Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Episodes to download
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Italo Calvino
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist
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George Herbert
Thu 7 Nov 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
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Little Women
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters
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Robert Graves
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
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Monet in England
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
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Fielding's Tom Jones
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thu 9 May 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
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Bertolt Brecht
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
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Lysistrata
Thu 11 Apr 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
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The Kalevala
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
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The Waltz
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.
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Vincent van Gogh
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
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Marguerite de Navarre
Thu 23 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
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Germinal
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
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The Seventh Seal
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
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Oedipus Rex
Thu 8 Jun 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
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Virgil's Georgics
Thu 18 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
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Walt Whitman
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
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A Room of One's Own
Thu 30 Mar 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
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Stevie Smith
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
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John Donne
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
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Persuasion
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
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Citizen Kane
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
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The Nibelungenlied
Thu 1 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
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