In Our TimeIn Our TimeBBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
en-US(C) BBC 2025Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:51:30 GMTThu, 16 Jul 2026 08:45:00 GMTbbcsoundsrss.mediabbcsoundsrss@gmail.comfalseyesyeshttps://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x640/p0h5bdr7.jpghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qyklIn Our TimeArchive: CoffeeArchive: Coffeehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nx0z4j With
Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London
Markman Ellis Professor of 18th Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London
And
Jonathan Morris Professor in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Brian Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (Yale University Press, 2005)
Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte, The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (Zed Books, 2005)
Markman Ellis, The Coffee House: A Cultural History (Orion, 2004)
Ralph Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East (University of Washington Press, 1985)
Jonathan Morris, Coffee: A Global History (Reaktion, 2018)
Mark Prendergast Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed our World (Basic Books, 2010)
Claudia Roden, Coffee (Faber, 1977)
William Clarence Smith and Steven Topik (eds.), The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (first published 1935; Martino Fine Books, 2011)
Anthony Wild, Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee (Harper Perennial, 2010)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London
Markman Ellis Professor of 18th Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London
And
Jonathan Morris Professor in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Brian Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (Yale University Press, 2005)
Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte, The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (Zed Books, 2005)
Markman Ellis, The Coffee House: A Cultural History (Orion, 2004)
Ralph Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East (University of Washington Press, 1985)
Jonathan Morris, Coffee: A Global History (Reaktion, 2018)
Mark Prendergast Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed our World (Basic Books, 2010)
Claudia Roden, Coffee (Faber, 1977)
William Clarence Smith and Steven Topik (eds.), The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (first published 1935; Martino Fine Books, 2011)
Anthony Wild, Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee (Harper Perennial, 2010)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:56:52https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nx0z4jPodcastsThu, 16 Jul 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4Archive: Aphra Behn, pioneering playwright and spy.Archive: Aphra Behn, pioneering playwright and spy.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nwwkjc
This archive episode, first released in October 2017, was selected as part of a ten-episode series by Misha Glenny. In the episode, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Behn, who made her name and her living as a playwright, poet and writer of fiction during the Restoration. Virginia Woolf wrote of her: 'All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds'. Behn may well have spent some of her early life in Surinam, the setting for her novel Oroonoko, and there are records of her working in the Netherlands as a spy for Charles II. She was loyal to the Stuart kings and refused to write a poem on the coronation of William of Orange. She was regarded as an important writer in her lifetime and inspired others to write but fell out of favour for two centuries after her death when her work was seen as too bawdy, the product of a disreputable age.
With
Janet Todd
Former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University
Ros Ballaster
Professor of 18th Century Literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford
and
Claire Bowditch
Post-doctoral Research Associate in English and Drama at Loughborough University
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Reading list:
Kate Aughterson, Aphra Behn: The Comedies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Derek Hughes, The Theatre of Aphra Behn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
Derek Hughes (ed.), Versions of Blackness: Oroonoko, Race and Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Jane Spencer, Aphra Behn's Afterlife (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Janet Todd (ed.), Aphra Behn Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Janet Todd, Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (Fentum Press, 2017)
Janet Todd and Derek Hughes (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
S. J. Wiseman, Aphra Behn (Northcote House, 1996)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>
This archive episode, first released in October 2017, was selected as part of a ten-episode series by Misha Glenny. In the episode, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and times of Behn, who made her name and her living as a playwright, poet and writer of fiction during the Restoration. Virginia Woolf wrote of her: 'All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds'. Behn may well have spent some of her early life in Surinam, the setting for her novel Oroonoko, and there are records of her working in the Netherlands as a spy for Charles II. She was loyal to the Stuart kings and refused to write a poem on the coronation of William of Orange. She was regarded as an important writer in her lifetime and inspired others to write but fell out of favour for two centuries after her death when her work was seen as too bawdy, the product of a disreputable age.
