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 the United Kingdom. It is currently broadcast on Thursday mornings at 9am with a shortened repeat at 9.30pm the same day.

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[edit] About the series

In Our Time is described as a series investigating the "history of ideas". The series covers many different subjects from history, religion, 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. It is produced by James Cook.

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 days) 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%).

[edit] The format of the programme

The essential part of the programme lasts 42 minutes. Melvyn Bragg starts with a summary, in about 200 words, of the week's topic. He then introduces three specialists, usually either two men and a woman or two women and a man, who are with him in the studio. Bragg appears familiar with their work - he may have read their books, and during the programme he will often refer to material which they have submitted in advance.

One of the specialists is invited to begin the proceedings, and then Bragg advances the discussion by inviting another of the guests to answer a question. This continues along a preplanned route until the forty-two minute mark is in sight. Bragg then either winds the programme up himself or allows a remark from one of the specialists to be the concluding statement.

Sometimes, in concluding, he mentions regretfully that there was no time for a particular aspect of the subject. Clearly there had been a plan to include it, but dwelling for too long on an earlier aspect had led to its omission. The programme is usually live and unedited in the morning edition. This is demonstrated during the 26 April 2007 episode where one of the participants joins late but has been 'listening in the taxi on the way in'. To the listener at least, it is Bragg, as knowledgeable amateur, introducing and chairing a planned discussion about the topic. He usually succeeds in guiding it to a satisfactory conclusion. This simple structure and lack of editing allows every programme to develop in a unique way while the format remains the same.

[edit] List of programmes

[edit] 2008-2007

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Broadcast date Title Contributors
5 June 2008 Trofim Lysenko - Joseph Stalin's chief geneticist Robert Service, Steve Jones, Catherine Merridale
29 May 2008 Probability - heads or tails? Marcus du Sautoy, Colva Roney-Dougal, Ian Stewart
22 May 2008 The Black Death - a plague on all our houses Miri Rubin, Samuel Cohn, Paul Binski
15 May 2008 The Library at Nineveh - Eleanor Robson, Karen Radner, Andrew George
8 May 2008 The Brain: A History - food for thought Vivian Nutton, Jonathan Sawday, Marina Wallace
1 May 2008 The Enclosures - dividing the country Rosemary Sweet, Murray Pittock, Mark Overton
April 24 2008 Materialism - are we living in a material world? Anthony Grayling, Caroline Warman, Anthony O'Hear
April 17 2008 Yeats and Irish Politics - "a terrible beauty is born" Roy Foster, Fran Brearton, Warwick Gould
April 10 2008 The Norman Yoke - 1067 and all that Sarah Foot, Richard Gameson, Matthew Strickland
April 3 2008 Newton's Laws of Motion - they put a man on the Moon Simon Schaffer, Raymond Flood, Rob Iliffe
March 27 2008 The Dissolution of the Monasteries - religion in ruins Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard
March 20 2008 Soren Kierkegaard - fear and trembling in Copenhagen Jonathan Rée, Clare Carlisle, John Lippitt
March 13 2008 The Greek Myths - soap opera of the gods Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton, Mary Beard
March 6 2008 Ada Lovelace - prophet of the computer age Patricia Fara, Doron Swade, John Fuegi
February 28 2008 King Lear - Shakespeare's finest fairy tale Jonathan Bate, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Catherine Belsey
February 21 2008 The Multiverse - the universe is not enough Martin Rees, Fay Dowker, Bernard Carr
February 14 2008 The Statue of Liberty - From France with love... Robert Gildea, Kathleen Burk, John Keane
February 7 2008 The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the Origins of Society Melissa Lane, Susan James, Karen O’Brien
January 31 2008 The Court of Rudolf II - the lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas Peter Forshaw, Howard Hotson, Adam Mosley,
January 24 2008 Plate Tectonics - the day the Earth moved Richard Corfield, Joe Cann, Lynne Frostick
January 17, 2008 The Fisher King - the wound that does not heal Carolyne Larrington, Stephen Knight, Juliette Wood
January 10, 2008 The Charge of the Light Brigade - "All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred" Mike Broers, Trudi Tate, Saul David
January 3, 2008 Albert Camus - Rebel with a Cause Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker, Christina Howells
December 27, 2007 The Nicene Creed - when Christ became God Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, Andrew Louth
December 20, 2007 The Four Humours - yellow bile, blood, choler and phlegm in the original theory of everything David Wootton, Vivian Nutton, Noga Arikha
December 13, 2007 The Sassanian Empire - - in the shadow of Ancient Persia Hugh Kennedy, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, James Howard-Johnston
December 6, 2007 Genetic Mutation - the error-strewn secrets of life Steve Jones, Adrian Woolfson, Linda Partridge
November 29, 2007 The Fibonacci Sequence - - the numbers in nature Marcus du Sautoy, Jackie Stedall, , Ron Knott
November 22, 2007 The Prelude - the greatest poem in the English language? Rosemary Ashton, Stephen Gill, Emma Mason
November 15, 2007 The Discovery of Oxygen - feuds and revolutions at the birth of modern chemistry Simon Schaffer, Jenny Uglow, Hasok Chang
November 8, 2007 Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison, Nader El-Bizri
November 1, 2007 Guilt - what is it good for? Stephen Mulhall, Miranda Fricker, Oliver Davies
October 25, 2007 Taste - the good, the bad and the ugly in 18th century Amanda Vickery, John Mullan, Jeremy Black
October 18, 2007 The Arabian Nights - The art of story-telling Robert Irwin, Marina Warner, Gerard van Gelder, Laudian
October 11, 2007 Divine Right of Kings - "there's such divinity doth hedge a king" Justin Champion, Tom Healy, Clare Jackson
October 4, 2007 Antimatter - where has it all gone? Val Gibson, Frank Close, Ruth Gregory
September 27, 2007 Socrates - the man and the myth Angie Hobbs, David Sedley, Paul Millett

