Browse the Romantic era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German polymath, Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Melvyn Bragg examines the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and the brutality of the British state.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.
