In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg — broadcaster and author; chairs academic panel discussions on BBC Radio 4

Melvyn Bragg chairing a panel of three academics on a single topic for 45 minutes. The military hit rate across the catalogue is low — most episodes are intellectual, literary, or scientific history — but when the topic is a battle, a campaign, or a treatise of military theory, the academic depth is unmatched in the medium. The Schlieffen Plan, Spanish Armada, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth episodes are canonical examples.

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