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Created April 24, 2021

Updated August 06, 2023

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  1. In Our Time: Culture

    Englishness

    1Apr 20th, 200041m 52s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity. “An Englishman’s word is his bond”, “An Englishman’s home is his castle”. “England is a nation of shopkeepers”, but also “the most exclusive club there is”. To Cecil
  2. In Our Time: Culture

    Sensation

    2Nov 6th, 200328m 15s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss sensation, a Victorian literary phenomenon. The Archbishop of York fulminated against them in his sermons, they spread panic through the pages of The Times and in a famous review the Oxford Professor of Philosoph
  3. In Our Time: Culture

    John Ruskin

    2Mar 31st, 200542m 7s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of John Ruskin. He was the most brilliant art critic of his age, perhaps the most brilliant that Britain has ever produced, but he was much more than that. A champion of Turner and an enemy of W
  4. In Our Time: Culture

    Yeats and Irish Politics

    2Apr 17th, 200842m 17s
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics. Yeats lived through a period of great change in Ireland from the collapse of the home rule bill through to the Easter Rising of 1916 and the partitioning of the country. In
  5. In Our Time

    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    2May 22nd, 201447m 7s
    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1859 the poet Edward FitzGerald published a long poem based on the verses of the 11th-century Persian scholar Omar Khayyam. Not a single copy was sold in the first few months
  6. Stuff You Missed in History Class

    Amy Levy

    1Nov 29th, 202137m 22s
    Levy was recognized as an extraordinary literary talent of the 1880s. But after her tragic early death, she receded into the background of history.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/lis

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