Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the collection of poems published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe: Shakespe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of one of the great historians, best known for hi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great novels of China’s Ming era, and perhaps the most lo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC-17/18AD) who, as he descri
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405
In this 900th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the best known and mo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most famous museum objects in the world, shown in the ima
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss F Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, published in 1925, one of the gre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Portuguese poet Pessoa (1888-1935) who was largely unknown in hi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) who achieved fame
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's poem, written around 1370, about a man called Wil
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When three witches prophesy
In a programme first broadcast in May 2019, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's (1797-185
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and life of one of the most popular writers in Europe in C
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catullus (c84-c54 BC) who wrote some of the most sublime poetry in t
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and poetry of WH Auden (1907-1973) up to his departure from
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novel written by Dostoevsky and published in 1866, in which Rask
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the man who, in his lifetime, was called The Caledonian
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas explored in HG Wells' novella, published in 1895, in which
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), a
