A great informational podcast but they only focus on scientific advances that took place in Europe. Quite whitewashed. Africa, South America, Asia, Russia are NEVER mentioned.

Melvyn Bragg uses unacceptable behavior with women: rude, domineering, interrupting, and foolish, useful questions. Please seek another host.

The range of fascinating topics curated by the excellent Melvin Bragg and the very-well chosen guests is a treat.

Virtually non-agenda driven scientific information. Fantastic! I maintain local copies of the entire catalogue and listen frequently. (Melvin might talk less and listen more and stop with the western religion thing.)

I enjoy the freedom from limbic high-jack techniques.

Are you a child of the 60s, eager to hear a Brit have a go at straight-faced untiring mimicry of Jim Backus's Locust Valley lockjaw? Perhaps you're a millennial, most comfortable with podcast guests whose erudition and generational solidarity are best evinced by nearly every response beginning, "So…" Climb aboard! BBC has you covered, compulsorily.

Except for the colonial British nationalism of the host, this podcast is excellent!

Thank you BBC for making this accessible to those of us outside of the UK.

These podcasts are perhaps the best I’ve heard at going deep into detail about a scientific topic and breaking down complex science into understandable concepts for the layperson. And this is all due to the host, who asks probing questions, challenges guests’ statements, and corrals wayward discussions back on topic. Though he can be condescending (more so to women guests) at times. The topics are interesting, informative, and vary across many scientific disciplines. The guests are very knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Recommended for the teacher, student, and science enthusiast.

Very informative and easy listening! My IQ increased with each podcast episode!!

Excellent on all counts.

I love this pod cast!

This host is rude and condescending to his guests.

I wish for more episodes. The last one was in May of this year. I really miss it. This show has great content. I enjoy listening to the past shows. Please create more episodes.

~ Heavy signature accents, the only distractions, lol

Absolutely brilliant.

Melvin Bragg is a host from a different era: knighted for his public radio work, a writer himself, he prepares extensively for each program and holds the guests to a much higher standard than do hosts in almost all other podcasts around these days. Yes he is direct and sometimes rude, probably more so to female guests than male guests (although it’s obvious that some of his favorites are women, eg Angie Hobbes), but at least some instances are actually maneuvers whereby he keeps the guests on topic and in check. The intelligence and articulateness of some of his repeating guests are stunning: I can spend all day listening to Marcus du Sautoy and Ian Stewart on math, Edith Hall on Ancient Greece, or Anthony Grayling on philosophy, and he brings on sometimes independent researchers with extremely unconventional and yet interesting ideas. I take notes on each program as they are so dense in contents. Dislikers can go listen to politically correct hosts politely interview a carefully curated list of racially and ethnically diverse guests (I say this as a colored woman academic), but I take In Our Time with its actual focus on intelligent inquiry and genuine curiosity any day.

Very much enjoyed this (“Hybrids” is my first exposure). This is a discussion not a lecture. This is the discussion one might want before embarking on a deep dive. Context. Some interesting anecdotal examples of this concept or that. Of course, science is also history... as ideas emerge and change shape. This is here too. Listening to these participants is easy and pleasant. A lovely balance of concision and precision of speaking/moderating with the wit and humanity that makes all good conversations pleasant. I would love to sit in a room with these people and sip some coffee and listen for hours. In fact: I plan to. The reading list is useful. Execution is excellent (technically... sound quality etc). What world where I can listen to things like this! Thank you so much. Can’t wait to listen again. H in Texas USA. Again: Thank you all so much.

Thank you so much for your podcasts. I am trying to learn about physics and astronomy on my own. Obviously, I can only comprehend a very small portion of what the guests are talking about but every bit counts. However, they are a great supplement to readings and documentaries. I also download other episodes that do not fall into those two categories but I find interesting as well. This inquisitive American thanks the BBS (BBC! Sorry, I have my left hand in a cast. The BBC is world renowned) so very much for such informative podcasts and apologize for the Kardashians for dumbing down the world.

Every episode fascinating

Great program!

If you’re a naturally curious person this is for you. A truly wonderful program.

This podcast covers a wide range of scientific topics, particularly on how we got to know what we know. It surveys areas of science and the history of scientists and discoveries, philosophies, and historic thinking. The host discusses these things with experts who lay out the thoughts and events that produced our modern society. This is an eye opening podcast, along with other "In Our Time" podcasts. One learns both how much there is to know, and how little one does know. But you have to start some time; it might as well be now.

Very good podcast. A vibrant mix of very good science with the more important missing element of the history of how the science came to be and the very human element of the way ordinary people did extraordinary things. Highly recommend for either a novice who's only back ground in science is curiosity or a complete science geek such as I. Enjoyable for all.

I love these frank conversations and discussions on everything science. There is often history of science and philosophy which is an excellent as well!

Thank you!

Melvyn Bragg and the BBC team portfolio coverage of topics is fascinating - even when one might not naturally be interested - "Euclid's Elements". The format is brilliant, working with a panel of 3 x esteemed academics on the subject of the day. Melvyn Bragg runs an extraordinarily tight, well researched / well prepared intelligent, educational and fascinating ship. Cannot get enough.

I have never found a show that explores scientific ideas and ideas so deeply. It's by far my favorite podcast. MJ New York City

Great topics, wonderful host. My favorite science podcast- the perfect binge listen!

Of these highly entertaining and educational shows.

Wow; these people are smart and fun to listen to. Cool job, the narrator has: talking with experts about very cool topics, hours at a time. Gotta love the Brit accents too. Excellent show. Im thankful I found it. Please keep it up....