Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence of the eighteenth-century philosopher Mos
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin. A printer, statesman, di
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra, one of the most celebrated and often misundersto
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty, rulers of the Persian empire between the 16
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Published in 1719, it was
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti. Ross
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's long poem In Memoriam.In 1850, shortly b
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy.In 1621 th
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval universities.In the 11th and 12th centuries a new t
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics. The Poetics is, as far as we know, the firs
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.In 1812 the 24-year-old
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of metaphor. In Shakespeare's As You Like It, the me
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the unicorn. In the 5th century BC a Greek historian, Ctesias, d
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.In the 1770s a sm
Melvyn Bragg discusses 'Lives of the Artists' - the great biographer Giorgio Vasari's study of Renai
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman Satire. Much of Roman culture was a development of their rich
Melvyn Bragg and guests David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe and Alastair Wright discuss the work of the Norw
Melvyn Bragg and guests Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and Valentine Cunningham discuss George Eliot's
Melvyn Bragg and guests Gregory Irvine, Nicola Liscutin and Angus Lockyer discuss the history of the
Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and Katherine Mullin discuss A Portrait of the Arti
