Hello, my name is Chouchinciao, and I'm a Radio 4 fan. There, I've said it. I've come out. If you didn't know before you know now that I'm middle-aged, middle class, middlebrow, middle England, middle-of-the-road. Subtext: boring. Well, too bad. I like words, properly and imaginatively used, and I hate aimless wittering, so Radio 4 is my spiritual home. One of the jewels in the Radio 4 crown is In Our Time, a programme presented by Melvyn Bragg which "explores the history of ideas". It is a 45 minute programme, broadcast at 9am on Thursday mornings, repeated at 9.30pm the same day; you can ...
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