Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.