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In Our Time (radio series)P v NP, first broadcast November 5, 2015
The most famous open problem in computer science, and the one most likely to scare a newcomer off, made graspable by talk alone. Timothy Gowers, Colva Roney-Dougal and Leslie Ann Goldberg work outward from one simple question, whether every problem whose…0 - 2
In Our Time (radio series)The Bronze Age Collapse, first broadcast June 16, 2016
Around 1200 BC the dominant powers of the Aegean, the eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia, from Mycenaean Greece to the Hittite Empire, went through what looks like a sudden, uncontrolled collapse, and nobody is sure why. John Bennet, Linda…0 - 3
In Our Time (radio series)Zeno's Paradoxes, first broadcast September 22, 2016
Achilles can never overtake a tortoise with a head start, and an arrow in flight is never actually moving: Zeno of Elea's puzzles from the 5th century BC sound like party tricks until this episode shows why Aristotle, Aquinas and Bertrand…0 - 4
In Our Time (radio series)The Gin Craze, first broadcast December 15, 2016
Social history at its most vivid: how 18th-century Britain switched from beer to cheap spirits, and how the panic that followed produced Hogarth's Gin Lane. Angela McShane, Judith Hawley and Emma Major trace the politics behind it, from William of…0 - 5
In Our Time (radio series)Hamlet, first broadcast December 28, 2017
Shakespeare's best known, most quoted and longest play, with three Shakespeare scholars, Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter and Sonia Massai, who manage to say something fresh about it. They follow the prince who reveals his inner self to the audience while…0 - 6
In Our Time (radio series)Judith beheading Holofernes, first broadcast February 14, 2019
An art history episode built around one gruesome Bible story and the artists who kept returning to it from the Middle Ages onward. Susan Foister of the National Gallery, John Gash and Ela Nutu Hall follow Judith through versions by…0 - 7
In Our Time (radio series)Coffee, first broadcast December 12, 2019
World history told through one drink: from Ethiopia through the Ottoman Empire to the coffeehouses of 17th-century Western Europe, where caffeinated customers stayed awake longer and argued more, then on to colonial plantations worked by enslaved and…0 - 8
In Our Time (radio series)The Rosetta Stone, first broadcast February 11, 2021
The story behind one of the most famous museum objects in the world: a damaged, dark granite block from around 196 BC carrying the same text in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek. Penelope Wilson, Campbell Price and Richard Bruce Parkinson cover its…0 - 9
In Our Time (radio series)The Manhattan Project, first broadcast October 7, 2021
A tight account of how the fear that Germany, with its head start in nuclear fission, would build an atomic bomb first drove the United States into a vast engineering project led by General Groves and Robert Oppenheimer. Physicists Bruce…0 - 10
In Our Time (radio series)Thomas Hardy's Poetry, first broadcast January 13, 2022
Most readers meet Hardy through novels such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles, but once his fiction had earned him enough, he gave up novels in the 1890s and spent the rest of his life on the poetry he prized far above them, hoping to be ranked…0