[edit] 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
June 21, 2007 Common Sense Philosophy - "there is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it" A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane,[8] Alexander Broadie[9]
June 14, 2007 Renaissance Astrology - "we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them" Peter Forshaw,[10] Lauren Kassell,[11] Jonathan Sawday[12]
June 7, 2007 Siegfried Sassoon - the poet who survived Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton,[13] 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,[14] Malcolm Vale,[15] Matthew Bennett[16]
May 17, 2007 Gravitational Waves - a new window on the universe Jim Al-Khalili, Carolin Crawford,[17] Sheila Rowan[18]
May 10, 2007 Victorian Pessimism - fear and loathing in the late 19th century Dinah Birch,[19] Rosemary Ashton,[20] Peter Mandler
May 3, 2007 Spinoza - believed that God and Nature were the same thing Jonathan Rée, Sarah Hutton,[21] John Cottingham[22]
April 26, 2007 Greek and Roman Love Poetry - the pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus Nick Lowe[23], Edith Hall, Maria Wyke[24]
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[25], Lars Laamann[26], Xun Zhou[27]
April 5, 2007 St Hilda - the life and times of the Abbess of Whitby John Blair[28], Rosemary Cramp[29], Sarah Foot
March 29, 2007 Anaesthetics - from ether frolics to pain free surgery David Wilkinson[30], Stephanie Snow[31], Dr Anne Hardy[32]
March 22, 2007 Bismarck - The Iron Chancellor Richard J. Evans, Christopher Clark, Katharine Lerman[33]
March 15, 2007 Epistolary Literature - great novels of fictional letters John Mullan, Karen O'Brien,[34] Brean Hammond[35]
March 8, 2007 Microbiology - the story of the invisible masters of the universe John Dupré, Anne Glover,[36] Andrew Mendelsohn[37]
March 1, 2007 The History of Optics - from telescopes to microscopes, a new way of seeing the world Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett, Emily Winterburn[38]
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,[39] Robert Hampson,[40] Laurence Davies[41]
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, Naomi Standen,[42] George Lane[43]
January 25, 2007 Archimedes - the Greek mathematician and his Eureka moments Jackie Stedall,[44] Serafina Cuomo,[45] George Phillips[46]
January 18, 2007 The Jesuits - the school masters of Europe Nigel Aston,[47] Simon Ditchfield,[48] 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,[49] Efraín Kristal,[50] Evelyn Fishburn[51]
December 28, 2006 The Siege of Constantinople - the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire Roger Crowley,[52] Judith Herrin, Colin Imber[53]
December 21, 2006 Hell - its representation through the ages Martin Palmer, Margaret Kean,[54] Neil MacGregor
December 14, 2006 Indian Maths - laying the foundations for modern numerals and zero as a number George Gheverghese Joseph,[55] Colva Roney-Dougal,[56] Dennis Almeida[57]
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,[58] Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 23, 2006 Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it? Miranda Fricker, Richard Dawkins, John Dupré
November 16, 2006 The Peasants' Revolt - a lasting legacy for popular uprising? Miri Rubin, Caroline Barron,[59] Alastair Dunn[60]
November 9, 2006 Alexander Pope - "short is my date, but deathless my renown" John Mullan, Jim McLaverty,[61] Valerie Rumbold[62]
November 2, 2006 The Poincaré conjecture - how a 19th century mathematician changed how we think about the shape of the universe June Barrow-Green,[63] Ian Stewart, Marcus du Sautoy
October 26, 2006 The Encyclopédie - the great project of the Enlightenment Judith Hawley,[64] Caroline Warman,[65] David Wootton[66]
October 19, 2006 The Needham Question - did China lay the foundations of modern science? Dr Chris Cullen,[67] Tim Barrett,[68] Frances Wood[69]
October 12, 2006 The Diet of Worms - Luther's stand against the Church Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi,[70] Reverend Dr Charlotte Methuen[71]
October 5, 2006 Averroes - the battle between faith and reason Amira Bennison,[72] Peter Adamson,[73] Sir Anthony Kenny
September 28, 2006 Alexander von Humboldt - the remarkable career of the Prussian naturalist Jason Wilson,[74] Patricia Fara,[75] Jim Secord[76]

