Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Episodes to download
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Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Thu 15 Jan 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bruegel's painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.
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Aesop
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables
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Rudyard Kipling
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
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Mrs Dalloway
Thu 3 Jul 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
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The Bluestockings
Thu 5 Jun 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Thu 22 May 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
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The Tale of Sinuhe
Thu 1 May 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.
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Tristram Shandy
Thu 24 Apr 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.
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Pascal
Thu 19 Sep 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Thu 27 Jun 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Chinese book Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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Queen Zenobia
Thu 30 May 2013
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Queen Zenobia, who led a rebellion against Ancient Rome.
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Thu 23 May 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
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Montaigne
Thu 25 Apr 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.
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The Amazons
Thu 11 Apr 2013
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Amazons, formidable female warriors of classical myth.
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Chekhov
Thu 14 Mar 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
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Decline and Fall
Thu 21 Feb 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Thu 10 Jan 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.
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Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Thu 13 Dec 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Persian epic poem, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.
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The Anarchy
Thu 1 Nov 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Anarchy, the 12th-century English civil war.
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Caxton and the Printing Press
Thu 18 Oct 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Caxton and the influence of the printing press.
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Gerald of Wales
Thu 4 Oct 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar Gerald of Wales.
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Annie Besant
Thu 21 Jun 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 19th-century writer and campaigner Annie Besant.
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Thu 14 Jun 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.
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