With
Janet Todd
Former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University
Ros Ballaster
Professor of 18th Century Literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford
and
Claire Bowditch
Post-doctoral Research Associate in English and Drama at Loughborough University
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Reading list:
Kate Aughterson, Aphra Behn: The Comedies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Derek Hughes, The Theatre of Aphra Behn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
Derek Hughes (ed.), Versions of Blackness: Oroonoko, Race and Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Jane Spencer, Aphra Behn's Afterlife (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Janet Todd (ed.), Aphra Behn Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Janet Todd, Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (Fentum Press, 2017)
Janet Todd and Derek Hughes (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
S. J. Wiseman, Aphra Behn (Northcote House, 1996)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:52:11https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nwwkjcPodcastsThu, 09 Jul 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4SeashellsSeashellshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybkj With
Suzanne Williams Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum
Liz Harper Professor of Evolutionary Malacology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Helen Scales Marine biologist and Author.
Producer: Martha Owen
Reading list:
S. Peter Dance, Shells (DK, 2022)
A.R. Irwin, S.T. Williams, D.I. Speiser and N.W. Roberts, 'The marine gastropod Conomurex luhuanus (Strombidae) has high-resolution spatial vision and eyes with complex retinas' (Journal of Experimental Biology 225:16, 2022)
Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson, Animal Eyes (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Andreia Salvador, Interesting Shells (The Natural History Museum, 2022)
Helen Scales, Shell Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Molluscan Lives (University of Chicago Press, 2026)
Helen Scales, The Shell Spotter's Guide (National Trust Books, 2024)
Helen Scales, What a Shell Can Tell: Where They Live, What They Eat, How They Move, and More (Phaidon Press, 2022)
Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015)
Paul D. Taylor, Fossils: The Essential Guide (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Suzanne Williams Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum
Liz Harper Professor of Evolutionary Malacology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Helen Scales Marine biologist and Author.
Producer: Martha Owen
Reading list:
S. Peter Dance, Shells (DK, 2022)
A.R. Irwin, S.T. Williams, D.I. Speiser and N.W. Roberts, 'The marine gastropod Conomurex luhuanus (Strombidae) has high-resolution spatial vision and eyes with complex retinas' (Journal of Experimental Biology 225:16, 2022)
Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson, Animal Eyes (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Andreia Salvador, Interesting Shells (The Natural History Museum, 2022)
Helen Scales, Shell Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Molluscan Lives (University of Chicago Press, 2026)
Helen Scales, The Shell Spotter's Guide (National Trust Books, 2024)
Helen Scales, What a Shell Can Tell: Where They Live, What They Eat, How They Move, and More (Phaidon Press, 2022)
Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015)
Paul D. Taylor, Fossils: The Essential Guide (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:53:56https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybkjPodcastsThu, 02 Jul 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4Vigée Le BrunVigée Le Brunhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y1gt With
Rosalind Polly Blakesley Master of Pembroke College and Professor of Russian and European Art at the University of Cambridge
Robert Wenley Deputy Director of Collections and Research at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
And
Francesca Whitlum-Cooper Curator of Later Italian, Spanish and French Paintings at The National Gallery, London.
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer and Paul Lang (eds), Vigée Le Brun (exhibition catalogue in English, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016)
Joseph Baillio et al., Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: 1755-1842 (exhibition catalogue in French, Grand Palais, Paris, 2015/16)
Rosalind P. Blakesley, Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2023), especially chapter 8 'The Triumphant Refugee'
Lucy Davies, Vigée Le Brun: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (National Gallery Global, 2025)
Angelica Goodden, The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1997)
Franny Moyle, Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists (Apollo, 2025)
Jordana Pomeroy, Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Getty Publications, 2025)
Mary D. Sheriff, The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Paris Spies-Gans, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 (Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University Press London, 2022)
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (trans. Sian Evans), The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (Camden Press, 1989)
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (first published 1869; Tredition Classics, 2012)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Rosalind Polly Blakesley Master of Pembroke College and Professor of Russian and European Art at the University of Cambridge
Robert Wenley Deputy Director of Collections and Research at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
And
Francesca Whitlum-Cooper Curator of Later Italian, Spanish and French Paintings at The National Gallery, London.
