In Our Time Archive: Culture
Summary: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas as it applies to culture - from literature and the visual arts to artistic movements and their origins.
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Podcasts:
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World. With David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and Michele Barrett.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Wasteland. With Steve Connor, Fran Brearton and Lawrence Rainey.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. With Juliette Wood, Marina Warner and Tony Phelan.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal. With John Mullan, Judith Hawley and Ian McBride.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque. With Tim Blanning, Nigel Aston and Helen Hills.
Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles. With guests Claire Honess, Margaret Kean and John Took.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell. With Tom Healy, Tom Cain and Julie Sanders.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations. Guests include Rosemary Ashton, Richard Evans and Tim Blanning.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas. With Eleanor Robson, Andrew George and Karen Radner.
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats. With Roy Foster, Fran Brearton and Warwick Gould.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus. Guests include Nick Lowe, Mary Beard and Richard Buxton.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear. With Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Bate and Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King. Guests include Juliette Wood, Carolyne Larrington and Stephen Knight.
The life and work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus. Discussed with guests Peter Dunwoodie, Christina Howells and David Walker.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Wordsworth’s poem The Predule. Guests include Emma Mason, Stephen Gill and Rosemary Ashton.