[edit] 2006-2005

Broadcast date Title Contributors
July 13, 2006 Greek Comedy - sing as you revel and rout Paul Cartledge, Edith Hall, Nick Lowe[23]
July 6, 2006 Pastoral Literature - the romantic idealisation of the countryside Helen Cooper, Laurence Lerner, Julie Sanders[77]
June 29, 2006 Galaxies - extra-galactic nebulae, black holes, stars and dark matter John Gribbin, Carolin Crawford,[17] Robert Kennicutt
June 22, 2006 The Spanish Inquisition - one of the most barbaric episodes in European history John Edwards,[78] Alexander Murray,[79] Michael Alpert[80]
June 15, 2006 Carbon - the basis of life Harry Kroto, Monica Grady, Ken Teo[81]
June 8, 2006 Uncle Tom's Cabin - the novel that started the American Civil War Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier,[82] Dr Sarah Meer,[83] Dr Clive Webb[84]
June 1, 2006 The Heart - its anatomical and cultural history David Wootton,[66] Fay Bound Alberti,[85] Jonathan Sawday[12]
May 25, 2006 Mathematics and Music - the science behind sound and composition Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Ruth Tatlow[86]
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,[87] Diane Purkiss, Nicola Bown[88]
May 4, 2006 Astronomy and Empire - the link between colonial expansion and scientific discovery Simon Schaffer, Kristen Lippincott,[89] Allan Chapman
April 27, 2006 The Great Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world Jeremy Black, Hermione Hobhouse,[90] Clive Emsley
April 20, 2006 The Search for Immunisation - and the battle against smallpox Nadja Durbach,[91] Dr Chris Dye,[92] Sanjoy Bhattacharya[93]
April 13, 2006 The Oxford Movement - Anglicans and Catholics in the 19th century Sheridan Gilley,[94] Frances Knight,[95] Simon Skinner[96]
April 6, 2006 Goethe - formation of a German cultural icon T. C. W. Blanning, Sarah Colvin,[97] W. Daniel Wilson[98]
March 30, 2006 The Carolingian Renaissance - the revival of early medieval Western Europe Matthew Innes,[99] Julia Smith,[100] Mary Garrison[101]
March 23, 2006 The Royal Society - the first club for experimental science Stephen Pumfrey,[102] Lisa Jardine, Michael Hunter
March 16, 2006 Don Quixote - Spanish romance and the first novel Barry Ife,[103] Edwin Williamson,[49] Jane Whetnall[104]
March 9, 2006 Negative numbers - how they spread across civilizations Ian Stewart, Colva Roney-Dougal,[56] Raymond Flood[105]
March 2, 2006 Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions Angie Hobbs, Mark Vernon,[106] John Mullan
February 23, 2006 Catherine the Great - the Enlightened Despot of Eighteenth Century Russia Janet Hartley,[107] Simon Dixon,[108] Tony Lentin[109]
February 16, 2006 Human Evolution - from early hominids to Homo sapiens Steve Jones, Fred Spoor,[110] Margaret Clegg[111]
February 9, 2006 Geoffrey Chaucer - the first Great English Poet Dr Carolyne Larrington,[112] Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield[113]
February 2, 2006 The Abbasid Caliphs - when Baghdad ruled the Muslim world. Hugh N. Kennedy, Robert Graham Irwin, Amira Bennison[72]
January 26, 2006 Seventeenth Century Print Culture - piety, populism and political protest Kevin Sharpe,[114] Ann Hughes,[115] Joad Raymond[116]
January 19, 2006 Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge Barry Smith,[117] Jonathan Rée, Kathleen Lennon[118]
January 12, 2006 Prime Numbers - the building blocks of mathematics Marcus du Sautoy, Robin Wilson, Jackie Stedall[44]
January 5, 2006 The Oath - guaranteeing law, government and the army in the Classical world Alan Sommerstein,[119] Paul Cartledge, Mary Beard
December 29, 2005 Aeschylus' Oresteia - the birth of tragedy Edith Hall, Simon Goldhill, Thomas Healy[120]
December 22, 2005 Heaven - a journey through the afterlife Valery Rees,[121] Martin Palmer, John Carey
December 15, 2005 The Peterloo Massacre - democratic protest and brutal repression Jeremy Black, Sarah Richardson,[122] Clive Emsley
December 8, 2005 Artificial Intelligence - the quest for a machine that can think Jon Agar,[123] Alison Adam,[124] Igor Aleksander
December 1, 2005 Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of Leviathan Quentin Skinner, David Wootton,[66] Annabel Brett[125]
November 24, 2005 The Graviton - the quest for the theoretical gravity particle Roger Cashmore, Jim Al-Khalili, Sheila Rowan[18]
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, Alexander Murray,[79] Sir Anthony Kenny
November 3, 2005 Asteroids - celestial bodies from the beginning of time Monica Grady, Carolin Crawford,[17] John Zarnecki
October 27, 2005 Samuel Johnson and His Circle - life with the professional man of letters John Mullan, Jim McLaverty,[61] Judith Hawley[64]
October 20, 2005 Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy Angie Hobbs, Miriam Griffin,[126] John Moles[127]
October 13, 2005 The Rise of the Mammals - life in a cold climate Richard Corfield,[6] Steve Jones, Jane Francis
October 6, 2005 Field of the Cloth of Gold - a Renaissance entente cordiale Steven Gunn,[128] John Guy, Penny Roberts[129]
September 29, 2005 Magnetism - an attractive history Stephen Pumfrey,[102] John Heilbron, Lisa Jardine

