Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
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Germinal
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
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The Seventh Seal
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
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Oedipus Rex
Thu 8 Jun 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
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Virgil's Georgics
Thu 18 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
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Walt Whitman
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
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A Room of One's Own
Thu 30 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
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Stevie Smith
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
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John Donne
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
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Persuasion
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
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Citizen Kane
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
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The Nibelungenlied
Thu 1 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
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Bauhaus
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
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Wilfred Owen
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
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Berthe Morisot
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Thu 15 Sep 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
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John Bull
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
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Dylan Thomas
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
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Tang Era Poetry
Thu 12 May 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
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Olympe de Gouges
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
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Polidori's The Vampyre
Thu 7 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
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The Sistine Chapel
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
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Antigone
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
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Romeo and Juliet
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
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Colette
Thu 27 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
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Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
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Fritz Lang
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
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A Christmas Carol
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
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