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Culture Podcast

Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.

Updated: occasionally

Episodes available: indefinitely

276 Episodes – 2024-01-28

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE 28 EPISODE -> In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Thu 28 Dec 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's great comedy of love, desire and marriage.

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Vincent van Gogh

Thu 21 Dec 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Thu 30 Nov 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of the Fall of the House of Usher.

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Marguerite de Navarre

Thu 23 Nov 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thu 16 Nov 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.

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Germinal

Thu 26 Oct 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's novel, set in a French miners' strike.

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The Seventh Seal

Thu 21 Sep 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bergman's iconic film of a knight playing chess with Death

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Death in Venice

Thu 15 Jun 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Mann's novella of 1912.

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Oedipus Rex

Thu 8 Jun 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests on Sophocles' tragedy, sometimes called the best play ever written

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Virgil's Georgics

Thu 18 May 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet's celebration of agriculture and rural life

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A Room of One's Own

Thu 30 Mar 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf's essay on women and literature.

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Stevie Smith

Thu 16 Feb 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning

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John Donne

Thu 12 Jan 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.

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Persuasion

Thu 22 Dec 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.

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Citizen Kane

Thu 15 Dec 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' celebrated and influential film from 1941.

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The Nibelungenlied

Thu 1 Dec 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval German epic The Song of the Nibelungs.

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Bauhaus

Thu 10 Nov 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential German school founded by Walter Gropius.

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Wilfred Owen

Thu 27 Oct 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding poets of the First World War.

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Berthe Morisot

Thu 13 Oct 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Thu 15 Sep 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance.

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John Bull

Thu 30 Jun 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and evolution of the satirical everyman figure

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Dylan Thomas

Thu 16 Jun 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems, plays and persona of the prominent Welsh writer

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Tang Era Poetry

Thu 12 May 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Li Bai and Du Fu from the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry.

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Olympe de Gouges

Thu 21 Apr 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791

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Polidori's The Vampyre

Thu 7 Apr 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales

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The Sistine Chapel

Thu 31 Mar 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.

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Antigone

Thu 24 Mar 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of an autocrat who defies family ties.

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In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds

Fri 4 Mar 2022

New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.

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Romeo and Juliet

Thu 17 Feb 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of young star-crossed love in Verona

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Colette

Thu 27 Jan 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major force in French culture in the 20th century.

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Thomas Hardy's Poetry

Thu 13 Jan 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.

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Fritz Lang

Thu 30 Dec 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a giant of cinema in Weimar Germany and Hollywood.

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A Christmas Carol

Thu 16 Dec 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.

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The Decadent Movement

Thu 18 Nov 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.

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The Song of Roland

Thu 4 Nov 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.

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Iris Murdoch

Thu 21 Oct 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of the celebrated author of The Bell.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Thu 30 Sep 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.

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Herodotus

Thu 23 Sep 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Thu 24 Jun 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the greatest and most challenging poems in English

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Edward Gibbon

Thu 17 Jun 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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Journey to the West

Thu 20 May 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great novel from the Ming Era, with its heroic Monkey.

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Ovid

Thu 29 Apr 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.

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The Bacchae

Thu 18 Mar 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revenge of Dionysus on Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Thu 4 Mar 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.

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The Rosetta Stone

Thu 11 Feb 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the deciphering of hieroglyphs, secret for 1,500 years.

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The Great Gatsby

Thu 14 Jan 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Fitzgerald's celebrated novel of the Jazz Age.

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Fernando Pessoa

Thu 3 Dec 2020

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Portuguese poet and his many literary personas.

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Albrecht Dürer

Thu 12 Nov 2020

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and timeless works of the great German artist.

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Piers Plowman

Thu 29 Oct 2020

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland's celebrated poem, written around 1370.

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Macbeth

Thu 1 Oct 2020

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.

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George Sand

Thu 6 Feb 2020

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.

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Catullus

Thu 9 Jan 2020

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poems of Catullus from the late Roman Republic

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Auden

Thu 19 Dec 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and his poetry from the 1930s.

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Crime and Punishment

Thu 14 Nov 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....

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Robert Burns

Thu 24 Oct 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry, ideas and life of Robert Burns (1759-1796).

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The Time Machine

Thu 17 Oct 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

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Lorca

Thu 4 Jul 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright's work, life and death.

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Sir Thomas Browne

Thu 6 Jun 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times

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Frankenstein

Thu 16 May 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Thu 18 Apr 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's comedy, one of his most popular plays

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Thu 21 Mar 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

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Antarah ibn Shaddad

Thu 28 Feb 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and context of this pre-Islamic Arabian knight

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Judith beheading Holofernes

Thu 14 Feb 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.

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Samuel Beckett

Thu 17 Jan 2019

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and novelist, author of Waiting for Godot

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Thu 13 Dec 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest poems from medieval England

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Horace

Thu 15 Nov 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman poet Horace, who flourished under Augustus.

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Is Shakespeare History? The Romans

Thu 18 Oct 2018

Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 2 of 2).

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Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets

Thu 11 Oct 2018

Melvyn Bragg discusses the impact of Shakespeare's approach to history (programme 1 of 2)

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Edith Wharton

Thu 4 Oct 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.

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The Iliad

Thu 13 Sep 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War.

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William Morris

Thu 5 Jul 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.

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Henrik Ibsen

Thu 31 May 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the playwright and his tragedies of middle-class life.

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The Mabinogion

Thu 10 May 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology.

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Middlemarch

Thu 19 Apr 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.

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Anna Akhmatova

Thu 18 Jan 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet.

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Hamlet

Thu 28 Dec 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, longest and most quoted play.

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Beethoven

Thu 21 Dec 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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Moby Dick

Thu 7 Dec 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.

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Germaine de Stael

Thu 16 Nov 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.

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Picasso's Guernica

Thu 2 Nov 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.

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Aphra Behn

Thu 12 Oct 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.

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Wuthering Heights

Thu 28 Sep 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.

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Eugene Onegin

Thu 22 Jun 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.

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Christine de Pizan

Thu 8 Jun 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).

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Emily Dickinson

Thu 11 May 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.

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Hokusai

Thu 30 Mar 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

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North and South

Thu 9 Mar 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.

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Seneca the Younger

Thu 23 Feb 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.

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John Clare

Thu 9 Feb 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.

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Four Quartets

Thu 22 Dec 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.

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The Fighting Temeraire

Thu 10 Nov 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.

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Epic of Gilgamesh

Thu 3 Nov 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.

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The 12th Century Renaissance

Thu 20 Oct 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.

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In Our Time - Animal Farm

Thu 29 Sep 2016

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Thu 23 Jun 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

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The Muses

Thu 19 May 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thu 5 May 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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Aurora Leigh

Thu 24 Mar 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Rumi's Poetry

Thu 11 Feb 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).

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Tristan and Iseult

Thu 31 Dec 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of Tristan and Iseult.

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Emma

Thu 19 Nov 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.

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Holbein at the Tudor Court

Thu 15 Oct 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Holbein at the court of Henry VIII.

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Frida Kahlo

Thu 9 Jul 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.