Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of lungs and of the first breaths, which can be traced back 400 million years to when animal life spread from rock pools and swamps onto land, as some fish found an evolutionary advantage in getting their oxygen from air rather than w ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the decisive role of one of the great 20th Century physicists in solving the question of nuclear fission. It is said that Meitner (1878-1968) made this breakthrough over Christmas 1938 while she was sitting on a log in Sweden during a snowy walk wi ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics. The Poetics is, as far as we know, the first ever work of literary theory. Written in the 4th century BC, it is the work of a scholar who was also a biologist, and treats literary works with the detached analytical eye of a ...  Show more

Zur 150. Episode von Slow German wird es Zeit, über die zwei größten Dichter Deutschlands zu sprechen: Schiller und Goethe. Man kann sich die beiden so vorstellen: Goethe war der bereits damals berühmte und verehrte alte Mann, und Schiller war sein Fan. Schauen wir uns die beiden ...  Show more

Zur 150. Episode von Slow German wird es Zeit, über die zwei größten Dichter Deutschlands zu sprechen: Schiller und Goethe. Man kann sich die beiden so vorstellen: Goethe war der bereits damals berühmte und verehrte alte Mann, und Schiller war sein Fan. Schauen wir uns die beiden ...  Show more

After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this second of his cho ...