Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop, legendary author of the famous collection of fables
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century Bluestocking Society.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Egyptian poem The Tale of Sinuhe.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman satire.
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of friendship; ‘a single soul dwelling in two bodies’.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year cultural history of fairies.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Melvyn Bragg examines the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.
The life and work of Samuel Johnson, a giant of 18th century literature.
Melvyn considers the impact of the invention of the book.
Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare’s work that makes it universal.
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heavenly host of Angels.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity.
Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.