Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic "Aurora Leigh" which was published
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi, the Persian scholar and Sufi mystic of the 13th
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tristan and Iseult, one of the most popular stories of the Middle Ag
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed t
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) during his
Born near Mexico City in 1907, Frida Kahlo is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists. She took
The story of Jane Eyre is one of the best-known in English fiction. Jane is the orphan who survives
Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been call
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century novelist, playwright and d
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Greek poet Sappho. Born in the late seventh century BC, Sapp
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem Beowulf, one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon li
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting of 1559, 'The Fight Between Carn
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Franz Kafka's novel of power and alienation 'The Trial', in which re
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop. According to some accounts, Aesop was a strikingly ugly slave
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay in 1865, Ki
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. First published in 1925, it
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bluestockings. Around the middle of the eighteenth century a
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1859 the poet Edward FitzGerald
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Tale of Sinuhe, one of the most celebrated works of ancient
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy. Sterne's comic masterpi
