List of In Our Time programmes

In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Since 2011, all episodes have been available to download as individual podcasts.

1999–2000
From 6 April 2000, with the discussion on "The Natural Order", the programme moved from 30 minutes to a 45-minute format.

2004–2005
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 result of the vote was:
 * 1) Karl Marx (with 27.9% of the votes)
 * 2) David Hume (12.7%)
 * 3) Ludwig Wittgenstein (6.8%)
 * 4) Friedrich Nietzsche (6.5%)
 * 5) Plato (5.6%)
 * 6) Immanuel Kant (5.6%)
 * 7) Thomas Aquinas (4.8%)
 * 8) Socrates (4.8%)
 * 9) Aristotle (4.5%)
 * 10) Karl Popper (4.2%)

2015–2016
From the start of 2016 (Saturn) the podcast version of the programme started to include a few minutes of unbroadcast extra material, which would generally be prompted by the question So, what did we miss?

2019–2020
The 2019–2020 series was truncated because of the COVID-19 pandemic.