In Our Time

Misha Glenny

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Booking Overview

“In Our Time” pairs a serious, accessible host with university-based experts to unpack major ideas across history, science, religion, culture, and philosophy. For PR professionals, it’s a strong credibility platform for scholars and public intellectuals who can explain complex topics clearly and in context.

Metrics

Episodes: 1093

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Misha Glenny - Broadly, Misha Glenny is a BBC Radio 4 presenter/host for “In Our Time,” guiding expert guests through significant works, events, and discoveries across history, religion, culture, science, and phi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
University academics and expert historians/scientists (e.g., lecturers, associate professors, professors, readers, emeritus professors) with a publication record in their field and the ability to connect specific topics (people, events, discoveries) to broader intellectual developments.
Required Achievements:  
Peer-reviewed research and academic monographs, Recognized subject-matter expertise (departmental leadership or senior faculty roles), Author/editor of scholarly books and research syntheses, Prior media/public-facing scholarship (often via notable publishers)

Recent Guest Discussions

Jon Hughes - Joseph Roth (fragmentation, Culture, Identity; Modernity In Roth’s Writing)

Deborah Holmes - Joseph Roth (german Literature, Central European Identity, Post–world War I Culture)

Orit Halpern - Cybernetics (data/vision, Critique Of Intelligence And Machine-market Integration)

Jon Agar - Cybernetics (information Age Foundations; Interdisciplinary Language And Governance)

Jacob Ward - Cybernetics (history Of Science/technology; Norbert Wiener And Systems Thinking)

Recent Topics

History, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Technology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
In Our Time
:

The Garamantes

June 11, 2026

Misha Glenny and guests discuss an ancient civilisation who lived over 2000 years ago in the southwest of modern-day Libya. During prehistoric times, the Sahara Desert was greener and even had large lakes, but for the last 5000 years it has been a hyperarid environment. Extreme swings of temperature and limited surface water might make the Sahara seem like an inhospitable place to live, but an ancient people in North Africa known to us as the Garamantes thrived there. Following descriptions o...

Joseph Roth

June 04, 2026

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the great writers on Central Europe after the first world war and on the dying of the old orders with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. As a German speaking Jew from Brody in the north-eastern edge of that Empire, which was then in Galicia, next in Poland and is now in Ukraine, Roth (1894 - 1939) was to spend his short life moving first to Lviv then to Vienna and finally to Paris via Berlin without ever finding a settled home. Roth explored t...

Cybernetics

May 28, 2026

Misha Glenny and guests discuss cybernetics – the field of study which gave us the prefix ‘cyber’ and helped lay the foundations for the information age. After the Second World War, cybernetics emerged as the study of communication, feedback, and control in both animals and machines. Cybernetics was first defined in 1948 by the American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) and aimed to find a shared universal language which could be used across disciplines. The name drew on an Ancient Gre...

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