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer and Paul Lang (eds), Vigée Le Brun (exhibition catalogue in English, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016)
Joseph Baillio et al., Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: 1755-1842 (exhibition catalogue in French, Grand Palais, Paris, 2015/16)
Rosalind P. Blakesley, Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2023), especially chapter 8 'The Triumphant Refugee'
Lucy Davies, Vigée Le Brun: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (National Gallery Global, 2025)
Angelica Goodden, The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1997)
Franny Moyle, Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists (Apollo, 2025)
Jordana Pomeroy, Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Getty Publications, 2025)
Mary D. Sheriff, The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Paris Spies-Gans, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 (Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University Press London, 2022)
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (trans. Sian Evans), The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (Camden Press, 1989)
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Souvenirs de Madame Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (first published 1869; Tredition Classics, 2012)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:56:51https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y1gtPodcastsThu, 25 Jun 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4The Delian LeagueThe Delian Leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xp5l With
Leah Lazar Lecturer in Hellenistic Culture at the University of Manchester
Polly Low Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham
And
Paul Cartledge AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge
Producer: Martha Owen
Aristophanes (trans. David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein), The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics, 2003)
Mary Beard, The Parthenon (Profile Books, 2010)
M. Canevaro and D. M. Lewis, 'Between 'The Character of the Athenian Empire' and The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (and beyond): The Popularity of the Athenian Empire Revisited' (Polis 41:1, 2024)
Paul Cartledge, Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Lisa Kallet and John H. Kroll, The Athenian Empire: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Leah Lazar, Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Polly Low (ed.), The Athenian Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
Malcolm F. McGregor, The Athenians and their Empire (UBC Press, 1987)
Robin Osborne (ed. and trans.), The Athenian Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
P. J. Rhodes, The Athenian Empire (Clarendon Press, 1985)
Thucydides (trans. Robin Waterfield, introduced by Polly Low), The History of the Peloponnesian War (Basic Books, 2025)
Thucydides (ed. Robert B Strassler), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (Free Press, 1998)
Thucydides (trans. Rex Warner), History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin Books, 2000)
Thucydides (trans. Martin Hammond), The Peloponnesian War (Oxford University Press, 2009)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Leah Lazar Lecturer in Hellenistic Culture at the University of Manchester
Polly Low Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham
And
Paul Cartledge AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge
Producer: Martha Owen
Aristophanes (trans. David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein), The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics, 2003)
Mary Beard, The Parthenon (Profile Books, 2010)
M. Canevaro and D. M. Lewis, 'Between 'The Character of the Athenian Empire' and The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (and beyond): The Popularity of the Athenian Empire Revisited' (Polis 41:1, 2024)
Paul Cartledge, Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Lisa Kallet and John H. Kroll, The Athenian Empire: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Leah Lazar, Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Polly Low (ed.), The Athenian Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
Malcolm F. McGregor, The Athenians and their Empire (UBC Press, 1987)
Robin Osborne (ed. and trans.), The Athenian Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
P. J. Rhodes, The Athenian Empire (Clarendon Press, 1985)
Thucydides (trans. Robin Waterfield, introduced by Polly Low), The History of the Peloponnesian War (Basic Books, 2025)
Thucydides (ed. Robert B Strassler), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (Free Press, 1998)
Thucydides (trans. Rex Warner), History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin Books, 2000)
Thucydides (trans. Martin Hammond), The Peloponnesian War (Oxford University Press, 2009)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:55:07https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xp5lPodcastsThu, 18 Jun 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4The Evolution of TreesThe Evolution of Treeshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x5jl With
Jenny McElwain 1711 Chair of Botany at Trinity College Dublin and Director of Trinity Botanic Gardens
Christopher Berry Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Cardiff University
And
Bill Baker Senior Researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Produced by Conor Garrett
Reading list:
David Beerling: The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Oxford University Press, 2008)
C.M. Berry, 'Palaeobotany: The Rise of the Earth's Early Forests' (Current Biology 29, 2019)
Christopher M. Berry and John E.A. Marshall, 'Lycopsid forests in the early Late Devonian paleoequatorial zone of Svalbard' (Geology 43:12, 2015)
