In Our Time History

Melvyn Bragg has been hosting intellectual discussions on BBC Radio 4 since 1998 and In Our Time remains one of the finest things on the internet. Three academic experts per episode, covering historical topics from Carolingian politics to the Silk Road, moderated by Bragg who somehow makes dense scholarship feel like fascinating conversation. The format is deceptively simple - just smart people talking about what they know - but the execution is consistently extraordinary. Running for over twenty-five years and still producing episodes that send you down research rabbit holes.