In Our Time: Culture - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I'm going to add to the review, entitled "a lot of work." I listen to In Our Time regularly. In fact, I listen, and re-listen, and then listen again. The guests are always knowledgeable about their field, and Melvin is by far and away the best interviewer/mediator I have ever heard. I don't know how he does it, but I hope he keeps on doing it. with every episode, I can be assured of learning something.

These podcasts are like getting free college courses!
With top-notch professors from Cambridge, Exeter, Holy Cross, and Oxford-your mind will soar! Melvyn Bragg is the consummate host, giving each speaker, thought provoking questions, and ample time for each response. I enjoy listening and learning about new subjects on the daily !

long time listener. in fact, i often relisten to older shows, and dig through the archives to find topics i may have missed.

the depth and breadth of this show is unrivalled. the guests are almost always experts in the their fields. if there’s a subject, it’s almost surely been covered or discussed as an aside or in an episode.

not sure where the hatin’ on Melvyn is coming from, and i’ve never noticed him especially interrupting women. the man is from northern england and may mumble a bit, but he sure isn’t unintelligible. it’s called an accent. rather hear him talk than the obnoxious vocal fry that gushes forth from every american under the age of 40. this is a one hour format show with three guests. the amount of information flying around is substantial, and sometimes my boy Melvyn has to step in and get the show back on track.

all the woke b.s. hating on this show is absurd….just like the people posting their worthless views…vacuous mouthbreathing drones. clearly, many of these posters have not listened enough to encounter the eye-rolling leftist ideas from some of the guests. typical.

soooo…dive into the massive library of shows this podcast offers, and your intellectual curiosity will be both satiated and aroused.

In Our Time is one of only 3 podcasts I listen to regularly. I come back because I am guaranteed to hear people who are intelligent, informed and passionate share what they love. Wow! Great!

Sometimes the host can hector a bit, but I think he is trying to be the conductor of an orchestra rather than a bully. He also must do a tremendous amount of prep work to shape all these many and varied conversations.

Great information, but as many others have said, the host is rather frustrating due to his extreme tendency to dismiss and interrupt the experts invited on the show. For example, during the episode on Emily Dickinson, the host interrupts the three guests (especially the two female experts) and redirects them while they are mid-thought and mid-sentence. He also seems to condescend Emily Dickinson in this episode and continues to undermine the guests’ expertise and diminish Dickinson’s accomplishments and legacy. The guests are incredibly knowledgeable if they were only allowed to speak.