19th Century - Browse the 19th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
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Page 1 of 7
· Vincent van Gogh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
21 Dec 2023
56:02
· Chartism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
09 Feb 2023
51:01
· The Great Stink
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
29 Dec 2022
50:12
· Persuasion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
22 Dec 2022
50:49
· The Morant Bay Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
03 Nov 2022
53:42
· Berthe Morisot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
13 Oct 2022
1:00:20
· Hegel's Philosophy of History
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
26 May 2022
52:25
· Peter Kropotkin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid
24 Feb 2022
51:53
· The Temperance Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
03 Feb 2022
52:25
· The Gold Standard
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
20 Jan 2022
49:00
· Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
13 Jan 2022
50:43
· A Christmas Carol
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
16 Dec 2021
56:18
· The Battle of Trafalgar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.
02 Dec 2021
51:57
· The Decadent Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
18 Nov 2021
51:22
· The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
30 Sep 2021
49:33
· Booth's Life and Labour Survey
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.
10 Jun 2021
48:47
· David Ricardo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
25 Mar 2021
49:51
· George and Robert Stephenson (repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
26 Mar 2020
· George Sand
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
06 Feb 2020
54:57
· The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
16 Jan 2020
52:05
· Crime and Punishment
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
14 Nov 2019
52:40
· The Time Machine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
17 Oct 2019
51:55
· The Rapture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
26 Sep 2019
51:14
· Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
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· President Ulysses S Grant
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
30 May 2019
55:12
· Kinetic Theory
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
23 May 2019
51:38
· Bergson and Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
09 May 2019
51:20
· The Great Irish Famine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
04 Apr 2019
57:19
· Gerard Manley Hopkins
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
21 Mar 2019
47:39
· The Poor Laws
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poor Law of 1834 and the rise of the workhouse
20 Dec 2018
50:18
· William Morris
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
05 Jul 2018
53:10
· The Mexican-American War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 war that cost Mexico half its territory.
28 Jun 2018
49:06
· Henrik Ibsen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
31 May 2018
49:51
· The Emancipation of the Serfs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the freeing of a third of Russians from serfdom in 1861.
17 May 2018
49:54
· Middlemarch
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
19 Apr 2018
51:49
· George and Robert Stephenson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
12 Apr 2018
50:25
· Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.
22 Mar 2018
50:51
· The Highland Clearances
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss evictions and migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
08 Mar 2018
51:08
· Frederick Douglass
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Frederick Douglass, born to slavery.
08 Feb 2018
52:22
· Beethoven
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
21 Dec 2017
50:13
· Moby Dick
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.
07 Dec 2017
51:00
· Carl Friedrich Gauss
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
30 Nov 2017
49:05
· Germaine de Stael
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.
16 Nov 2017
49:57
· The Congress of Vienna
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15.
19 Oct 2017
48:51
· Wuthering Heights
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.
28 Sep 2017
49:31
· Eugene Onegin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.
22 Jun 2017
49:27
· The American Populists
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rural protest movement in America's Gilded Age.
15 Jun 2017
49:52
· Louis Pasteur
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
18 May 2017
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· Emily Dickinson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
11 May 2017
48:30
· Hokusai
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
30 Mar 2017
48:07
· North and South
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
09 Mar 2017
48:01
· John Clare
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.
09 Feb 2017
48:15
· Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
12 Jan 2017
48:03
· Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
01 Dec 2016
49:32
· The Fighting Temeraire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
10 Nov 2016
45:58
· The Invention of Photography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
07 Jul 2016
48:46
· The Corn Laws
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
24 Oct 2013
41:52
· The Berlin Conference
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
31 Oct 2013
42:03
· Social Darwinism
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
20 Feb 2014
41:41
· Rudyard Kipling
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
16 Oct 2014
45:44
· Brunel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
13 Nov 2014
44:44
· Behavioural Ecology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
11 Dec 2014
45:35
· The California Gold Rush
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
02 Apr 2015
45:52
· Fanny Burney
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.
23 Apr 2015
44:25
· The Lancashire Cotton Famine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lancashire cotton famine during the American Civil War
14 May 2015
45:12
· Utilitarianism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
11 Jun 2015
43:00
· Jane Eyre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.
18 Jun 2015
43:00
· Frederick the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
02 Jul 2015
43:00
· Perpetual Motion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
24 Sep 2015
43:00
· Emma
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.
19 Nov 2015
43:00
· Michael Faraday
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
24 Dec 2015
43:00
· Chromatography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
04 Feb 2016
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· Aurora Leigh
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
24 Mar 2016
46:52
· The Sikh Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
07 Apr 2016
44:57
· Capitalism
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.
24 Jun 1999
30:00
· Humboldt
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
28 Sep 2006
45:00
· Anarchism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political creed of Anarchism.
07 Dec 2006
45:00
· Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People.
20 Oct 2011
41:57
· Logic
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
21 Oct 2010
45:00
· Kierkegaard
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
20 Mar 2008
45:00
· Bohemianism
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Parisian philosophy of life lived for art.
09 Oct 2003
45:00
· Chemical Elements
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
25 May 2000
45:00
· Archaeology and Imperialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between archaeology and imperialism.
14 Apr 2005
45:00
· Darwin: On the Origin of Species Darwin: In Our Time
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
07 Jan 2009
45:00
· Anaesthetics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.
29 Mar 2007
45:00
· Bismarck
Melvyn Bragg discusses the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck.
22 Mar 2007
45:00
· Marx
The life and ideas of Karl Marx who changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.
14 Jul 2005
45:00
· 1848: Year of Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw Europe engulfed in revolution.
