In Our Time - 2008 

BBC Radio 4 
64kbps 44kHz mono 
Source: MP3 downloads from the BBC website (see notes) 

28 hours 27 mins (41 episodes of approx 42 mins) 

In Our Time is a long-running live BBC radio programme in which Melvyn Bragg guides three expert guests through a 40 minute discussion of the weeks' subject. The show's tag-line is "exploring the history of ideas" and subject matter jumps eclectically from science to history, literature, religion and philosophy. The experts are almost always erudite and able to explain the sometimes-complex material so as to be understandable to the reasonably educated layman. 

Notes 
This torrent includes all 41 episodes of In Our Time that were broadcast in 2008. 

These are not radio recordings. With two exceptions they are the MP3 downloads that the BBC make available for one week only. The execptions are the programmes from 17 April (Yeats) and 20 November (The Baroque) which were recorded from the BBC's RealAudio "Listen Again" stream (the Yeats episode was encoded in stereo with a sample rate of 22kHz). 


2008-01-03 Albert Camus - Rebel with a Cause 
2008-01-10 The Charge of the Light Brigade - "All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred" 
2008-01-17 The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal 
2008-01-24 Plate Tectonics - the day the Earth moved 
2008-01-31 The Court of Rudolf II - the lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas 
2008-02-07 The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the Origins of Society 
2008-02-14 The Statue of Liberty - From France with love... 
2008-02-21 The Multiverse - the universe is not enough 
2008-02-28 King Lear - Shakespeare's finest fairy tale 
2008-03-06 Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age 
2008-03-13 The Greek Myths - soap opera of the gods 
2008-03-20 Soren Kierkegaard - fear and trembling in Copenhagen 
2008-03-27 The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins 
2008-04-03 Newton's Laws of Motion - they put a man on the Moon 
2008-04-10 The Norman Yoke - 1067 and all that 
2008-04-17 Yeats and Irish Politics - "a terrible beauty is born" 
2008-04-24 Materialism - are we living in a material world? 
2008-05-01 The Enclosures - dividing the country 
2008-05-08 The Brain: A History - food for thought 
2008-05-15 The Library at Nineveh - treasure trove of Assyrian ideas 
2008-05-22 The Black Death - a plague on all our houses 
2008-05-29 Probability - heads or tails? 
2008-06-05 Trofim Lysenko - Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist 
2008-06-12 The Riddle of the Sands - how Britain learned to fear the Germans 
2008-06-19 The Music of the Spheres - a dose of heavenly harmonies 
2008-06-26 The Arab Conquests - the 7th century new world order 
2008-07-03 The Metaphysical Poets - sex and death in the 17th century 
2008-07-10 Tacitus - The Decadence of Rome 
2008-09-25 Miracles - will they never cease? 
2008-10-02 The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic 
2008-10-09 Godel's Incompleteness Theorems - the dirty secrets of maths 
2008-10-16 Vitalism - the spark of life 
2008-10-23 Dante's Inferno - to Hell and back 
2008-10-30 Simon Bolivar - the liberator of Spanish America 
2008-11-06 Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society? 
2008-11-13 Neuroscience - does the brain rule the mind? 
2008-11-20 The Baroque - the misshapen pearl of Europe 
2008-11-27 The Great Reform Act - reform, but was it great? 
2008-12-04 Heat: A History - from fire to thermodynamics 
2008-12-11 The Great Fire of London - London's burning, fetch the engines... 
2008-12-18 The Physics of Time - does time even exist? 



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