With Melvyn Bragg retiring, @tomwhyman.bsky.social introduced me to the best episode of In Our Time where Bragg just kicks off at the guest historian for --reasons--. (Skip to 14:40 if you don't have the patience to listen to the whole thing.) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
“I can defend myself, thank you very much” 👊
Amazing man
I do enjoy the ones where Melvyn is obviously enjoying it and where he challenges some of the more “academic” points and gets them out of their ivory towers.
Cheers. That was great. We’ll miss Melvyn.
Is that the one where he thumps the table because she won’t agree that the Indus Revolution happened because of Great Men?
Great British Men.
Melvyn Bragg is retiring??? Damn, what an end of an era. I will sorely miss his berating of academics for not getting to the point and quibbling...
Thanks Jim, you highlighted an example of the barge! bsky.app/profile/alan...
Sounds like the discussion could at least have done with a social historian who could have knocked on the head that comparison/contrast with late-eighteenth century Japan.
Just marvellous.
'People don't just create steam engines for the fun of it' MB: 'Well sometimes they do'
Has the person who said that never met a middle age man with time for hobbies?
A real long, thought out and reasoned point vs "no, I don't think so"
….so who will be the new host? Amol Rajan?
I'm nominating @gregjenner.bsky.social!
Can I suggest he just sticks with Uni Challenge. He would be difficult to keep quiet which Melvyn knew how to do consummately when the programme was flowing
Not funny! 😨
Oh no. I hadn’t thought of this before but it makes sense 😭
Matt Goodwin!
Boom!
I could have said Michael Gove…
Or Boris Johnson? [Funnily enough Badloss went through my mind earlier today but my reply didn't lend itself to sarcasm!] bsky.app/profile/alan...
*hides*
What a shame - I hope Melvyn Bragg is OK.
I have mentioned this episode to multiple people previously because it is absolutely Bragg at his worst, and it's incredible. And I'm a fan.
Ditto.
There was also the one where Tariq Ali was meant to be on the show, but got stuck in traffic: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Or when Tom Holland (appearances: 2) is berated because he's taking too long (at the 6 minute mark) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Huh, BBC seems to have taken this page down. I'm getting a 404 error now.
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God I love when he does that.
Ironically, a recent episode was on civility. 😉
That was a feisty one! I really wish Melvyn Bragg would not retire ftom presenting In Our Time. It just won't be the same without him.
He’s WHAT
This really was the best!!!
Oh no, he's retiring? I love In Our Time, I'll have a re-listen to his one, i love it when he does this 😁
Part of the joy of it was that he could go off on one at any moment.
Imagine this is the one where he's schooled re. our non-exceptionalism. Remember it well...
All that talk of James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny gave me quite the nostalgia wave.
I'd say at Pat Hudson (?) at 14:40 kicked his butt
this is the one I was thinking of yesterday @patburke.bsky.social
Good to hear him not let Pat Hudson get away with her 'preconceptions'.
Cnarls?