In Our Time

Bragg gives short shrift to pretension of any kind, while remaining stalwart in his search for knowledge. His methodology inIn Our Timeis... not unlike that of a man throwing a stick at a dog: he chucks his questions ahead, and if the chosen academic fails to bring it right back, he chides them. He retains enough of his bluff Cumbrian origins not to be taken in by gambolling and tweedy high spirit...