In Our Time
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world. History fans can learn about pivotal wars and societal upheavals, such as the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Sack of Rome in 1527, and the politica
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“And at the end of that period of time, and we could talk about Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bleeding Kansas, the Harper's Ferry, but that end is one of the key Points for me, and that's the Dred Scott decision”
“go on to write a narrative of the life and times of Frederick Douglass”
“Antitom is often called Crossroads of Freedom. That's what Jim McPherson titled his book”
“when most people had a Bible in their home, when most people y turned to the Bible, not just for questions of morality, but also for questions about Science about nature”
“one of the earliest um descriptions and illustrations of a fossil was in um Robert Plott's A Natural History of Oxfordshire”
“Buckland very famously, uh, in the decade after he announces Megalosaurus. He's commissioned to write. A Bridgewater Treatise”
“who wrote the book The God Particle, also like to quip that he should have called the book The Goddamn Particle”
“his own edition of the New Testament. It came out in fifteen sixteen”
“a notable work at the time which was raised through Europe as a bestseller, we can call it that, in praise of folly”
“In fifteen sixteen A small book was published with a curious new word as its title. Utopia”
“Morris meets him outside a church after. after Math and that is an echo of the beginning of Plato's Republic”
“and this conversation and this idea is referenced by Karl Marx In Das Capital”
“he wrote the what he called the dialogue of comfort against tribulation, which is an attempt for once, rather than to have a humanist dialogue where you consider both sides and then go into dinner”
“Machiavelli publishes The Prince. To what extent is the prince in dialogue? With with more”
“Cicero's Deafies is an absolute core text, you know, this this foundational Roman text of what it what is it to be good”
“nineteen eighty four, Fahrenheit, four five one. The handmaid's tail”
“in f fifteen fifty two, so it's a year after the first English translation, there's William Baldwin writes a book called Beware the Cat”
“we get very early on, for instance, in the book of Acts, Trinitarian invocations”
“it's still actually authorized by the Book of Common Prayer to be used on certain occasions”
“go to uh not Bernard of Clairvaux but Dante at the end of the comedian. Where he has the vision of the divine”
“wrote m this marvelous book, which is the the first book of any sort we have in in English. She may have dictated it. She may have just meant she didn't know Latin, but she knew a lot of theology in this book. her showings”
“a verse in the Quran which says you know, those who believe in the Trinity are wrong”
“I've picked Jane Austen's novel Emma. described by Melvin's guests as the author's masterpiece”
“brought out a novel by an anonymous writer identified as the author of Pride and Prejudice, etcetera etcetera”
“drafts or first versions of um Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice in North Anger Abbey”
“And then finally they got to this little house, this cottage in Shawton, which um was part of the estate of her brother Edward. And um and it's at that point that she took out her manuscript, started to revise them and away she went with her career. Um with sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice in Mansfield Park”
“That was really, really important to him and he wrote about that quite openly later”
“Next week we'll be discussing the ancient Chinese warrior and philosopher Sun Tzu, known as the author of The Art of War”
“I've chosen Plato's Republic, whose claim to be the foundation text of Western philosophy is arguably stronger than all its competitors”
“which struck me as similar to the thinking of John Stuart Mills On Liberty, one of the first in our times that I recall recorded”
“The great historian Philip Kuhn wrote his book Soul Stealers about this particular phenomenon”
“He wrote a great essay, still read, called Confucius as a Reformer”
“And in this new series, we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of Homer, the Iliad, and the Odyssey”
“And in this new series, we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of Homer, the Iliad, and the Odyssey”
“Every episode I pair up a top historian with a fantastic comedian and we have a lovely, funny, fascinating chat about a different subject from world history. And in this new series, we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of Homer, the Iliad, and the Odyssey”
“Every episode I pair up a top historian with a fantastic comedian and we have a lovely, funny, fascinating chat about a different subject from world history. And in this new series, we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of Homer, the Iliad, and the Odyssey”
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