N.S. Davies, W.J. McMahon and C.M. Berry, 'Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England' (J. Geol. Soc. 181, 2024)
P. Geisen and C.M. Berry, 'Reconstruction and Growth of the Early Tree Calamophyton (Pseudosporochnales, Cladoxylopsida) Based on Exceptionally Complete Specimens from Lindlar, Germany (Mid-Devonian): Organic Connection of Calamophyton Branches and Duisbergia Trunks' (International Journal of Plant Sciences 174 (4), 2013)
A. Groover and Q. Cronk (eds), Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Angiosperm Trees: Plant Genetics and Genomics (Crops and Models, vol 21. Springer, 2017), especially 'The Evolution of Angiosperm Trees: From Palaeobotany to Genomics' by Q.C.B. Cronk and F. Forest
Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian Glasspool, Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Harriet Rix, The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World (Vintage, 2026)
W.E. Stein et al., 'Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris roots signal revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests' (Current biology, 30:3, 2020) pp.421-431
William E. Stein, Christopher Mark Berry, Linda VanAller Hernick and Frank Mannolini 'Surprisingly complex community discovered in the mid-Devonian fossil forest at Gilboa' (Nature 483, 7387, 2012)
Max Telford, The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle (John Murray, 2026)
K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwain, The Evolution of Plants (Oxford University Press, 2014)
James Woodford, The Wollemi Pine: The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil from the Age of the Dinosaurs (The Text Publishing Company, 2005)
Alexandre R. Zuntini et al, 'Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms' (Nature vol. 629, April 2024)
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Jenny McElwain 1711 Chair of Botany at Trinity College Dublin and Director of Trinity Botanic Gardens
Christopher Berry Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Cardiff University
And
Bill Baker Senior Researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Produced by Conor Garrett
Reading list:
David Beerling: The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Oxford University Press, 2008)
C.M. Berry, 'Palaeobotany: The Rise of the Earth's Early Forests' (Current Biology 29, 2019)
Christopher M. Berry and John E.A. Marshall, 'Lycopsid forests in the early Late Devonian paleoequatorial zone of Svalbard' (Geology 43:12, 2015)
N.S. Davies, W.J. McMahon and C.M. Berry, 'Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England' (J. Geol. Soc. 181, 2024)
P. Geisen and C.M. Berry, 'Reconstruction and Growth of the Early Tree Calamophyton (Pseudosporochnales, Cladoxylopsida) Based on Exceptionally Complete Specimens from Lindlar, Germany (Mid-Devonian): Organic Connection of Calamophyton Branches and Duisbergia Trunks' (International Journal of Plant Sciences 174 (4), 2013)
A. Groover and Q. Cronk (eds), Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Angiosperm Trees: Plant Genetics and Genomics (Crops and Models, vol 21. Springer, 2017), especially 'The Evolution of Angiosperm Trees: From Palaeobotany to Genomics' by Q.C.B. Cronk and F. Forest
Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian Glasspool, Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Harriet Rix, The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World (Vintage, 2026)
W.E. Stein et al., 'Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris roots signal revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests' (Current biology, 30:3, 2020) pp.421-431
William E. Stein, Christopher Mark Berry, Linda VanAller Hernick and Frank Mannolini 'Surprisingly complex community discovered in the mid-Devonian fossil forest at Gilboa' (Nature 483, 7387, 2012)
Max Telford, The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle (John Murray, 2026)
K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwain, The Evolution of Plants (Oxford University Press, 2014)
James Woodford, The Wollemi Pine: The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil from the Age of the Dinosaurs (The Text Publishing Company, 2005)
Alexandre R. Zuntini et al, 'Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms' (Nature vol. 629, April 2024)
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:54:43https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x5jlPodcastsThu, 04 Jun 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4The Welsh MarchesThe Welsh Marcheshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wt1v With
Rhun Emlyn Lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University
Helen Fulton Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol
And
Huw Pryce Emeritus Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
R. R. Davies, The Age of Conquest: Wales 1063-1415 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
R.R. Davies, Lordship and Society in the March of Wales 1282-1400 (Oxford University Press, 1978)
John Fleming, The Welsh Marcher Lordships II: South-West (Logaston Press, 2023)
Ben Giles, The Welsh Marches: 40 Town and Country Walks (Pocket Mountains, 2012)
Philip Hume, The Welsh Marcher Lordships I: Central & North (Logaston Press, 2021)
Max Lieberman, The March of Wales, 1067–1300: A Borderland of Medieval Britain (University of Wales Press, 2018)
Max Lieberman, The Medieval March of Wales: The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066-1283 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
D. Huw Owen, The Lordship of Denbigh 1282-1543 (University of Wales Press, 2024)
Mike Parker, All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between (HarperNorth, 2024)
Dewi Roberts, Both Sides of the Border: An Anthology of Writing on the Welsh Border Region (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch/Eagle Rock Press, 1998)
Christopher Somerville, The Welsh Borders (Philips, 1991)
