In Our Time - In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science

As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn Bragg looks at the history of the oldest scientific learned society of them all: the Royal Society

In Our Time - In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science - The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1

Melvyn Bragg travels to Wadham College, Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented in the garden of their inspirational college warden, John Wilkins.

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In Our Time - In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science - The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2

How Newton's feud with the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.

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In Our Time - In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science - The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3

The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist learned societies and associations, all threatening the Royal Society's pre-eminence.

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In Our Time - In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science - The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4

The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century, such as co-ordinating international scientific missions during the Cold War.

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