Alison Adam, Professor of Information Systems at Salford University
- Igor Aleksander, Professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College, University of London
Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'
- Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge
- David Wootton, Professor of History at the University of York
- Annabel Brett, Senior Lecturer in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge University
The Graviton - the quest for the theoretical gravity particle
- Roger Cashmore, Former Research Director at CERN and Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey
- Sheila Rowan, Reader in Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow
Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
- Anthony Grayling, Professor of Applied Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford
- Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' Magazine
- Miranda Fricker, Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
Greyfriars and Blackfriars - philosophy, evangelism and fund-raising in the 13th century Church
- Henrietta Leyser, medieval historian and Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford
- Alexander Murray, medieval historian and Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford
- Anthony Kenny, philosopher and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Asteroids - celestial bodies from the beginning of time
- Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University
- Carolin Crawford, Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
- John Zarnecki, Professor of Space Science at the Open University
Samuel Johnson and His Circle - life with the professional man of letters
- John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London
- Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University
- Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
- John Moles, Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle
The Rise of the Mammals - life in a cold climate
- Richard Corfield, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Open University
- Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London
- Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds
Field of the Cloth of Gold - a Renaissance entente cordiale
- Steven Gunn, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University
- John Guy, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge
- Penny Roberts, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
Magnetism - an attractive history
- Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster
- John Heilbron, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley
- Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
- Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Francis Wheen, journalist and author of a biography of Karl Marx
- Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of Political Science at Cambridge University
Christopher Marlowe - poet, spy, atheist, murder victim?
- Katherine Duncan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty of Oxford University
- Jonathan Bate, Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick
- Emma J. Smith, Lecturer in English at Oxford University
Merlin - the original Welsh wizard
- Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at Cardiff University
- Stephen Knight, Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University
- Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London
The KT Boundary - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away?
- Simon Kelley, Head of Department in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
- Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds
- Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol
Paganism in the Renaissance - how the classical gods returned to the Christian cities
- Tom Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Charles Hope, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London
- Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
The Scriblerus Club - the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century
- John Mullan, Senior Lecturer in English at University College London
- Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Marcus Walsh, Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool
Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics?
- Robert Kaplan, co-founder of the Maths Circle at Harvard University
- Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of Science and Fellow of Linacre College at the University of Oxford
- Jackie Stedall, Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford
The Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France
- Mike Broers, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
- Rebecca Spang, Lecturer in Modern History at University College London
- Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge
Beauty - the philosophy of beauty
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Julian Baggini, Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine
Abelard and Heloise - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris
- Anthony Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London
- Henrietta Leyser, Medieval Historian and Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford
- Michael Clanchy, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research
Perception and the Senses - how do we see what we see?
- Richard Gregory, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Bristol University
- David Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham
- Gemma Calvert, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath
The Aeneid - the Roman history of the world
- Edith Hall, Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at Durham University
- Philip Hardie, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford
- Catharine Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London
Archaeology and Imperialism - conquest of the past
- Tim Champion, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
- Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum
- Eleanor Robson, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Alfred and the Battle of Edington - without Alfred, no England?
- Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at the University of Kent at Canterbury
- Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield
- John Hines, Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University
John Ruskin - a different kind of Victorian
- Dinah Birch, Professor of English at Liverpool University
- Keith Hanley, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University
- Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge
Angels - how they got their wings
- Martin Palmer, theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture
- Valery Rees, Renaissance Scholar from the School of Economic Science
- John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews
Dark Energy - the unknown force breaking the universe apart
- Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Cambridge University
- Carolin Crawford, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
- Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Maths at Oxford University
Modernist Utopias - the original 21st century
- John Carey, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and editor of The Faber Book of Utopias
- Steve Connor, Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London
- Laura Marcus, Professor of English at the University of Sussex
Stoicism - the search for inner calm
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Jonathan Rée, philosopher and historian
- David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
Alchemy - seeking the perfection of all things
- Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London
- Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster
The Cambrian Explosion - the big bang of evolutionary history
- Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University
- Richard Corfield, Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research at the Open University
- Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds
The Mind/Body Problem - does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind?
- Anthony Grayling, Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
- Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' Magazine
- Sue James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II - did his killing cause the Russian Revolution?
- Orlando Figes, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Dominic Lieven, Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics
- Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at Oxford University
[edit] 2004
The Roman Republic - what were Rome's republican ideals?
- Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University.
- Catherine Steel, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.
- Tom Holland, historian
Faust - the original pact with the Devil
- Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff and Secretary of the Folklore Society
- Osman Durrani, Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury
- Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
The Second Law of Thermodynamics - the most important thing you will ever know
- John Gribbin, Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex
- Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University
- Monica Grady, Head of Petrology and Meteoritics at the Natural History Museum
Machiavelli and the Italian City States - high politics and low cunning in the Italian Renaissance
- Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge
- Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
- Lisa Jardine, Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London
Carl Gustav Jung - Discovering the Self
- Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and a practising Freudian
- Ronald Hayman, writer and biographer of Jung
- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex and a Jungian analyst in clinical practice
The Venerable Bede - the father of English history
- Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at the University of Kent at Canterbury
- Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield
- Michelle Brown, a manuscript specialist from the British Library
Higgs Boson - the search for the God particle
- Jim Al-Khalili, Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Surrey
- David Wark, Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Roger Cashmore, former Research Director at CERN and now Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
Zoroastrianism - was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism?
- Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum
- Farrokh Vajifdar, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a life-long student of Zoroastrianism
- Alan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester
Electrickery - the origins of electricity
- Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Darwin College
- Patricia Fara, historian of science and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
- Iwan Morus, Lecturer in the History of Science at Queen's University Belfast
Rhetoric - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Ceri Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor
Witchcraft - Reformation Europe turned upon itself
- Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex
- Lyndal Roper, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford and
- Malcolm Gaskill, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge
The Han Synthesis - creating the Chinese cosmos
- Christopher Cullen, Director of the Needham Research Institute
- Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Asia at the British Museum
- Roel Sterckx, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge
Jean-Paul Sartre - a man condemned to be free
- Jonathan Rée, philosopher and historian
- Benedict O'Donohoe, Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies
- Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College
Politeness - the great 18th century craze
- Amanda Vickery, Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London
- David Wootton, Professor of History at the University of York
- John Mullan, Senior Lecturer in English at University College London
The Origins of Life - how it all began
- Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University
- Richard Corfield, Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research at the Open University
- Linda Partridge, Biology and Biotechnology Research Council Professor at University College London
Agincourt - the real facts behind the battle.
- Anne Curry, Professor of Medieval History at Southampton University
- Michael Jones, medieval historian and writer
- John Watts, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
The Odyssey - Homer's epic tale of Odysseus' return home
- Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek at King's College, Cambridge
- Edith Hall, Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at Durham University
- Oliver Taplin, Classics Scholar and Translator at Oxford University
Pi - the number that doesn't add up
- Robert Kaplan, co-founder of the Maths Circle at Harvard University
- Eleanor Robson, Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick
George Washington and the American Revolution - the most significant event in history
- Carol Berkin, Professor of History at The City University of New York
- Simon Middleton, Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia
- Colin Bonwick, Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University
Renaissance Magic - the great passion of the age
- Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London
- Valery Rees, Renaissance historian and a translator of Ficino’s letters
- Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde
Empiricism - the English philosophy?
- Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Murray Pittock, Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature at the University of Manchester
- Jonathan Rée, philosopher
Babylon - the great forgotten civilisation
- Eleanor Robson, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University
- Irving Finkel, Curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the British Museum
- Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Planets - the astronomy of the 21st century
- Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge
- Hugh Jones, planet hunter and Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University
- Carolin Crawford, Royal Society Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge
Toleration - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom
- Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London
- David Wootton, Professor of Intellectual History at Queen Mary, University of London
- Sarah Barber, Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
Zero - everything about nothing
- Robert Kaplan, co-founder of the Maths Circle at Harvard University
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick
- Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Heroism - do we live in an heroic age?
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Anthony Grayling, Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
- Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at the University of Cambridge
- Huw Bowen, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester
- James Walvin, Professor of History at the University of York
- Amanda Vickery, Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London
Hysteria - the normal state of human beings?
- Juliet Mitchell, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge
- Rachel Bowlby, Professor of English at the University of York
- Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London
The Later Romantics - the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley
- Jonathan Bate, Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick
- Robert Woof, Director of the Wordsworth Trust
- Jennifer Wallace, Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge
The Fall - how Adam and Eve affect us all
- Martin Palmer, theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture
- Griselda Pollock, Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds
- John Carey, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University
China: The Warring States Period - the fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation
- Chris Cullen, Director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University
- Vivienne Lo, Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
- Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum
Theories of Everything - still the holy grail of physics?
