In Our TimeEpisodes Available now
The Battle of Antietam
The American Civil War battle that prompted Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Archive: Feathered Dinosaurs
Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on evidence of dinosaur feathers.
Megalosaurus
The 'great lizard' that changed how we understood the history of life on our planet.
Archive: Citizen Kane
A classic episode on Citizen Kane, the film that changed cinema.
Casablanca
The classic 1942 movie that convinced Americans the Second World War was worth fighting.
Particle Accelerators
The enormous machines that seek to answer the fundamental questions about our universe.
Archive: Erasmus
Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on the humanist scholar Erasmus.
Thomas More's Utopia
How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.
Archive: The Measurement of Time
Misha Glenny selects a classic episode from the archive on how humans have measured time.
Archive: Trinity
Misha Glenny picks a classic In Our Time episode: the Trinity, a key Christian doctrine.
