In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
[1] From 6 April 2000, with the discussion on "The Natural Order", the programme moved from 30 minutes to a 45-minute format.
In 2005 listeners were invited to vote in a poll for the greatest philosopher in history.
The winner was the subject of the final programme before the summer break.
The result of the vote was:[2] From the start of 2016 (Saturn) the podcast version of the programme started to include a few minutes of unbroadcast extra material, which would generally be prompted by the question So, what did we miss?