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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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    Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

    Thu 9 Apr 2009

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World.

  • The School of Athens

    Thu 26 Mar 2009

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.

  • The Waste Land and Modernity

    Thu 26 Feb 2009

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.

  • The Brothers Grimm

    Thu 5 Feb 2009

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

  • Swift's A Modest Proposal

    Thu 29 Jan 2009

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal

  • The Baroque Movement

    Thu 20 Nov 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque.

  • Dante's Inferno

    Thu 23 Oct 2008

    Melvyn Bragg examines Dante鈥檚 鈥業nferno鈥�, a medieval journey through Hell鈥檚 nine circles

  • The Metaphysical Poets

    Thu 3 Jul 2008

    Melvyn Bragg examines the Metaphysical poets, including John Donne and Andrew Marvell.

  • The Music of the Spheres

    Thu 19 Jun 2008

    Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.

  • The Riddle of the Sands

    Thu 12 Jun 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prescient thriller about Anglo-German relations.

  • The Library at Nineveh

    Thu 15 May 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.

  • Yeats and Irish Politics

    Thu 17 Apr 2008

    Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.

  • The Greek Myths

    Thu 13 Mar 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.

  • Lear

    Thu 28 Feb 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare鈥檚 bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.

  • Rudolph II

    Thu 31 Jan 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.

  • The Fisher King

    Thu 17 Jan 2008

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enigmatic myth of the Fisher King.

  • Camus

    Thu 3 Jan 2008

    The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.

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