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In Our Time: Culture

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01drwny

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Judith beheading Holofernes

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

49m

Samuel Beckett

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

2019-01-17 48m

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

2018-12-13 51m

Horace

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

2018-11-15 48m

Is Shakespeare History? The Romans

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

2018-10-18 48m

Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets

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

2018-10-11 51m

Edith Wharton

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

2018-10-04 49m

The Iliad

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

2018-09-13 48m

William Morris

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

2018-07-05 53m

Henrik Ibsen

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

2018-05-31 49m