[edit] 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,[130] Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith[131]
June 30, 2005 Merlin - the original Welsh wizard Dr Juliette Wood,[87] Stephen Knight, Peter Forshaw[10]
June 23, 2005 The KT Boundary - did the dinosaurs burn out or fade away? Simon Kelley,[132] Jane Francis, Mike Benton[7]
June 16, 2005 Paganism in the Renaissance - how the classical gods returned to the Christian cities Thomas Healy,[120] Charles Hope,[133] Evelyn Welch[134]
June 9, 2005 The Scriblerus Club - the satirists-in-chief of the 18th century John Mullan, Judith Hawley,[64] Marcus Walsh[135]
June 2, 2005 Renaissance Maths - the birth of modern mathematics? Robert Kaplan,[136] Jim Bennett, Jackie Stedall[44]
May 26, 2005 The Terror - when Madame Guillotine ruled France Mike Broers,[137] Rebecca Spang,[138] T. C. W. Blanning
May 19, 2005 Beauty - the philosophy of beauty Angie Hobbs, Susan James,[139] Julian Baggini
May 5, 2005 Abelard and Heloise - love, sex and theology in 12th century Paris A. C. Grayling, Henrietta Leyser, Michael Clanchy[140]
April 28, 2005 Perception and the Senses - how do we see what we see? Richard Gregory, David Moore,[141] Gemma Calvert[142]
April 21, 2005 The Aeneid - the Roman history of the world Edith Hall, Philip Hardie,[143] Catharine Edwards[144]
April 14, 2005 Archaeology and Imperialism - conquest of the past Tim Champion,[145] Richard Parkinson[146], Eleanor Robson
April 7, 2005 Alfred and the Battle of Edington - without Alfred, no England? Dr Richard Gameson,[147] Sarah Foot, John Hines[148]
March 31, 2005 John Ruskin - a different kind of Victorian Dinah Birch,[19] Keith Hanley,[149] Stefan Collini[150]
March 24, 2005 Angels - how they got their wings Martin Palmer, Valery Rees,[121] John Haldane[151]
March 17, 2005 Dark Energy - the unknown force breaking the universe apart Sir Martin Rees, Carolin Crawford,[17] Sir Roger Penrose
March 10, 2005 Modernist Utopias - the original 21st century John Carey, Steve Connor,[152] Laura Marcus[153]
March 3, 2005 Stoicism - the search for inner calm Angie Hobbs, Jonathan Rée, David Sedley[154]
February 24, 2005 Alchemy - seeking the perfection of all things Peter Forshaw,[10] Lauren Kassell,[11] Stephen Pumfrey[102]
February 17, 2005 The Cambrian Explosion - the big bang of evolutionary history Simon Conway Morris, Richard Corfield,[6] 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[155]
January 6, 2005 The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II - did his killing cause the Russian Revolution? Orlando Figes, Dominic Lieven,[156] Catriona Kelly[157]
December 30, 2004 The Roman Republic - what were Rome's republican ideals? Greg Woolf,[158] Catherine Steel,[159] Tom Holland
December 23, 2004 Faust - the original pact with the Devil Dr Juliette Wood,[87] Osman Durrani,[160] Rosemary Ashton[20]
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,[134] Lisa Jardine
December 2, 2004 Carl Gustav Jung - Discovering the Self Brett Kahr,[161] Ronald Hayman, Andrew Samuels
November 25, 2004 The Venerable Bede - the father of English history Dr Richard Gameson,[147] Sarah Foot, Dr Michelle Brown[162]
November 18, 2004 Higgs Boson - the search for the God particle Jim Al-Khalili, David Wark[163], Roger Cashmore
November 11, 2004 Zoroastrianism - was the religion of the Persian Empire the first monotheism? Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis,[164] Farrokh Vajifdar,[165] Alan Williams[166]
November 4, 2004 Electrickery - the origins of electricity Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara,[75] Iwan Morus[58]
October 28, 2004 Rhetoric - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues Angie Hobbs, Thomas Healy,[120] Ceri Sullivan[167]
October 21, 2004 Witchcraft - Reformation Europe turned upon itself Alison Rowlands,[168] Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill[169]
October 14, 2004 The Han Synthesis - creating the Chinese cosmos Dr Chris Cullen,[67] Carol Michaelson,[170] Roel Sterckx
October 7, 2004 Jean-Paul Sartre - a man condemned to be free Jonathan Rée, Benedict O'Donohoe,[171] Christina Howells[172]
September 30, 2004 Politeness - the great 18th century craze Amanda Vickery,[173] David Wootton,[66] John Mullan
September 23, 2004 The Origins of Life - how it all began Richard Dawkins, Richard Corfield,[6] Linda Partridge[174]
September 16, 2004 Agincourt - the real facts behind the battle. Anne Curry,[14] Michael Jones, John Watts[175]
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[136], Eleanor Robson, Ian Stewart

[edit] 2004-2003

Broadcast date Title Contributors
June 24, 2004 George Washington and the American Revolution - the most significant event in history Carol Berkin,[176] Simon Middleton,[177] Colin Bonwick[178]
June 17, 2004 Renaissance Magic - the great passion of the age Peter Forshaw,[10] Valery Rees,[121] Jonathan Sawday[12]
June 10, 2004 Empiricism - the English philosophy? Judith Hawley,[64] Murray Pittock,[179] Jonathan Rée
June 3, 2004 Babylon - the great forgotten civilisation Eleanor Robson, Irving Finkel[180], Andrew R. George
May 27, 2004 Planets - the astronomy of the 21st century Paul Murdin,[181] Hugh R. A. Jones,[182] Carolin Crawford[17]
May 20, 2004 Toleration - from medieval intolerance to religious freedom Justin Champion, David Wootton,[66] Sarah Barber[183]
May 13, 2004 Zero - everything about nothing Robert Kaplan,[136] 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,[184] James Walvin,[185] Amanda Vickery[173]
April 22, 2004 Hysteria - the normal state of human beings? Juliet Mitchell, Rachel Bowlby,[186] Brett Kahr[161]
April 15, 2004 The Later Romantics - the world of Byron, Keats and Shelley Jonathan Bate, Robert Woof, Jennifer Wallace[187]
April 8, 2004 The Fall - how Adam and Eve affect us all Martin Palmer, Griselda Pollock, John Carey
April 1, 2004 China: The Warring States Period - the fiery beginnings of Chinese civilisation Dr Chris Cullen,[67] Dr Vivienne Lo,[188] Carol Michaelson[170]
March 25, 2004 Theories of Everything - still the holy grail of physics? Brian Greene, John D. Barrow, Dr Val Gibson[189]
March 18, 2004 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Charlotte Roueché,[190] David Womersley,[191] Richard Alston[192]
March 11, 2004 The Norse Gods - the great myths of pagan Europe Dr Carolyne Larrington,[112] Heather O'Donoghue,[193] John Hines[148]
March 4, 2004 Dreams - is there a science of dreams? Professor V S Ramachandran,[194] Mark Solms,[195] Martin Conway[196]
February 26, 2004 The Mughal Empire - the glory of India Sanjay Subrahmanyam,[197] Susan Stronge,[198] Chandrika Kaul[199]
February 19, 2004 Rutherford - the father of nuclear physics Simon Schaffer, Jim Al-Khalili, Patricia Fara[75]
February 12, 2004 The Sublime - defining the state of awe Janet Todd, Annie Janowitz,[200] Peter de Bolla[201]
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,[202] Lisa Jardine
December 26, 2003 Lamarck and Natural Selection - the Lamarckian Heresy Sandy Knapp,[203] Steve Jones, Simon Conway Morris
December 18, 2003 The Alphabet - its creation and development Eleanor Robson, Alan Millard, Rosalind Thomas[204]
December 11, 2003 The Devil - a brief biography Martin Palmer, Alison Rowlands,[168] David Wootton[66]
December 4, 2003 Wittgenstein - a philosophy of linguistics Ray Monk, Barry Smith,[117] Marie McGinn[205]
November 27, 2003 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre - slaughter in Paris. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass,[206] Penny Roberts[129]
November 20, 2003 Ageing the Earth - a journey in geological time. Richard Corfield,[6] Hazel Rymer,[207] Henry Gee
November 13, 2003 Duty - concepts of obligation. Angie Hobbs, Annabel Brett,[125] A. C. Grayling
November 6, 2003 Sensation - the best sellers of the 19th century. John Mullan, Lyn Pykett,[208] Dinah Birch[19]
October 30, 2003 Robin Hood - the greatest of English myths. Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn,[209] Dr Juliette Wood[87]
October 23, 2003 Infinity - a brief history. Ian Stewart, Robert Kaplan,[136] Sarah Rees[210]
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,[211] Graham Robb
October 2, 2003 James Clerk Maxwell - great 19th century physicist Simon Schaffer, Peter Harman,[212] Joanna Haigh[213]

