What is left as a podcast, is the latest edition, which is about Tacitus. Host Melvyn Bragg writes in his newsletter: "I fear I’ll be accused of being the man who asked three women scholars to talk about the finer, or rather the grosser, details of Roman sexuality. I’m sure you’ll accept that I simply did it in the interests of a fuller description of what Tacitus was meaning! And that’s true (no exclamation mark)." However, this is a very minor detail in the program and the guests storm through it admirably.What remains is the historian who delivers us the template for Gibbon's Decline and Fall, the first sources about the tribes in Central Europe and the intricacies of being a senator in Rome. Even if Rome is eternally in decline, it never seems to fade and stop standing as a measure for western civilization.
More In Our Time:
John Donne (The Metaphysical Poets),
The Arab Conquests,
BBC's In Our Time (podcast review),
General review of In Our Time,
Library of Nineveh.
2 comments:
Is there any way of capturing IOT broadcasts as MP3 including the archives?
To the best of my knowledge, the streams from the BBC cannot be captured. It is something my readers and myself widely complain about. (see the series of comments here)
There is only one way to get MP3's of In Our Time and that is by subscribing to the podcast, diligently download the episodes each week and store them for posterity. (feed) Needless to say this works only for future episodes. For the archives you have only the streams...
Anne
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