- Brian Greene, Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University
- John D. Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge
- Val Gibson, particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Charlotte Roueché, historian of late antiquity at Kings College London
- 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)
- Richard Alston, Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
The Norse Gods - the great myths of pagan Europe
- Carolyne Larrington, Tutor in Medieval English at St John’s College, Oxford
- Heather O'Donoghue, Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University
- John Hines, Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University
Dreams - is there a science of dreams?
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego
- Mark Solms, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town
- Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham
The Mughal Empire - the glory of India
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford
- Susan Stronge, Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews
Rutherford - the father of nuclear physics
- Simon Schaffer, Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Jim Al–Khalili, Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Surrey
- Patricia Fara, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
The Sublime - defining the state of awe
- Janet Todd, Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow
- Annie Janowitz, Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London
- Peter de Bolla, Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge
The Battle of Thermopylae - battle that defined East & West
- Tom Holland, historian
- Simon Goldhill, Professor in Greek Literature and Culture at King’s College, Cambridge
- Edith Hall, Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham
Cryptography - secret history of ciphers and codes
- Simon Singh, science writer
- Fred Piper, Director of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
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Lamarck and Natural Selection - the Lamarckian Heresy
- Sandy Knapp, Senior Botanist at the Natural History Museum
- Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics in the Galton Laboratory at University College London
- Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University
The Alphabet - its creation and development
- Eleanor Robson, historian of Ancient Iraq and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
- Alan Millard, Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool
- Rosalind Thomas, Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Martin Palmer, theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture
- Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex
- David Wootton, Professor of Intellectual History at Queen Mary, University of London
Wittgenstein - a philosophy of linguistics
- Ray Monk, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton
- Barry Smith, Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
- Marie McGinn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York
St Bartholomew's Day Massacre - slaughter in Paris.
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University
- Mark Greengrass, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield
- Penny Roberts, Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
Ageing the Earth - a journey in geological time.
- Richard Corfield, Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University
- Hazel Rymer, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
- Henry Gee, Senior Editor at Nature
Duty - concepts of obligation.
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Annabel Brett, Fellow of Gonville and Caius and Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge
- Anthony Grayling, Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
Sensation- the best sellers of the 19th century.
- John Mullan, Senior Lecturer in English at University College London
- Lyn Pykett, Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Dinah Birch, Professor of English at the University of Liverpool
Robin Hood - the greatest of English myths.
- Stephen Knight, Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University
- Thomas Hahn, Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York
- Juliette Wood, Secretary of the Folklore Society
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick
- Robert Kaplan, co-founder of The Math Circle at Harvard University
- Sarah Rees, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle
The Schism - between East and West in Christianity.
- Henrietta Leyser, medieval historian and Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford
- Norman Housley, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leicester
- Jonathan Shepard, co-editor of Byzantine Diplomacy
Bohemianism - a life of art, freedom & poverty
- Hermione Lee, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford
- Virginia Nicholson, author
- Graham Robb, writer and biographer of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud
James Clerk Maxwell - great 19th century physicist
- Simon Schaffer, Reader in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Peter Harman, Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and editor of The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
- Joanna Haigh, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London
The Apocalypse - was it a revelation?
- Martin Palmer, theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture
- Marina Benjamin, journalist and author of Living at the End of the World (Picador, 1999)
- Justin Champion, Reader in the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway College, University of London
- Jonathan Bate, Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick
- Roger Scruton, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham
- Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter
Vulcanology - significance of volcanoes.
- Hilary Downes, Professor of Geochemistry at Birkbeck, University of London
- Steve Self, Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University
- Bill McGuire, Benfield Professor of Geophysical Hazards at University College London
The East India Co - a corporate route to Empire.
- Huw Bowen, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester
- Linda Colley, School Professor of History at the London School of Economics
- Maria Misra, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford
The Aristocracy - how the ruling class survives
- David Cannadine, Director of the University of London’s Institute of Historical Research
- Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Professorial Research Fellow At Queen Mary, University of London
The Art of War - maintaining the objective?
- Sir Michael Howard, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford
- Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick
- Jeremy Black, Professor of History at the University of Exeter
The Lunar Society - scientific ferment 200 years ago.
