Talk:In Our Time (radio series)

message: The MP3s files that are mentioned in the article under the section Archive are not available anymore if I'm not mistaken. Can anyone confirm this?
:The mp3 files are no longer officially available. Most BBC podcasts are only available for seven days. I think that section ought to be removed.--Jojas (talk) 21:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: MP3s mentioned in the article

message: Is Melvyn out of his depth? Everyone listening will already know the dull points he always seems so keen to have brought up. Why not just let the experts engage in strenuous argument? There must be space on the digital airwaves for 45min of that a week.
:Your comments might be more suited to the Radio Four or In Our Time message boards
:I think you misunderstand the premise of the programme. Melvyn is usually out as much out of his depth as many of his listeners. He brings up the points in his notes to steer the contributors to expound on the subject for the benefit of the listeners. Jojas 14:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh heh! Yes, he can be discomfited outside his literary/philosophical comfort zone. It doesn't make much difference with scientific topics because he's so much in awe of them, but with history he can be a little tetchy if his assumptions are challenged. BTLizard 01:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Presenter

message: I have just added the contributor details for latest editions of the programme (Mars, Jesuits) so the entries are consistents with those for previous programes. However, I do question the inclusion of this information because:
*The contributors are listed on the archive pages for each edition on the BBC In Our Time website.
*Including them is making this article very long. When I edited the introduction I noticed a warning message about the size of the article.Programme details that I think should be included, and I may do this if I have time, are the transmission date and subject theme (i.e.Science, History, Culture, Religion, Philosphy - the sections used in the archive) -- Jojas 14:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The BBC pages does not contain links to any bios of the participants, and few links to relevant external web sites. The split between several categories, making this list the only complete combined directory of the streams. I use this page instead of the BBC's when I want to a IOT programme to listen to. --H@r@ld 23:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a point that had not occured to me. However this article is getting rather long. I wonder whether it might work better by having the details of the participants listed seperately? Several of guests have contributed to more than one programme. It would take a lot of work to produce.Jojas 22:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

text: In other articles, whene there are long programme listings, these are usually spun of into a sperate article. That would probably help here although the warning that comes about article length is only for editors to be aware that it may be becoming cumbersome. In this respect, the onus (and I'm guessing here) is up to the curent active editors to decide. Candy 11:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contributors and other programme details 

message: Footnotifying perl script	
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my (%c, %seen);
open FH, "<redlink_contributors.txt"	die $!;
for (split "\n", (join , <FH>)) {
  /\[\[(.*?)\]\]/
I'm not sure if everyone will like it or not. I removed the contributor list entirely, and replaced every contributor who doesn't already have a wiki page with a footnote. That way, one can click on a contributor name if they have a wiki page, or click on the footnote link to get a short description. The short description also includes the redlink, so anyone interested can start writing a new wiki page for that person. What do you think? 85.210.17.30 14:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  another bold change 

message: I have done forty-one transcripts of the current series of "In our time", that is all the programmes in this series. I have put a lot of work to do this, and do not know if there is a question of copyright in case I would publish them on Wikipedia. I have provided the transcripts with links if there is some important information or if somebody would like to get to know something more about particular points.
I think that even the most keen listeners can find some information in the transcripts she/he missed while listening to the programmes. So, I think, that there is a point in making them. I prepared all transcripts as Microsoft Word documents. How can I publish them now on Wikipedia, where should I send the Word files? Please provide me with an e-mail if you are interested in publishing them in Wikipedia.
--DarekS 20:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The inclusion of or links to transcripts not cleared by the BBC would be a breach of the BBC's copyrights and they can not, therefore, be included on WP.  B1atv 13:19, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transcripts of "In Our Time" BBC programmes  

message: On April 25 2008, this article indicated that the "next programme" would be on materialism. In fact, the next programme will be on the Enclosures Act. That on materialism has already been broadcast as it was first broadcast on April 24 2008. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Update needed

message: At last I have managed to rectify the wikilink to Anthony O'Hear. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikilink

message: An example of a entry in the Programme List table which is annotated using comments.
 ! Broadcast date !! Title!! Contributors
 
 |-
 | 16 October 2008
 | Vitalism - the spark of life
 | Patricia Fara, Andrew Mendelsohn, Pietro Corsi
 
