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In Our Time: Culture

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

Episodes

Total: 199

Elizabethan Revenge

2009/6/18

Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders and Janet Clare discuss Elizabethan and Jacobea

The Whale - A History

2009/5/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests Steve Jones, Bill Amos and Eleanor Weston discuss the evolutionary history o

Melvyn Bragg and guests David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and Michele Barrett discuss Aldous Huxley's dyst

The School of Athens

2009/3/26

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The School of Athens – the fresco painted by the Italian Renaissance

Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Steve Connor and Lawrence Rainey, discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem

The Brothers Grimm

2009/2/5

Melvyn Bragg discusses the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm with Juliette Wood, Marina Warner and T

Swift's A Modest Proposal

2009/1/29

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most brilliant and shocking satires ever written in Engli

The Baroque Movement

2008/10/23

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque. What do the music of Bach, the Colonnade

Dante's Inferno

2008/7/3

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dante’s ‘Inferno’ - a medieval journey through the nine circles of H

The Music of the Spheres

2008/6/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the music of the spheres, the elegant and poetic idea that the revol

The Metaphysical Poets

2008/6/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Metaphysical poets, a diffuse group of 17th century writers incl

The Riddle of the Sands

2008/6/12

Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses the prescient thriller ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ about the decline

The Library at Nineveh

2008/5/15

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library at Nineveh, a treasure house of Assyrian ideas from the

Yeats and Irish Politics

2008/4/17

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics. Yeats lived through a period

The Greek Myths

2008/3/13

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus. Are you a touch narcissistic?

Lear

2008/2/28

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss King Lear. Around the turn of 1606, a group of London theatre-goers

Rudolph II

2008/1/31

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the coterie of brilliant thinkers gathered in 16th century Prague by

The Fisher King

2008/1/17

Melvyn Bragg and guests will be delving into the world of medieval legend in pursuit of the powerful

Camus

2008/1/3

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Algerian-French writer and Existentialist philosopher Albert Cam