[edit] 2003-2002

Broadcast date Title Contributors
July 17, 2003 The Apocalypse - was it a revelation? Martin Palmer, Marina Benjamin,[214] Justin Champion
July 10, 2003 Nature - from Homer to Darwin Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards[215]
July 3, 2003 Vulcanology - significance of volcanoes. Hilary Downes,[216] Steve Self,[217] Bill McGuire
June 26, 2003 The East India Co - a corporate route to Empire. Huw Bowen,[184] Linda Colley, Maria Misra
June 19, 2003 The Aristocracy - how the ruling class survives David Cannadine, Rosemary Sweet,[218] 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, Peter Jones[219]
May 29, 2003 Memory - and the brain Martin Conway,[196] Mike Kopelman,[220] Kim Graham[221]
May 22, 2003 Blood - its religious, medical and moral significance Miri Rubin, Dr Anne Hardy,[32] Jonathan Sawday[12]
May 15, 2003 The Holy Grail - just a medieval myth? Dr Carolyne Larrington,[112] Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dr Juliette Wood[87]
May 8, 2003 The Jacobite Rebellion - could it have succeeded? Murray Pittock,[179] Stana Nenadic,[222] Allan Macinnes[223]
May 1, 2003 Roman Britain - the effects of 400 years of occupation Greg Woolf,[158] Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards[144]
April 24, 2003 Youth - from Adonis to James Dean Tim Whitmarsh,[224] Thomas Healy,[120] Deborah Thom[225]
April 17, 2003 Proust - his life and work Jacqueline Rose, Malcolm Bowie, Dr Robert Fraser[226]
April 3, 2003 The Spanish Civil War - causes and legacy Paul Preston, Helen Graham,[227] Dr Mary Vincent[228]
March 27, 2003 Supernovas - the life cycle of stars Paul Murdin,[181] Janna Levin, Phil Charles[229]
March 20, 2003 Originality - is it just a romantic notion? John Deathridge, Jonathan Rée, Professor Catherine Belsey[230]
March 13, 2003 Redemption - the concept of salvation Richard Harries, Janet Soskice,[231] Stephen Mulhall
March 6, 2003 Meteorology - why does it still fascinate us? Vladimir Jankovic,[232] Richard Hamblyn,[233] Liba Taub[234]
February 27, 2003 The Aztecs - looking behind the myths Alan Knight, Adrian Locke,[235] Elizabeth Graham[236]
February 20, 2003 The Lindisfarne Gospels - unifying Christianity in Britain Dr Michelle Brown,[162] Dr Richard Gameson,[147] Professor Clare Lees[237]
February 13, 2003 Chance and Design in Evolution - Design in Nature Simon Conway Morris, Sandy Knapp,[203] John Hedley Brooke
February 6, 2003 The Epic - from Homer to Joyce John Carey, Karen Edwards,[215] Oliver Taplin
December 19, 2002 The Calendar - a history of the Calendar Robert Poole,[238] Kristen Lippincott,[89] Peter Watson
December 12, 2002 Disease - the fight against diseases and plagues Dr Anne Hardy,[32] David Bradley,[239] Dr Chris Dye[92]
December 5, 2002 The Scottish Enlightenment - how enlightened? Professor Tom Devine, Karen O'Brien,[240] Alexander Broadie[9]
November 28, 2002 Imagination - just what is it? Dr Susan Stuart,[241] Steven Mithen, Semir Zeki
November 21, 2002 Cordoba and Muslim Spain - a culture of tolerance? Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, Mehri Niknam[242]
November 14, 2002 Victorian Realism - how real? Philip Maurice Davis,[243] A.N. Wilson, Dinah Birch[19]
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, Gavin Stamp, Gillian Darley[244]
October 24, 2002 The Scientist in History - missionary or monster? John Gribbin, Patricia Fara,[75] Hugh Pennington
October 17, 2002 Slavery and Empire - were Britons also captives? Linda Colley, Catherine Hall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

