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Culture Podcast

Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.

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    Animal Farm

    Thu 29 Sep 2016

    All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    Thu 23 Jun 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

  • The Muses

    Thu 19 May 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.

  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    Thu 5 May 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  • Aurora Leigh

    Thu 24 Mar 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

  • Rumi's Poetry

    Thu 11 Feb 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).

  • Tristan and Iseult

    Thu 31 Dec 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of Tristan and Iseult.

  • Emma

    Thu 19 Nov 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.

  • Holbein at the Tudor Court

    Thu 15 Oct 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.

  • Frida Kahlo

    Thu 9 Jul 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.

  • Jane Eyre

    Thu 18 Jun 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.

  • Tagore

    Thu 7 May 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rabindranath Tagore.

  • Fanny Burney

    Thu 23 Apr 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.

  • Sappho

    Thu 9 Apr 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek poet Sappho.

  • Beowulf

    Thu 5 Mar 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.

  • Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

    Thu 15 Jan 2015

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bruegel's painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.

  • Kafka's The Trial

    Thu 27 Nov 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.

  • Aesop

    Thu 20 Nov 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables

  • Rudyard Kipling

    Thu 16 Oct 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.

  • Mrs Dalloway

    Thu 3 Jul 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.

  • The Bluestockings

    Thu 5 Jun 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.

  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Thu 22 May 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

  • The Tale of Sinuhe

    Thu 1 May 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.

  • Tristram Shandy

    Thu 24 Apr 2014

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.

  • The Tempest

    Thu 14 Nov 2013

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.

  • Pascal

    Thu 19 Sep 2013

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.

  • The Invention of Radio

    Thu 4 Jul 2013

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.

  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms

    Thu 27 Jun 2013

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Chinese book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

  • Queen Zenobia

    Thu 30 May 2013

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.

  • 尝茅惫颈-厂迟谤补耻蝉蝉

    Thu 23 May 2013

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

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