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.. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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

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

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

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/...

🎧 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 ⏬ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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

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...

'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

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

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.

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

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! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

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

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.

’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...

Lots of thoughts when reading tributes to In Our Time in other languages www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/melvy...

Thank you @brandyjensen.bsky.social

I see I’ve written ‘Wednesday’ as if that’s not yesterday 🙄. One of those weeks where so much happens that an hour seems like a day. Oh well. I’m passing on any messages so thanks for emailing them or posting them here (or elsewhere)

So many tributes to Melvyn since Wednesday and I was especially moved by Esther Rantzen and her reference to Joni Mitchell and Big Yellow Taxi (Don't it always seem to go/ That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?) but not for the obvious reason.

Slightly short of words today but happy to echo this from John who, with Teresa and Phil, slipped in under the wire for what turned out to be a fitting close. Great edition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On a ferry across the Baltic and saw this retro French ad for constipation remedies (underneath the children’s burgers) and something in it immediately reminded me of a very brief encounter with Jane Birkin many years ago

My co-worker this afternoon

To celebrate I've updated my Dewey Decimal Classification of the series to include the latest episodes: feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2022/02/cata...

Thanks for including us in your list @dockterman.bsky.social it means a lot

Time + of all time + in our time = time to listen time.com/collections/...

Oh, all civil-looking, but you just know they were on the Luther Insulter just as you were offering tea or coffee. ergofabulous.org/luther/?

We no longer have the shorter repeats on Thursday evenings but a full repeat on Sunday. Can’t say I miss taking 14 minutes out of a 42 minute discussion and doing that to a tight deadline, though I did like the echo effect

If you missed our episode of In Our Time on civility (and can't wait for the rebroadcasts tonight and Sunday), you can catch the extended version on BBC Sounds here. I won't spoiler you on my tea or coffee order save to say that I was delighted it was the same as Melvyn's.

An honor and a pleasure to meet @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social at last and to talk about the slipperiest of topics, civility!

DPIR's ‪@tmbejan.bsky.social joins Melvyn Bragg and guests on BBC Radio4's In Our Time to discuss ideas around our understanding of the meaning of civility: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

From Hobbes to Locke to Rawls: ideas on enduring the value of (the best kind of) civility in public and private conversations www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Was amazing to be part of BBC R4's In Our Time talking about all things Dragon 🐲 If you want to know more about the Chinese zodiac, rain dragons, and The Dragon Boat Festival, you can listen online! 🐉 #inourtime #herebedragons #BBCRadio4

And delighted to be reminded of this by Uccello which I think was on the cover of the Fanthorpe collection and which I often see in part, in passing, on the Charing Cross Bakerloo platform www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pa...

Also delighted to recall Not My Best Side from Ursula Fanthorpe www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/not-my... (which I recited at a verse reading competition at school)

Since Eliane suggested we discuss dragons I’ve been seeing them everywhere (and wondering how many saints killed dragons other than George) - this one was in Mulhouse www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...