Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Episodes to download
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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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In Our Time - Animal Farm
Thu 29 Sep 2016
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Thu 23 Jun 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thu 5 May 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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Aurora Leigh
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Holbein at the Tudor Court
Thu 15 Oct 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.
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Jane Eyre
Thu 18 Jun 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.
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Fanny Burney
Thu 23 Apr 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.
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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.
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