Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Episodes to download
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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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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 Dürer
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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