Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
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Samuel Beckett
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Horace
Thu 15 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
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Edith Wharton
Thu 4 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
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The Iliad
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
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William Morris
Thu 5 Jul 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
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Henrik Ibsen
Thu 31 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
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The Mabinogion
Thu 10 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.
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Middlemarch
Thu 19 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
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Anna Akhmatova
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.
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Hamlet
Thu 28 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.
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Beethoven
Thu 21 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
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Moby Dick
Thu 7 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.
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Germaine de Stael
Thu 16 Nov 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.
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Picasso's Guernica
Thu 2 Nov 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
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Aphra Behn
Thu 12 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.
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Wuthering Heights
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.
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Eugene Onegin
Thu 22 Jun 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.
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Christine de Pizan
Thu 8 Jun 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).
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Emily Dickinson
Thu 11 May 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
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Hokusai
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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North and South
Thu 9 Mar 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
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Seneca the Younger
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
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Four Quartets
Thu 22 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
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The Fighting Temeraire
Thu 10 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
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Epic of Gilgamesh
Thu 3 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
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The 12th Century Renaissance
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
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