[edit] 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,[245] Malcolm Bowie
July 4, 2002 Freedom - a principle worth fighting and dying for? John Keane, Bernard Williams, Annabel Brett[125]
June 27, 2002 Cultural Imperialism - should we try to prevent it? Linda Colley, Phillip Dodd,[246] Mary Beard
June 20, 2002 Richard Wagner - his influence on the German spirit. John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett,[247] Michael Tanner[248]
June 13, 2002 The American West - was it an "experiment of liberty"? Frank Mclynn,[249] Jenni Calder, Christopher Frayling
June 6, 2002 The Soul - the key to our individuality as humans? Richard Sorabji,[250] Ruth Padel, Martin Palmer
May 30, 2002 The Grand Tour - what drove this desire for travel? Chloe Chard,[251] Jeremy Black, Edward Chaney[252]
May 23, 2002 History of Drugs - their role in medicine and the arts Richard Davenport-Hines, Sadie Plant, Mike Jay[253]
May 16, 2002 Chaos Theory - ws the universe chaotic or orderly? Susan Greenfield, David Papineau, Neil Johnson[254]
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[255]
April 25, 2002 Tolstoy - the influence of the Russian Novel A. N. Wilson, Catriona Kelly,[157] Sarah Hudspith[256]
April 11, 2002 Bohemia - what did it mean to be Bohemian? Norman Davies, Karin Friedrich, Robert Pynsent[257]
April 4, 2002 ET - new life within our solar system Simon Goodwin,[258] Heather Couper, Ian Stewart
March 28, 2002 The Artist - a special kind of human being? Emma Barker,[259] Thomas Healy,[120] T. C. W. Blanning
March 21, 2002 Marriage - its various forms and the role of the State Janet Soskice,[231] Frederik Pedersen,[260] Christina Hardyment[261]
March 14, 2002 Buddhism - why has it captured the spirit of our age? Peter Harvey,[262] Kate Crosby,[263] Mahinda Deagallee[264]
March 7, 2002 John Milton - poet or politician? John Carey, Lisa Jardine, Blair Worden[265]
February 28, 2002 Virtue - is it derived from reason? Galen Strawson, Miranda Fricker, Roger Crisp[266]
February 21, 2002 The Celts - what were the Celts in Britain really like? Barry Cunliffe, Alistair Moffat,[267] Miranda Aldhouse Green[268]
February 14, 2002 Anatomy - 2000 years of anatomical study Harold Ellis,[269] Ruth Richardson,[270] Andrew Cunningham[271]

