Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Janet Hartley, Anthony Cross and Simon Dixon to discuss the founding and flourishing of Peter the Great’s alternative to Moscow
IOT: The Building of St Petersburg from In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
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In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: Measurement of Time
The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time. Early civilisations used the movements of heavenly bodies to tell the time, then mechanical clocks emerged in Europe in the medieval period. For hundreds of years clocks were inaccurate but now atomic clocks are capable of keeping time to a second in 15 million years. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Kristen Lippincott, Former Director of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Jonathan Betts, Senior Curator of Horology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
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IOT: Schopenhauer 29 Oct 09 from In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is joined by A.C. Grayling, Beatrice Han-Pile and Christopher Janaway to discuss the dark, pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which set the tone for much twentieth century thought
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IOT: Magna Carta from In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Michael Clanchy, Nick Vincent and David Carpenter to discuss Magna Carta; the oft proclaimed foundation of English Liberties.
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