Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Episodes to download
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Fernando Pessoa
Thu 3 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
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Albrecht DΓΌrer
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.
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Piers Plowman
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
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George Sand
Thu 6 Feb 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
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Catullus
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
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Auden
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
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Crime and Punishment
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
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Robert Burns
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
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The Time Machine
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
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Lorca
Thu 4 Jul 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
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Sir Thomas Browne
Thu 6 Jun 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
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Frankenstein
Thu 16 May 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thu 21 Mar 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Thu 28 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight
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Judith beheading Holofernes
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
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Samuel Beckett
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England
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Horace
Thu 15 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.
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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).
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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)
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Edith Wharton
Thu 4 Oct 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.
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The Iliad
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.
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William Morris
Thu 5 Jul 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
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Henrik Ibsen
Thu 31 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.
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The Mabinogion
Thu 10 May 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.
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Middlemarch
Thu 19 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
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Anna Akhmatova
Thu 18 Jan 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.
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Hamlet
Thu 28 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.
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