Culture Podcast
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
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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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Voltaire's Candide
Thu 3 May 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, published in 1759.
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Moses Mendelssohn
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
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Benjamin Franklin
Thu 1 Mar 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.
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The Safavid Dynasty
Thu 12 Jan 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty of early modern Iran.
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Robinson Crusoe
Thu 22 Dec 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe.
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Christina Rossetti
Thu 1 Dec 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.
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Tennyson's In Memoriam
Thu 30 Jun 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Thu 12 May 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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The Medieval University
Thu 17 Mar 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Thu 6 Jan 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
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The Unicorn
Thu 28 Oct 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.
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Sturm und Drang
Thu 14 Oct 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.
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al-Biruni
Thu 10 Jun 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Central Asian scientist and historian al-Biruni.
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Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Thu 27 May 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
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Munch and The Scream
Thu 18 Mar 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream.
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Silas Marner
Thu 28 Jan 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
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Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thu 26 Nov 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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