Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Episodes to download
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Bauhaus
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
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Wilfred Owen
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
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Berthe Morisot
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Thu 15 Sep 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
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John Bull
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
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Dylan Thomas
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
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Tang Era Poetry
Thu 12 May 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
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Olympe de Gouges
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
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Polidori's The Vampyre
Thu 7 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
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The Sistine Chapel
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
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Antigone
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
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Fri 4 Mar 2022
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Romeo and Juliet
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
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Colette
Thu 27 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
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Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
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Fritz Lang
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
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A Christmas Carol
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
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The Decadent Movement
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
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The Song of Roland
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.
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Iris Murdoch
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
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Herodotus
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
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Edward Gibbon
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Journey to the West
Thu 20 May 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.
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Ovid
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
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The Bacchae
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Thu 4 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
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The Rosetta Stone
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.
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The Great Gatsby
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
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