- Simon Schaffer, Reader in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
- Jenny Uglow, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick
- Peter Jones, Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham
- Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at Durham University
- Mike Kopelman, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas’ Hospital
- Kim Graham, Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Blood - its religious, medical and moral significance
- Miri Rubin, Professor of European History at Queen Mary, University of London
- Anne Hardy, Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
- Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde
The Holy Grail- just a medieval myth?
- Carolyne Larrington, Tutor in Medieval English at St John’s College, Oxford
- Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University
- Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff
The Jacobite Rebellion - could it have succeeded?
- Murray Pittock, Professor of English Literature at the University of Strathclyde
- Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University
- Allan Macinnes, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University
Roman Britain - the effects of 400 years of occupation
- Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University
- Mary Beard, Reader in Classics at Cambridge University
- Catharine Edwards, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, London University
Youth - from Adonis to James Dean
- Tim Whitmarsh, Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at Exeter University
- Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, London
- Deborah Thom, Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge
- Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London
- Malcolm Bowie, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge
- Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University
The Spanish Civil War - causes and legacy
- Paul Preston, Principe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish History at the London School of Economics
- Helen Graham, Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Mary Vincent, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University
Supernovas - the life cycle of stars
- Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- Janna Levin, Advanced Fellow in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge
- Phil Charles, Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University
Originality - is it just a romantic notion?
- John Deathridge, King Edward Professor of Music at King’s College London
- Jonathan Rée, philosopher
- Catherine Belsey, Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University
Redemption - the concept of salvation
- Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford
- Janet Soskice, Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University
- Stephen Mulhall, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University
Meteorology - why does it still fascinate us?
- Vladimir Jankovic, Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Manchester University
- Richard Hamblyn, writer and author of The Invention of Clouds (Picador, 2002)
- Liba Taub, Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at Cambridge University
The Aztecs - looking behind the myths
- Alan Knight, Professor of the History of Latin America at Oxford University
- Adrian Locke, co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts
- Elizabeth Graham, Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London
The Lindisfarne Gospels - unifying Christianity in Britain
- Michelle Brown, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library
- Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at Kent University
- Clare Lees, Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London
Chance and Design in Evolution - Design in Nature
- Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University
- Sandy Knapp, botanist at the Natural History Museum
- John Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University.
The Epic - from Homer to Joyce
- John Carey, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University
- Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at Exeter University
- Oliver Taplin, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford
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The Calendar - a history of the Calendar in all its forms
- Robert Poole, Reader in History at St Martin’s College Lancaster
- Kristen Lippincott, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
- Peter Watson, Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University
Disease - the fight against diseases and plagues
- Anne Hardy, Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre at University College London
- David Bradley, Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Chris Dye, epidemiologist with the World Health Organisation
The Scottish Enlightenment - how enlightened?
- Tom Devine, Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen
- Karen O'Brien, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick
- Alexander Broadie, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow
Imagination - just what is it?
- Susan Stuart, Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Glasgow.
- Steven Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading.
- Semir Zeki, Professor of Neurobiology at the University of London
Cordoba and Muslim Spain - a culture of tolerance?
- Tim Winter, a convert to Islam and lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University.
- Martin Palmer, an Anglican lay preacher and theologian and author of The Sacred History of Britain.
- Mehri Niknam, Executive Director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London.
- Philip Davis, is Reader in English Literature at the University of Liverpool
- A.N. Wilson, is a novelist, biographer and author of The Victorians
- Dinah Birch, Fellow and tutor in English at Trinity College, Oxford.
Human Nature - innate or nurtured?
- Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT
- Janet Radcliffe Richards, Philosopher, Reader in Bioethics, University College London
- John Gray, Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics
Architecture and power - imagery of imperialism
- Adrian Tinniswood, Architectural historian
- Gavin Stamp, Senior Lecturer, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
- Gillian Darley, Architectural historian and biographer of John Soane
The scientist in history - missionary or monster?
- John Gribbin, Visiting Fellow in Astronomy, University of Sussex, author of Science: A History 1543-2001
- Patricia Fara, Lecturer on the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
- Hugh Pennington, Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Aberdeen.
Slavery and empire - were Britons also captives?
- Linda Colley, School Professor of History, LSE and author of Captives
- Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London,
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Professorial Research Fellow, Queen Mary College London
Psychoanalysis - do people crave dictatorship?
