Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
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.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
