DIARY
MELVYN BRAGG: Hello. In the autumn of 1998, two years before the end of what we now know to be the 20th century, the BBC introduced a new discussion series that allowed academics to explore a variety of historical, scientific and philosophical topics. It was to be called In Our Time. Whilst other programmes rejected repetition, hesitation and deviation, In Our Time actively encouraged them, often all at the same time. In this way it proved revolutionary
With me to discuss In Our Time are Ruth Glum, Reader in Wristwatches and Portable Clocks at the Greenwich Institute of Time; Graham Rumble, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the Archaeological Research Centre at Cambridge University; and Hannah Bicker, Deputy Research Associate in Black Holes at St Uffy College, London.
Graham Rumble, can we start with the title of the programme, In Our Time. How did that come about?