Where else could a presenter get away with saying 'Can I move on to Burckhardt?'

The first, In Our Time, has been described as 'the most cerebral 45 minutes on British radio'. In the course of just one series, for instance, it has tackled Homer's Odyssey, Eighteenth Century Politeness, Agincourt, The Origins of Life, Jean-Paul Satre, and Pi. In each edition, Melvyn Bragg chairs a sustained discussion between three academic experts. On paper the format is utterly forbidding; it is certainly characterized by a high level of seriousness. As one reviewer points out, where else could a presenter get away with saying 'Can I move on to Burckhardt?' or talk of 'the Renaissance reaction against scholasticism and the Ciceronian reaction against Olympian theology'?

D. Hendy, Life on air: a history of Radio Four (2007), 397