[edit] 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. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ a b Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol
  8. ^ Melissa Lane, Senior University Lecturer in History at Cambridge University
  9. ^ a b Alexander Broadie, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow, author of The Scottish Enlightenment - The Historical Age of the Historical Nation
  10. ^ a b c d Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London
  11. ^ a b Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
  12. ^ a b c d Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde
  13. ^ Fran Brearton, Reader in English and Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the University of Belfast
  14. ^ a b Anne Curry, Professor of Medieval History at Southampton University
  15. ^ Malcolm Vale, Fellow and Tutor in History at St John's College, Oxford
  16. ^ Matthew Bennett , Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
  17. ^ a b c d e Carolin Crawford, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
  18. ^ a b Sheila Rowan, Professor in Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow
  19. ^ a b c d Dinah Birch, Professor of English at the University of Liverpool
  20. ^ a b Rosemary Ashton, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London
  21. ^ Sarah Hutton, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  22. ^ John Cottingham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
  23. ^ a b Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
  24. ^ Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London
  25. ^ Yangwen Zheng, Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Manchester
  26. ^ Lars Laamann, Research Fellow in Chinese History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
  27. ^ Xun Zhou, Research Fellow in History at SOAS, University of London
  28. ^ John Blair, Fellow in History at The Queen's College, Oxford
  29. ^ Rosemary Cramp, Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at Durham University
  30. ^ David Wilkinson, Consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and President of the History of Anaesthesia Society
  31. ^ Stephanie Snow, Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at the University of Manchester
  32. ^ a b c Dr Anne Hardy, Reader in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
  33. ^ Katharine Lerman, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University
  34. ^ Karen O'Brien, Professor in English at the University of Warwick
  35. ^ Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham
  36. ^ Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Aberdeen University
  37. ^ Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College, University of London
  38. ^ Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum
  39. ^ Susan Jones, Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
  40. ^ Robert Hampson, Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London
  41. ^ Laurence Davies, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  42. ^ Naomi Standen, Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University
  43. ^ George Lane, Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
  44. ^ a b c Jackie Stedall, Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at Queen's College, Oxford
  45. ^ Serafina Cuomo, Reader in the History of Science at Imperial College London
  46. ^ George Phillips, Honorary Reader in Mathematics at St Andrews University
  47. ^ Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester
  48. ^ Simon Ditchfield, Reader in History at the University of York
  49. ^ a b Edwin Williamson, Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford
  50. ^ Efraín Kristal, Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles
  51. ^ Evelyn Fishburn, Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London
  52. ^ Roger Crowley, author and historian
  53. ^ Colin Imber, formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University
  54. ^ Margaret Kean, Tutor and Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
  55. ^ George Gheverghese Joseph, Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education at Manchester University
  56. ^ a b Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews
  57. ^ Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Exeter University and the Open University
  58. ^ a b Iwan Morus, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  59. ^ Caroline Barron, Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London
  60. ^ Alastair Dunn, author of The Peasants' Revolt - England's Failed Revolution of 1381
  61. ^ a b Jim McLaverty, Professor of English at Keele University
  62. ^ Valerie Rumbold, Reader in English Literature at Birmingham University
  63. ^ June Barrow-Green, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open University
  64. ^ a b c d Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
  65. ^ Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford
  66. ^ a b c d e f David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York
  67. ^ a b c Dr Chris Cullen, Director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University
  68. ^ Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS), University of London
  69. ^ Frances Wood, Head of Chinese Collections at the British Library
  70. ^ David Bagchi, Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought at the University of Hull
  71. ^ Reverend Dr Charlotte Methuen, Lecturer in Reformation History at the University of Oxford
  72. ^ a b Amira Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
  73. ^ Peter Adamson, Reader in Philosophy at King's College London
  74. ^ Jason Wilson, Professor of Latin American Literature at University College London
  75. ^ a b c d 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
  76. ^ Jim Secord, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project
  77. ^ Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham
  78. ^ John Edwards, Research Fellow in Spanish at the University of Oxford
  79. ^ a b Alexander Murray, Medieval historian and Emeritus Fellow in History at University College, Oxford
  80. ^ Michael Alpert, Emeritus Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Spain at the University of Westminster
  81. ^ Ken Teo, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Cambridge University
  82. ^ Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier, Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Nottingham
  83. ^ Dr Sarah Meer, Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
  84. ^ Dr Clive Webb, Reader in American History at the University of Sussex
  85. ^ Fay Bound Alberti, Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester
  86. ^ Ruth Tatlow, Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Stockholm
  87. ^ a b c d e Dr Juliette Wood, Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales in Cardiff and Secretary of the Folklore Society
  88. ^ Nicola Bown, Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
  89. ^ a b Kristen Lippincott, Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
  90. ^ Hermione Hobhouse, Architectural Historian and Writer
  91. ^ Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah
  92. ^ a b Dr Chris Dye, Co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's work on tuberculosis epidemiology
  93. ^ Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer in the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
  94. ^ Sheridan Gilley, Emeritus Reader in Theology at the University of Durham
  95. ^ Frances Knight, Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Lampeter
  96. ^ Simon Skinner, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford
  97. ^ Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh
  98. ^ W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London
  99. ^ Matthew Innes, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
  100. ^ Julia Smith, Edwards Professor of Medieval History at Glasgow University
  101. ^ Mary Garrison, Lecturer in History at the University of York
  102. ^ a b c Stephen Pumfrey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster
  103. ^ Barry Ife, Cervantes Professor Emeritus at King's College London
  104. ^ Jane Whetnall, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
  105. ^ Raymond Flood, Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at Kellogg College, Oxford
  106. ^ Mark Vernon, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University
  107. ^ Janet Hartley, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics
  108. ^ Simon Dixon, Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds
  109. ^ Tony Lentin, Professor of History at the Open University
  110. ^ Fred Spoor, Professor of Evolutionary Anatomy at University College London
  111. ^ Margaret Clegg, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Anthropology at University College London
  112. ^ a b c Dr Carolyne Larrington, Tutor in Medieval English at St John's College, Oxford
  113. ^ Ardis Butterfield, Reader in English at University College London
  114. ^ Kevin Sharpe, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
  115. ^ Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Keele
  116. ^ Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia
  117. ^ a b Barry Smith, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
  118. ^ Kathleen Lennon, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull
  119. ^ Alan Sommerstein, Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham
  120. ^ a b c d e Thomas Healy, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London
  121. ^ a b c Valery Rees, Renaissance scholar and senior member of the Language Department at the School of Economic Science, a translator of Ficino's letters
  122. ^ Sarah Richardson, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
  123. ^ Jon Agar, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
  124. ^ Alison Adam, Professor of Information Systems at Salford University
  125. ^ a b c 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).
  126. ^ Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
  127. ^ John Moles, Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle
  128. ^ Steven Gunn, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University
  129. ^ a b Penny Roberts, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick
  130. ^ Katherine Duncan-Jones, Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty of Oxford University
  131. ^ Emma Smith, Lecturer in English at Oxford University
  132. ^ Simon Kelley, Head of Department in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
  133. ^ Charles Hope, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London
  134. ^ a b Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500
  135. ^ Marcus Walsh, Kenneth Allott Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool
  136. ^ a b c d 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)
  137. ^ Mike Broers, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
  138. ^ Rebecca Spang, Lecturer in Modern History at University College London
  139. ^ Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London
  140. ^ Michael Clanchy, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research
  141. ^ David Moore, Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham
  142. ^ Gemma Calvert, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bath
