In Our Time

Misha Glenny

Booking Overview

An expert-panel interview show spanning history, science, religion, philosophy, and culture, typically featuring multiple university scholars, researchers, and museum curators discussing a tightly defined subject. Credible pitches would include published academics, authors, scientists, Egyptologists, historians, and cultural experts with deep subject-matter authority; booking is very difficult because the program favors highly credentialed specialists and is a prominent BBC production.

Metrics

Episodes: 1107

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

podcast.support@bbc.co.uk

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Host

Misha Glenny - British journalist, author, and broadcaster known for his reporting and writing on international affairs, organized crime, cybersecurity, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

University professors, senior researchers, published historians, scientists, literary scholars, Egyptologists, museum curators, and authors with recognized expertise in a specific historical, scientific, religious, philosophical, or cultural subject.

Required Achievements:

Published books or significant academic research, Senior university or museum appointments, Established scholarly expertise in a narrowly defined subject

Recent Guest Discussions

Lynne Frostick - Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Mountain Formation, And The Changing Structure Of Earth

Joe Cann - The Geological Evidence And Scientific Revolution Associated With Plate Tectonics

Richard Corfield - The Development Of Plate Tectonics And Its Impact On Modern Geology

Campbell Price - Hatshepsut’s Rule, Monuments, And Historical Erasure

Kate Spence - Hatshepsut And The Archaeology And Architecture Of Ancient Egypt

Recent Topics

History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Literature

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

In Our Time

In Our Time Returns for a New Series

September 07, 2026

In Our Time returns for a new series with host Misha Glenny.A world class seminar, every week. In Our Time explores the ideas, people and discoveries that have shaped our world, spanning history, philosophy, religion, science, literature, art and culture. On Thursdays, hear brand-new episodes with Misha Glenny and leading academics. On Mondays, discover Misha's Archive Picks: classic conversations from the In Our Time archive, originally presented by Melvyn Bragg. Recent episodes have fe...

Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi

September 03, 2026

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His fifth choice, first released in May 2024, is the Empress Dowager Cixi, the woman who, for almost fifty years, was the most powerful figure in the Chinese court. Cixi (1835-1908) started out at court as one of the Emperor's many concubines, yet was the only one who gave him a son to succeed him and who also possessed great political skill and ambition. When their son became emperor he was sti...

Archive: Plate Tectonics

August 27, 2026

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His fourth choice, first released in January 2008, explores how the science of plate tectonics revolutionised our understanding of the planet on which we live. America is getting further away from Europe. This is not a political statement but a geological fact. Just as the Pacific is getting smaller, the Red Sea bigger, the Himalayas are still going up and one day the Horn of Africa will be a la...

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