- Adam Phillips, Author of Equals and general editor of the new Penguin translations of Freud
- Sally Alexander, Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- Malcolm Bowie, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Freedom - a principle worth fighting and dying for?
- John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Westminster, author of a forthcoming history of democracy
- Bernard Williams, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, author of the forthcoming Truth and Truthfulness (Princeton Press, October 2002)
- Annabel Brett, Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, editor with Quentin Skinner of Liberty, Right and Nature (Cambridge University Press).
Cultural Imperialism - should we try to prevent it?
- Linda Colley, School Professor of History, London School of Economics
- Phillip Dodd, Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Mary Beard, Reader in Classics, Cambridge University and author of The Parthenon.
Richard Wagner - his influence on the German spirit.
- John Deathridge, King Edward the Seventh Professor of Music, Kings College London
- Lucy Beckett, Author of Richard Wagner: Parsifal
- Michael Tanner, Philosopher and author of Wagner and Nietzsche
The American West - was it an "experiment of liberty"?
- 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
- Jenni Calder, Author of There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West
- Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art, author of Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone
The Soul - the key to our individuality as humans?
- Richard Sorabji, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College
- Ruth Padel, poet and author of In and Out of the Mind: Tragic Images of Self and Body
- Martin Palmer, Theologian and Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture.
The Grand Tour - what drove this desire for travel?
- Chloe Chard, Literary historian and author of Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour
- Jeremy Black, Professor of History, University of Exeter and author of The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century
- Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Institute and author of A Traveller’s Companion to Florence
History of drugs - their role in medicine and the arts
- Richard Davenport-Hines, Historian and author of The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, Phoenix Press
- Sadie Plant, Author of Writing on Drugs, Faber and Faber
- Mike Jay, Historian and author of Emperors of Dreams, Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, Dedalus Ltd
Chaos Theory - ws the universe chaotic or orderly?
- Susan Greenfield, Senior Research Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford University
- David Papineau, Professor of the Philosophy of Science, Kings College, London
- Neil Johnson, University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University
The Examined Life - is an unexamined life worth living?
- Anthony Grayling, Reader in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London
- Janet Radcliffe Richards, Philosopher of Science and Reader in Bioethics, University College, London
- Julian Baggini, Editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine and co-editor of New British Philosophy: The Interviews
Schrödinger's Cat - Quantum Mechanics
- Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
- Fay Dowker, Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary, University of London
- Tony Sudbery, Professor of Mathematics, University of York
Tolstoy - the influence of the Russian Novel
- Andrew Norman Wilson, Novelist, journalist and biographer of Tolstoy
- Catriona Kelly, Reader in Russian, Oxford University
- Sarah Hudspith, Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds
Bohemia - what did it mean to be Bohemian?
- Norman Davies, Professor Emeritus, University of London, author of Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City
- Karin Friedrich, Lecturer in History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
- Robert Pynsent, Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature, University College London
ET - new life within our solar system
- Simon Goodwin, Researcher in Astronomy, Cardiff University
- Heather Couper, Space expert, co-author of Is Anybody Out There?
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University
The Artist - a special kind of human being?
- Emma Barker, Lecturer in Art History at The Open University
- Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck University of London
- Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge
Marriage - its various forms and the role of the State
- Janet Soskice, Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology, Cambridge University
- Frederik Pedersen, Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University
- Christina Hardyment, Social historian and journalist
Budhhism - why has it captured the spirit of our age?
- Peter Harvey, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland
- Kate Crosby, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, SOAS
- Mahinda Deagallee, Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.
John Milton - poet or politician?
- John Carey, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University
- Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College, University of London and Honorary Fellow of King's College Cambridge.
- Blair Worden, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sussex
Virtue - is it derived from reason?
- Galen Strawson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
- Miranda Fricker, Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
- Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford.
The Celts - what were the Celts in Britain really like?
- Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford University and author of Facing The Ocean
- Alistair Moffat, Writer and Historian and author of The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland
- Miranda Aldhouse Green, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales and authorof Dying for the Gods.
Anatomy - 2000 years of anatomical study
- Harold Ellis, Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London
- Ruth Richardson, Historian, and author of Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Phoenix Press
- Andrew Cunningham, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
[edit] External links
- In Our Time at the BBC website
