20th-century English non-fiction writers
The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts non-fictional elements, such as real historical figures and actual events, woven together with fictitious conversations and uses the storytelling techniques of fiction. The non-fiction novel is an otherwise loosely defined and flexible genre.
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CultureHistoryFellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish male poetsEnglish essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersRecipients of the Copley Medal20th-century atheistsBritish male essayistsEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish male novelistsEnglish people of Scottish descentAmerican male non-fiction writersEnglish male short story writersModernist theatre20th-century English male writers20th-century English poetsAnglican poetsEnglish atheistsRoyal Medal winners20th-century English novelistsCharles DarwinEnglish short story writersEnglish socialistsMembers of the Order of Merit20th-century English LGBTQ people20th-century translatorsAmerican male essayists, American male poetsBisexual male writersBisexual novelistsBritish Army personnel of World War IEnglish LGBTQ poetsEnglish literary criticsEnglish people of Irish descentEnglish writers with disabilitiesJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersNaturalized citizens of the United StatesPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderVictorian writers20th-century American male writers20th-century British biologists20th-century English memoiristsAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordAmerican lecturersBisexual memoiristsBisexual poetsEnglish World War I poetsEnglish activistsEnglish emigrants to the United StatesEnglish historical novelistsFormalist poetsGeorgistsPrix Italia winners19th-century British biologists, 19th-century English naturalists, British evolutionary biologists, Fellows of the Linnean Society of London, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellows of the Zoological Society of London19th-century British writers19th-century English scientists20th-century American essayistsAmerican LGBTQ poetsAmerican literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrightsBritish botanical illustratorsBritish deistsEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersGay academicsGay dramatists and playwrights, Gay poetsLGBTQ AnglicansOxford Professors of PoetryPeople educated at Charterhouse SchoolPeople from Monmouthshire
Alfred Russel Wallace
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian pioneer of evolutionary theory Alfred Russel Wallace.
21 March 2013
Featuring: Steve Jones, George Beccaloni, Ted Benton
HistoryRecipients of the Copley MedalBritish botanical illustrators19th-century English scientists20th-century British biologists19th-century British biologists, 19th-century English naturalists, British evolutionary biologists, Fellows of the Linnean Society of London, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellows of the Zoological Society of LondonGeorgistsEnglish activistsMembers of the Order of MeritEnglish people of Scottish descentEnglish socialists20th-century English non-fiction writersPeople from MonmouthshireRoyal Medal winnersVictorian writersFellows of the Royal Society19th-century British writersBritish deistsCharles Darwin19th century20th centuryAnimalsAuden
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss WH Auden's life and poetry from Europe before WWII, reflecting on his travels to Spain, China and Germany and the rise of totalitarianism.
19 December 2019
Featuring: Mark Ford, Janet Montefiore, Jeremy Noel-Tod
CultureEnglish literary criticsAmerican literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish emigrants to the United StatesAmerican male essayists, American male poets20th-century English non-fiction writersAmerican lecturersMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersOxford Professors of Poetry20th-century English male writersAmerican male non-fiction writersBritish male essayistsEnglish essayistsAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordFormalist poetsEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish male poetsEnglish LGBTQ poets20th-century American essayistsGay dramatists and playwrights, Gay poets20th-century American male writersAnglican poetsModernist theatreLGBTQ AnglicansAmerican LGBTQ poetsGay academicsNaturalized citizens of the United States20th-century English poetsEnglish male non-fiction writers20th centuryRobert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the author of I, Claudius, especially his love and war poems and his ideas on the source of all creativity.
10 October 2024
Featuring: Paul O'Prey, Fran Brearton, Bob Davis
CultureBisexual poetsEnglish literary criticsEnglish male novelists20th-century English non-fiction writersEnglish World War I poetsBisexual novelists20th-century English memoiristsOxford Professors of Poetry20th-century English male writersPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderBisexual memoirists20th-century atheistsEnglish male poetsEnglish people of Irish descentEnglish LGBTQ poetsEnglish short story writersJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersEnglish male short story writersEnglish writers with disabilitiesEnglish atheists20th-century translatorsBisexual male writers20th-century English novelistsEnglish historical novelistsPrix Italia winnersBritish Army personnel of World War I20th-century English poetsPeople educated at Charterhouse SchoolEnglish male non-fiction writers20th-century English LGBTQ people20th century