 |-
(Note: The Broadcast Date is also used an external link to the programmes webpage in the archive on the IOT website. The url/weblink to the webpage for any programme will be http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_yyyymmdd.shtml, where 'yyyymmdd' is the date of broadcast.)
The result will should appear like this:
Broadcast date 	Title                       	Contributors
16 October 2008	Vitalism - the spark of life	Patricia Fara, Andrew Mendelsohn, Pietro Corsi
--Jojas (talk) 14:57, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guide to format for Programme List entries 

message: I just finished adding the infobox and other changes to the article.  I think it makes sense for the list of IOT episodes to be in its own article, following examples already created in :Category:Lists of radio series episodes.  It would also be useful for others to review and expand the information in the infobox: an image and an episode count are the most obvious additions.  Thanks. 68.167.252.11 (talk) 22:02, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of programmes/episodes, infobox expansion 

message: The programme on the whale has now been broadcast (May 21 2009) and the next programme will be on
St. Paul and his influence on Christianity, so this can be updated. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Whale now broadcast

message: Excellent! The programme on the Augustan age was broadcast on June 11 2009, and is already down there, with details of next programme.This page is now getting updated a lot more regularly than was once the case - so commendation is due to those seeing to these updates. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:33, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Excellent - commendation is due

message: I see that already, as the programme has began a new series in the autumn of 2009, it has already been updated - so, to continue where I left off with my last comment, a million thanks to all those who worked hard to update this article! Keep up the good work, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:15, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: And some further commendations

message: I may regret this but I have copied the List of Programmes section into a new article to create a separate article (List of In Our Time programmes). Consequentally this section has been reduced to a minimum and the Contributers section, which was simply a the list of references from the Programme List also moved to the new article and deleted from this page.
--Jojas (talk) 16:47, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The split was a good thing to do.  Doing that prompted me to work on the main article. 72.244.207.68 (talk) 10:39, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Split 

message: This article is already out of date - the last programme as of 6 December was on the silk road. The list is more up-to-date - why do we not go back to merging the list of episodes with this article? This used to be part of the article, and if we went back to this, it would stop the article getting out-dated. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:38, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The list of episodes is long enough that IMHO it is better to keep them separate.  But you're right about the update issue:  it doesn't make sense to have to update both articles.  After the changes I just made, in the future, only List of In Our Time programmes will need to be updated as to what the last programme was.  66.167.48.179 (talk) 20:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge list of episodes with this article?

message: According to the episode list (List of In Our Time programmes) Free Will (10/03/2011) appears to be the 501st episode, rather than the 500th, as all the publicity claimed. Or is one of the broadcast episodes retrospectively no longer counted, for some reason?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.110.152.201 (talk) 23:28, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Explained here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.110.205.184 (talk) 01:08, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So is that to say that the 8 Mar 2004 episode The Roman Empire's Decline and Fall is a rebroadcast of the 5 Apr 2001 episode The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century, and this is the source of the confusion? Span (talk) 07:44, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Free Will not 500th episode?

message: Apologies if when I put in information about the article taking a summer break after early July, it seemed to much of a repetition of what had been said earlier. Feel free to re-structure the article accordingly if you can see how it could be made a little less repetitive. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:26, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Apologies

message: The article says that the programme is broadcast at 9 a.m. on a Thursday, but does not point out that it gets repeated at 9: 30 on a Thursday evening. I did try to put this information in, but for some strange reason, some one else deleted it. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Information on the programme being repeated

message: The article on the Kama Sutra, broadcast on Candlemas 2012. said that the Kama Sutra was rather like Wikipedia. Wikipedians may like to note this  - even if the reaction of Melvyn Bragg was "Oh dear". ACEOREVIVED (talk) 00:36, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference to Wikipedia on Candlemas 2012

message: The note in the sidebar says that the programme lasts 45 minutes. should it not add that this is only the morning edition, the programme gets repeated at 9 :30 p.m. when it lasts only thirty minutes? By the way I am User: ACEOREVIVED - I was off line for a long time, but now appear to be back on Wikipedia. I  shall leave other Wikipedians to decide whether that is good or bad. 78.150.103.94 (talk) 06:21, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Note about programme length

message: I've WP:BLARed the List of In Our Time programmes because I think it doesn't pass WP:NLIST and the article violated both WP:LINKFARM and WP:EL. If you disagree with my assessment feel free to revert my edit. TipsyElephant (talk) 16:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLAR