Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's influential story of the March sisters
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fine poet of love and war and author of I, Claudius.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Claude Monet's fascination with the foggy Thames.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great English comic novels.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 20th-century German playwright.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which a sex strike brings peace.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem that helped build the Finnish nation.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative and highly influential American poet.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit epic.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the waltz on British society and culture.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's fantastical tale inspired by Alice Liddell
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.
Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.
