Episode | Description | Date Aired | Reach | Contacts | Categories | Hosts | Episode Guests | Length | Curator's Notes | Expand | |||||
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"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When ... | October 1, 2020 | -- | 51:45s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's most popular works, writt... | April 18, 2019 | 54:53s | |||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how artists from the Middle Ages onwards have ... | February 14, 2019 | -- | 49:30s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works of Wharton (1862-1937) such as The A... | October 4, 2018 | -- | 49:28s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's best known, most quoted and long... | December 28, 2017 | -- | 52:33s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of Germaine de Staël (1766... | November 16, 2017 | -- | 49:57s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689), who made her name and ... | October 12, 2017 | -- | 49:51s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Emily Dickinson, arguabl... | May 11, 2017 | -- | 48:30s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses and their role in Greek mythology, w... | May 19, 2016 | -- | 45:29s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tristan and Iseult, one of the most popular st... | December 31, 2015 | -- | 45:12s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century nove... | April 23, 2015 | -- | 44:25s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Greek poet Sappho. Born in the late se... | April 9, 2015 | -- | 46:02s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Amazons, a tribe of formidable female ... | April 11, 2013 | -- | 42:12s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Druids, the priests of ancient Europe.... | September 20, 2012 | -- | 42:00s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Kama Sutra, one of the most celebrated... | February 2, 2012 | -- | 42:07s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of metaphor. In Shakespeare's ... | November 25, 2010 | -- | 42:05s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the unicorn. In the 5th century BC a Greek... | October 28, 2010 | -- | 41:59s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests David Jackson, Dorothy Rowe and Alastair Wright discus... | March 18, 2010 | -- | 41:32s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders and Janet Clare discuss E... | June 18, 2009 | -- | 42:17s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss King Lear. Around the turn of 1606, a group o... | February 28, 2008 | -- | 42:14s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 18th Century fashion for epistolary ... | March 15, 2007 | -- | 42:12s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Argentinian master of... | January 4, 2007 | -- | 42:12s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss hell and its representation in literature and ... | December 21, 2006 | -- | 27:56s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anti slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. W... | June 8, 2006 | -- | 42:12s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the concept of friendship. In Greek and Roman ... | March 2, 2006 | -- | 41:46s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss truth, lies and fiction. In 1995 a book appear... | July 15, 1999 | -- | 27:55s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and the future of the novel. D... | November 11, 1999 | -- | 28:15s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg investigates masculinity in literature. Ernest Hemingway wrote in... | January 20, 2000 | -- | 28:11s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the politics and practice of re... | February 17, 2000 | -- | 28:16s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of William Shakespeare. He was nomina... | May 11, 2000 | -- | 28:25s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American Ideal. The Twentieth Century has ... | June 1, 2000 | -- | 42:20s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biography which sells more books now than ever... | June 22, 2000 | -- | 28:13s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg examines what we know about the life of William Shakespeare. Char... | March 15, 2001 | -- | 28:13s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the 19th century Russian ... | April 25, 2002 | -- | 28:14s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss multiculturalism. The divisions between people... | May 13, 1999 | -- | 28:08s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Death, what the 16th century philosopher Franc... | May 4, 2000 | -- | 28:24s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of London. To T.S.Eliot it was the... | September 28, 2000 | -- | 41:34s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticis... | October 12, 2000 | -- | 42:07s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Scriblerus Club. The 18th century Club inc... | June 9, 2005 | -- | 42:03s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legendary wizard Merlin. He was sired by a... | June 30, 2005 | -- | 28:20s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the literary and visual depiction of fairies, ... | May 11, 2006 | -- | 28:07s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dante’s ‘Inferno’ - a medieval journey through... | July 3, 2008 | -- | 42:04s | ||||||||||||
"Join us for a conversation with award-winning poet Don Paterson to discuss whe... | January 10, 2019 | -- | -- | 1:20:31s | |||||||||||
"Do you think scientists are boring boffins who don’t leave the lab? Think agai... | June 21, 2017 | -- | -- | 59:09s | |||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist... | November 15, 2012 | -- | 42:06s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of truth. Pontius Pilate fa... | December 18, 2014 | -- | 42:10s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of human evolution, which stretches ... | February 16, 2006 | -- | 28:11s | ||||||||||||
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss negative numbers, a history of mystery and sus... | March 9, 2006 | -- | 41:57s | ||||||||||||
"Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, the author of both Difficult Wo... | October 11, 2023 | -- | 1:09:37s | ||||||||||||
"Adam talks with British journalist, author and presenter, Helen Lewis about cu... | October 5, 2024 | -- | 1:09:52s | ||||||||||||
"The podcaster and comedian has turned the city into a haven for manosphere inf... | September 19, 2024 | -- | -- | 28:22s | |||||||||||
"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.s... | September 13, 2024 | -- | 25:02s | ||||||||||||
"John Houmes, Brad Edwards, and Helen Lewis, host of the podcast Helen Lewis Ha... | August 21, 2024 | -- | -- | 1:19:55s | |||||||||||
"Send us a textJordan Peterson is a right wing polemicist who shouldn't have an... | June 23, 2024 | -- | -- | 1:02:18s | |||||||||||
"As the U.K. prepares for a sudden national election in four weeks, Helen Lewis... | June 3, 2024 | 1:07:15s | |||||||||||||
"For our last episode in this series David is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss ... | May 19, 2024 | 56:02s | |||||||||||||
"Columnist and writer Sarah Ditum is the author of Toxic, which explores how in... | January 24, 2024 | 1:05:37s | |||||||||||||
"Helen Lewis is a journalist, broadcaster and staff writer for The Atlantic. Sh... | January 24, 2024 | -- | 56:34s | ||||||||||||
"Cold Open Question of the Week: If Santa gave your wife a $50 gift card to spe... | November 1, 2023 | -- | -- | 1:14:26s | |||||||||||