David Stephenson, Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March: One Family's Story (University of Wales Press, 2021)
David Walker, Medieval Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Rhun Emlyn Lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University
Helen Fulton Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol
And
Huw Pryce Emeritus Professor of Welsh History at Bangor University
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Reading list:
R. R. Davies, The Age of Conquest: Wales 1063-1415 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
R.R. Davies, Lordship and Society in the March of Wales 1282-1400 (Oxford University Press, 1978)
John Fleming, The Welsh Marcher Lordships II: South-West (Logaston Press, 2023)
Ben Giles, The Welsh Marches: 40 Town and Country Walks (Pocket Mountains, 2012)
Philip Hume, The Welsh Marcher Lordships I: Central & North (Logaston Press, 2021)
Max Lieberman, The March of Wales, 1067–1300: A Borderland of Medieval Britain (University of Wales Press, 2018)
Max Lieberman, The Medieval March of Wales: The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066-1283 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
D. Huw Owen, The Lordship of Denbigh 1282-1543 (University of Wales Press, 2024)
Mike Parker, All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between (HarperNorth, 2024)
Dewi Roberts, Both Sides of the Border: An Anthology of Writing on the Welsh Border Region (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch/Eagle Rock Press, 1998)
Christopher Somerville, The Welsh Borders (Philips, 1991)
David Stephenson, Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March: One Family's Story (University of Wales Press, 2021)
David Walker, Medieval Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:51:39https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wt1vPodcastsThu, 28 May 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4The LevellersThe Levellershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wkhq With
Teresa Bejan Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford
Ted Vallance Professor of History and Dean of Research and Doctoral Study at the University of Roehampton
And
Clare Jackson Honorary Professor of Early Modern History and Walter Grant Scott Fellow in History at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Producer: Martha Owen
Reading list:
Teresa M. Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap Press, forthcoming in 2026)
Michael Braddick, The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Rachel Foxley, The Levellers; Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (Penguin, 1972)
Ann Hughes, Gender and the English Revolution (Routledge, 2011)
John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650 (Verso Books, 2016)
John Rees (ed.), John Lilburne and the Levellers: Reappraising the Roots of English Radicalism 400 years on (Routledge, 2017), including 'Reborn John: The Eighteenth-Century Afterlife of John Lilburne' by Edward Vallance
Andrew Sharp (ed.), The English Levellers (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Edward Vallance, A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms (Abacus, 2010)
Blair Worden, Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and The Passions of Posterity (Penguin, 2002)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]> With
Teresa Bejan Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford
Ted Vallance Professor of History and Dean of Research and Doctoral Study at the University of Roehampton
And
Clare Jackson Honorary Professor of Early Modern History and Walter Grant Scott Fellow in History at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Producer: Martha Owen
Reading list:
Teresa M. Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap Press, forthcoming in 2026)
Michael Braddick, The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Rachel Foxley, The Levellers; Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (Penguin, 1972)
Ann Hughes, Gender and the English Revolution (Routledge, 2011)
John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650 (Verso Books, 2016)
John Rees (ed.), John Lilburne and the Levellers: Reappraising the Roots of English Radicalism 400 years on (Routledge, 2017), including 'Reborn John: The Eighteenth-Century Afterlife of John Lilburne' by Edward Vallance
Andrew Sharp (ed.), The English Levellers (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Edward Vallance, A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms (Abacus, 2010)
Blair Worden, Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and The Passions of Posterity (Penguin, 2002)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.]]>00:55:03https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wkhqPodcastsThu, 21 May 2026 08:45:00 GMTBBC Radio 4Important Update – See DescriptionImportant Update – See Descriptionhttps://bbcsoundsrss.mediaImportant Update About This Podcast
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Hello, peeps.
This is an unoffical podcast that relies on BBC Sounds and is hosted outside the UK. The BBC has announced major changes to Sounds, primarily restricting access to listeners within the UK. More details can be found here:
I'm looking at a few options to keep this service running as smoothly as possible even after the changes. However, I won’t know how feasible that is until they take effect. There’s no official timeline, so it may happen suddenly—one day, the podcast could simply stop updating.
I'll only put updates like this one in this podcast feed if they are critical. For more frequent updates on the status of the service, visit bbcsoundsrss.media.
If you have any questions or are interested in running the software yourself, feel free to email me at bbcsoundsrss@gmail.com, and I can point you in the right direction!
It's not necessarily goodbye—I just wanted to share this update so you're aware of the situation.
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