19 Jan 2012
45:00
· Darwin: Life After Origins Darwin: In Our Time
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
08 Jan 2009
45:00
· Immunisation
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation and its impact on society.
20 Apr 2006
45:00
· Ada Lovelace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
06 Mar 2008
45:00
· Bolivar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
30 Oct 2008
45:00
· Heritage
Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between heritage culture and the study of history.
18 Jul 2002
45:00
· Mill
The life and ideas of the 19th century political philosopher John Stuart Mill.
18 May 2006
45:00
· Madame Bovary
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1857 trial of Gustave Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary
12 Jul 2007
45:00
· Dickens
The achievements and legacy of the 19th century literary giant Charles Dickens.
12 Jul 2001
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· Electrickery
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
04 Nov 2004
45:00
· Altruism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
23 Nov 2006
45:00
· Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin: In Our Time
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
06 Jan 2009
45:00
· Maxwell
The work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist James Clerk Maxwell.
02 Oct 2003
45:00
· Genetic Determinism
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
23 Sep 1999
30:00
· Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.
30 Dec 2010
45:00
· Custer's Last Stand
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand.
19 May 2011
45:00
· Gothic
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
04 Jan 2001
45:00
· John Ruskin
The life and work of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
31 Mar 2005
45:00
· Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin Darwin: In Our Time
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
05 Jan 2009
45:00
· Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
06 Jan 2011
45:00
· Munch and The Scream
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream.
18 Mar 2010
45:00
· Napoleon and Wellington
The comparative histories of two titans of 19th century history.
25 Oct 2001
45:00
· Nihilism
The history of the philosophy that claims that truths are illusory.
16 Nov 2000
45:00
· Oscar Wilde
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.
06 Dec 2001
45:00
· Pragmatism
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the American philosophy of pragmatism.
17 Nov 2005
45:00
· Radiation
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
12 Nov 2009
45:00
· Rutherford
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
19 Feb 2004
45:00
· Schopenhauer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
29 Oct 2009
45:00
· Sensation
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novels of sensation, a Victorian literary phenomenon.
06 Nov 2003
45:00
· Silas Marner
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
28 Jan 2010
45:00
· Suffragism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss suffragism, the movement for women's voting rights.
16 Apr 2009
45:00
· Tennyson's In Memoriam
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
30 Jun 2011
42:06
· The Age of Doubt
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
09 Mar 2000
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· The American West
Melvyn Bragg explores the myths and harsh reality of the 19th century American pioneers.
13 Jun 2002
45:00
· The British Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ethos and legacy of the British Empire.
08 Nov 2001
45:00
· The Brothers Grimm
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
05 Feb 2009
45:00
· The Cavendish Family in Science
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the scientific achievements of the Cavendish family.
20 May 2010
45:00
· The City - a history, part 2
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the city.
01 Apr 2010
45:00
· The Dreyfus Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dreyfus Affair, which tore France apart in the 1890s.
08 Oct 2009
45:00
· The East India Company
The history of the private trading company that helped forge the British Empire.
26 Jun 2003
45:00
· The Enclosures of the 18th Century
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
01 May 2008
45:00
· The French Revolution's Legacy
The impact and legacy of the French Revolution on European culture and politics.
14 Jun 2001
45:00
· The Great Exhibition of 1851
Melvyn Bragg examines the exhibition that showcased Victorian Britain's industrial might.
27 Apr 2006
45:00
· The Great Reform Act
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832.
27 Nov 2008
45:00
· The Indian Mutiny
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion which followed
18 Feb 2010
45:00
· The Industrial Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.
23 Dec 2010
45:00
· The Later Romantics
Melvyn Bragg examines the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.
15 Apr 2004
45:00
· The Novel
Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the development and the future of the novel.
11 Nov 1999
30:00
· The Opium Wars
Melvyn Bragg discusses the 19th century Opium Wars between Britain and China.
12 Apr 2007
45:00
· The Oxford Movement
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Catholic movement within the Church of England.
13 Apr 2006
45:00
· The Peterloo Massacre
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and the brutality of the British state.
15 Dec 2005
45:00
· The Poincaré Conjecture
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
02 Nov 2006
45:00
· The Romantics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.
12 Oct 2000
45:00
· The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3 In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
06 Jan 2010
45:00
· The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
16 Dec 2004
45:00
· The Statue of Liberty
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .
14 Feb 2008
45:00
· The Taiping Rebellion
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.
24 Feb 2011
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· The War of 1812
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the War of 1812 between America and Great Britain.
31 Jan 2013
42:09
· The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Nation.
15 Apr 2010
45:00
· Thomas Edison
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
09 Dec 2010
45:00
· Thoreau and the American Idyll
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
15 Jan 2009
45:00
· Tolstoy
Melvyn Bragg explores the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
25 Apr 2002
45:00
· Tsar Alexander II's assassination
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.
06 Jan 2005
45:00
· Uncle Tom's Cabin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century anti-slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
08 Jun 2006
45:00
· Victorian Pessimism
Melvyn Bragg discusses the high pessimism of Victorian culture.
10 May 2007
30:00
· Victorian Realism
Melvyn Bragg explores Victorian realism and its focus on the ordinariness of life.
14 Nov 2002
45:00
· Wagner
Melvyn Bragg examines the position of Richard Wagner and his music in German culture.
20 Jun 2002
45:00
· Wilberforce
Melvyn Bragg examines the life of anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce.
22 Feb 2007
45:00
· William Hazlitt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the essayist William Hazlitt.
08 Apr 2010
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