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In Our Time - The Mariana Trench - BBC Sounds Misha Glenny and guests discuss the exploration of the world's deepest ocean trench.

On a ferociously dark wet morning, dive thousands of metres below sea. A fascinating feature with Misha Glenny on Radio 4! One of the deepest-dwelling creatures is a tiny white anemone You may meet giant woodlice &, everywhere', floating litter: an 'Eco-friendly' bag..
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In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.

Falstaff: Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Prince Henry: I do, I will.
(Act 2 Scene 4) (posting as I find those lines chilling 🥶) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

muddy in the park today but looking up it was more like a gothic cathedral

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Roman Arena Misha Glenny and guests discuss the origins and harsh realities of the gladiator life.

We have more gladiator news! KCL's Dr John Pearce has been catching up with Professor Kathleen Coleman and Misha Glenny on In Our Time to discuss the infinitely popular subject of gladiators and their arenas across the Roman empire.

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky

In Our Time - The Roman Arena - BBC Sounds Misha Glenny and guests discuss the origins and harsh realities of the gladiator life.

On gladiators and the bread and circuses strategy in imperial Rome www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Accidental anniversary alert as it was #onthisday 1960 that Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh became the first to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep c10,900 meters below the surface

In Our Time - The Mariana Trench - BBC Sounds Misha Glenny and guests discuss the exploration of the world's deepest ocean trench.

Come for the snailfish. Stay for the use of dynamite as a kind of sonar. Exploring life at depth in the Mariana Trench: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In Our Time - On Liberty - BBC Sounds John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.

🎧 Did you hear Prof. Helen McCabe (@drhmccabe.bsky.social) on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time show?

Helen shared her expertise on John Stuart Mill and his work 'On Liberty' with host Misha Glenny.

Listen back here ⏬
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, On Liberty John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.

We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Congratulations to (occasional In Our Time listener) Amy Poehler on her #goldenglobe podcast 🙂

In Our Time - Welcoming Misha Glenny to the In Our Time studio - BBC Sounds Misha Glenny introduces himself to you as he prepares for his first episode of In Our Time

In Our Time returns this week. Thanks for waiting patiently and/or impatiently www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas Paine's Common Sense Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.

It’s 10 years since we made this on Common Sense by Thomas Paine www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... (and since I first heard about the Schuyler Sisters lyric)

And here’s @andrewayton.bsky.social on Crecy from 2023 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today - 24/12/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

'We need to nurture those subjects which enable us to build a resource - "human ingenuity" - to interact with the technologies, politics and institutions that will shape the future'

Our President @sjs1869.bsky.social looks to the future for BBC R4 Today (from 45mins) https://bbc.in/49pus0h

In Our Time - Melvyn Bragg Meets Misha Glenny - BBC Sounds As Melvyn Bragg hands In Our Time on to Misha Glenny, they discuss its past and future

Here’s what happened when Misha met Melvyn on Today (audio available in UK on BBC Sounds) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Melvyn Bragg and Misha Glenny shake hands in the Today studio ahead of Misha’s first edition on 15th January

A happy Christmas is made of moments like this: Melvyn and Misha shaking hands in the Today studio. Thanks for listening in the past, present and future. We’re back on 15th January 🙂

For this week’s recommender, British-Turkish author Elif Shafak shares her recent cultural favourites.

Misha Glenny to present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time The much loved series returns on 15 January 2026

We’ll be back - at 09.02 on 15th January 2026 - with Misha Glenny! www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Back to baking bread after break caused by drop in demand (2 children at university and 3rd has been wearing braces til now). Kept starter alive in fridge and revived it in the last week

The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!

Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD

Here‘s the medal awarded to In Our Time. Posting this as a version of the holding-the-silver-trophy-over-head ritual. Was about to shake teapot and spray tea over everyone but had second thoughts

Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025 The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
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Celebrating at The British Academy after In Our Time wins The Presidents Medal for services to the humanities and social sciences. This wonderful photo (c)Captivate Imagery shows many of the teams behind the scenes since 1998 alongside Melvyn.

Apparently this is normal for the Thames at this time of year (downstream view)

Woke up to mist this morning, not far from the source of the Thames

Apols: Ilse Schwepcke

Glad to be a plus one at the announcement of the nominees for the first Ilse Schwepke prize for Women’s Travel Writing. Winner to be announced in Frankfurt on 17th October. Feeling: uxorious. Hoping: victorious.

1976: Robert Redford on the tension between fame and privacy Actor and director Robert Redford on the tension between fame and privacy since the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

’It‘s difficult to watch other people when they’re watching you’ - the late Robert Redford, to Melvyn in 1976 www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c98d9...

One observation: in German media, a celebration of the culture of conversation in UK academia and what flows from that.

Another. Endlessly amazed by our listeners www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...