  143. ^ Philip Hardie, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford
  144. ^ a b Catharine Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London
  145. ^ Tim Champion, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
  146. ^ Richard Parkinson, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum
  147. ^ a b c 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)
  148. ^ a b John Hines, Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University
  149. ^ Keith Hanley, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University
  150. ^ Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge
  151. ^ John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews
  152. ^ Steve Connor, Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck, University of London
  153. ^ Laura Marcus, Professor of English at the University of Sussex
  154. ^ David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
  155. ^ Sue James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
  156. ^ Dominic Lieven, Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics
  157. ^ a b Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at Oxford University
  158. ^ a b Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at St Andrews University
  159. ^ Catherine Steel, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.
  160. ^ Osman Durrani, Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury
  161. ^ a b Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and a practising Freudian
  162. ^ a b 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)
  163. ^ David Wark, Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  164. ^ Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum
  165. ^ Farrokh Vajifdar, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a life-long student of Zoroastrianism
  166. ^ Alan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester
  167. ^ Ceri Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor
  168. ^ a b Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex
  169. ^ Malcolm Gaskill, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge
  170. ^ a b Carol Michaelson, Assistant Keeper of Chinese Art in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum
  171. ^ Benedict O'Donohoe, Principal Lecturer in French at the University of the West of England and Secretary of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies
  172. ^ Christina Howells, Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College
  173. ^ a b 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)
  174. ^ Linda Partridge, Biology and Biotechnology Research Council Professor at University College London
  175. ^ John Watts, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christie College, Oxford
  176. ^ Carol Berkin, Professor of History at The City University of New York and author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (Harcourt, 2002)
  177. ^ Simon Middleton, Lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia
  178. ^ Colin Bonwick, Professor Emeritus in American History at Keele University
  179. ^ a b Murray Pittock, Professor of Scottish and Romantic Literature at the University of Manchester
  180. ^ Irving Finkel, Curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the British Museum
  181. ^ a b Paul Murdin, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
  182. ^ Hugh R. A. Jones, Planet hunter and Reader in Astrophysics at Liverpool John Moores University
  183. ^ Sarah Barber, Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
  184. ^ a b Huw Bowen, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester
  185. ^ 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)
  186. ^ 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)
  187. ^ Jennifer Wallace, Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge
  188. ^ Dr Vivienne Lo, Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
  189. ^ Dr Val Gibson, Particle physicist from the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
  190. ^ Charlotte Roueché, historian of late antiquity at Kings College London
  191. ^ 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)
  192. ^ Richard Alston, Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
  193. ^ Heather O'Donoghue, Vigfusson Rausing Reader in Ancient Icelandic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford University
  194. ^ Professor V S Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego
  195. ^ Mark Solms, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town
  196. ^ a b Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at the University of Durham
  197. ^ Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford
  198. ^ Susan Stronge, Curator in the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  199. ^ Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of St Andrews
  200. ^ Annie Janowitz, Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London
  201. ^ Peter de Bolla, Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge
  202. ^ 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)
  203. ^ a b Sandy Knapp, Senior Botanist at the Natural History Museum
  204. ^ Rosalind Thomas, Professor of Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London
  205. ^ Marie McGinn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York
  206. ^ Mark Greengrass, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield
  207. ^ Hazel Rymer, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University
  208. ^ Lyn Pykett, Professor of English and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  209. ^ Thomas Hahn, Professor of English Literature at the University of Rochester, New York
  210. ^ Sarah Rees, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle
  211. ^ Virginia Nicholson, author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 (Viking, 2002. Paperback will be published by Penguin, November 2003)
  212. ^ 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)
  213. ^ Joanna Haigh, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London
  214. ^ Marina Benjamin, journalist and author of Living at the End of the World (Picador, 1999)
  215. ^ a b Karen Edwards, Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter
  216. ^ Hilary Downes, Professor of Geochemistry at Birkbeck, University of London
  217. ^ Steve Self, Professor of Vulcanology at the Open University
  218. ^ Rosemary Sweet, Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester
  219. ^ Peter Jones, Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham
  220. ^ Mike Kopelman, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at King's College London and St Thomas' Hospital
  221. ^ Kim Graham, Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
  222. ^ Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University
  223. ^ Allan Macinnes, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University
  224. ^ Tim Whitmarsh, Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at Exeter University
  225. ^ Deborah Thom, Lecturer in History at Robinson College, Cambridge
  226. ^ Dr Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of Proust and the Victorians (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994)
  227. ^ Helen Graham, Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London
  228. ^ Dr Mary Vincent, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Sheffield University
  229. ^ Phil Charles, Professor of Astronomy at Southampton University
  230. ^ Professor Catherine Belsey, Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University
  231. ^ a b Janet Soskice, Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University
  232. ^ 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)
  233. ^ Richard Hamblyn, writer and author of The Invention of Clouds (Picador, 2002)
  234. ^ 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)
  235. ^ Adrian Locke, co-curator of the Aztecs exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of Arts
  236. ^ Elizabeth Graham, Senior Lecturer in Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London
  237. ^ 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)
  238. ^ Robert Poole, Reader in History at St Martin's College Lancaster and author of Time's Alteration, Calendar Reform in Early Modern England
  239. ^ David Bradley, Professor of Tropical Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  240. ^ Karen O'Brien, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Warwick
  241. ^ Dr Susan Stuart, Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Glasgow.
  242. ^ Mehri Niknam, Executive Director of the Maimonides Foundation, a joint Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Foundation in London.
  243. ^ 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)
  244. ^ Gillian Darley, Architectural historian and biographer of John Soane, An Accidental Romantic (Yale University Press; ISBN 0300086954)
  245. ^ Sally Alexander, Professor of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
  246. ^ Phillip Dodd, Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts
  247. ^ Lucy Beckett, Author of Richard Wagner: Parsifal
  248. ^ Michael Tanner, Philosopher and author of Wagner and Nietzsche
  249. ^ 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
  250. ^ Richard Sorabji, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College
  251. ^ Chloe Chard, Literary historian and author of Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour
  252. ^ Edward Chaney, Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts, Southampton Institute and author of A Traveller's Companion to Florence
  253. ^ Mike Jay, Historian and author of Emperors of Dreams, Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, Dedalus Ltd
  254. ^ Neil Johnson, University Lecturer in Physics at Oxford University
  255. ^ Tony Sudbery, Professor of Mathematics, University of York
  256. ^ Sarah Hudspith, Lecturer in Russian, University of Leeds
  257. ^ 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
  258. ^ Simon Goodwin, Researcher in Astronomy, Cardiff University, co-author of XTL: Extraterrestrial life and how to find it
  259. ^ Emma Barker, Lecturer in Art History at The Open University
  260. ^ Frederik Pedersen, Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University
  261. ^ Christina Hardyment, Social historian and journalist
  262. ^ Peter Harvey, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland
  263. ^ Kate Crosby, Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS)
  264. ^ Mahinda Deagallee, Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Bath Spa University College and a Buddhist Monk from the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.
  265. ^ 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
  266. ^ Roger Crisp, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford.
  267. ^ Alistair Moffat, Writer and Historian and author of The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland
  268. ^ Miranda Aldhouse Green, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales and author of Dying for the Gods
  269. ^ Harold Ellis, Clinical Anatomist, School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London
  270. ^ Ruth Richardson, Historian, and author of Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Phoenix Press
  271. ^ 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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