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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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    William Morris

    Thu 5 Jul 2018

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.

  • Henrik Ibsen

    Thu 31 May 2018

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.

  • The Mabinogion

    Thu 10 May 2018

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.

  • Middlemarch

    Thu 19 Apr 2018

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.

  • Anna Akhmatova

    Thu 18 Jan 2018

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.

  • Hamlet

    Thu 28 Dec 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.

  • Beethoven

    Thu 21 Dec 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

  • Moby Dick

    Thu 7 Dec 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.

  • Germaine de Stael

    Thu 16 Nov 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.

  • Picasso's Guernica

    Thu 2 Nov 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.

  • Aphra Behn

    Thu 12 Oct 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.

  • Wuthering Heights

    Thu 28 Sep 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.

  • Eugene Onegin

    Thu 22 Jun 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.

  • Christine de Pizan

    Thu 8 Jun 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).

  • Emily Dickinson

    Thu 11 May 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.

  • Hokusai

    Thu 30 Mar 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

  • North and South

    Thu 9 Mar 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.

  • Seneca the Younger

    Thu 23 Feb 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.

  • John Clare

    Thu 9 Feb 2017

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.

  • Four Quartets

    Thu 22 Dec 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.

  • The Fighting Temeraire

    Thu 10 Nov 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.

  • Epic of Gilgamesh

    Thu 3 Nov 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.

  • The 12th Century Renaissance

    Thu 20 Oct 2016

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.

  • 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.

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