Episode 4
Gravitational Waves: What Gravity Revealed
4 October 2026 · 18:29
In 2007, In Our Time explored gravitational waves before anyone had detected one directly. After Time returns after the first black-hole chirp, a neutron-star collision seen in both gravity and light, hundreds of catalogue candidates and the strongest single-event tests yet of general relativity. The old promise of a new way to observe the universe is now a working science.
Original In Our Time episode: Gravitational Waves (17 May 2007): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007h8gv
After Time is an independent companion to In Our Time and is not produced by, affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC.
This episode uses synthetic voices to perform an original After Time script. It contains no BBC audio and does not imitate the voices of In Our Time presenters or guests.
Episode 3
The Bronze Age Collapse: What Actually Collapsed?
3 October 2026 · 16:48
In 2016, In Our Time asked what really collapsed at the end of the Late Bronze Age. After Time returns with a decade of sharper archaeology, climate evidence, network modelling and ancient DNA. The destructions are less simultaneous, drought is less uniform, migration is more local, and the old image of one civilisation-ending wave has become much harder to sustain.
Original In Our Time episode: The Bronze Age Collapse (16 June 2016): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh
After Time is an independent companion to In Our Time and is not produced by, affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC.
This episode uses synthetic voices to perform an original After Time script. It contains no BBC audio and does not imitate the voices of In Our Time presenters or guests.
Episode 2
1816, the Year Without a Summer: What the Evidence Remembers
3 October 2026 · 13:56
In 2016, In Our Time traced the Year Without a Summer from Mount Tambora’s eruption to cold, rain and human upheaval. After Time returns to that conversation with a decade of new evidence, from climate models and tree rings to lake mud and Mary Shelley, asking which links in the story became stronger and which became more complicated.
Original In Our Time episode: 1816, the Year Without a Summer (21 April 2016): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077j4yv
After Time is an independent companion to In Our Time and is not produced by, affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC.
This episode uses synthetic voices to perform an original After Time script. It contains no BBC audio and does not imitate the voices of In Our Time presenters or guests.
Episode 1
Romulus and Remus: What Rome Found After the Legend
16 September 2026 · 18:43
In 2013, In Our Time asked what historians could really know about Romulus and Remus. Since then, new archaeology and ancient DNA have made early Rome clearer without turning its legendary founder into a historical biography.
Original In Our Time episode: Romulus and Remus (24 January 2013): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q02t7
After Time is an independent companion to In Our Time and is not produced by, affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC.
This episode uses synthetic voices to perform an original After Time script. It contains no BBC audio and does not imitate the voices of In Our Time presenters or guests.
