Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders and Janet Clare discuss Elizabethan and Jacobea
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
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
Melvyn Bragg discusses the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm with Juliette Wood, Marina Warner and T
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most brilliant and shocking satires ever written in Engli
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque. What do the music of Bach, the Colonnade
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dante’s ‘Inferno’ - a medieval journey through the nine circles of H
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the music of the spheres, the elegant and poetic idea that the revol
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Metaphysical poets, a diffuse group of 17th century writers incl
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses the prescient thriller ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ about the decline
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library at Nineveh, a treasure house of Assyrian ideas from the
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics. Yeats lived through a period
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus. Are you a touch narcissistic?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss King Lear. Around the turn of 1606, a group of London theatre-goers
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the coterie of brilliant thinkers gathered in 16th century Prague by
Melvyn Bragg and guests will be delving into the world of medieval legend in pursuit of the powerful
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Algerian-French writer and Existentialist philosopher Albert Cam