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Auden
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
CultureAmerican literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish male dramatists and playwrights20th-century English male writersAmerican male essayists, American male poets20th-century American male writersAmerican male non-fiction writersEnglish LGBTQ poetsGay academics20th-century English poets20th-century English non-fiction writersGay dramatists and playwrights, Gay poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersEnglish emigrants to the United StatesAnglican poetsAmerican lecturersModernist theatre20th-century American essayistsEnglish male poetsAmerican LGBTQ poetsEnglish literary criticsAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordNaturalized citizens of the United StatesEnglish essayistsFormalist poetsLGBTQ AnglicansOxford Professors of PoetryEnglish male non-fiction writersBritish male essayistsJohn Ruskin
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and work of John Ruskin, art and social critic, and one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era.
31 March 2005
Featuring: Dinah Birch, Keith Hanley, Stefan Collini
Alumni of Christ Church, OxfordEnglish children's writersEnglish philosophersArtists' Rifles soldiers19th-century British economistsCritics of political economyEnglish essayistsCritics of work and the work ethicEnglish fantasy writersArts and Crafts movement artistsArchitectural theoreticiansMale essayistsAlumni of King's College LondonAnti-consumeristsAnglo-ScotsEnglish people of Scottish descent19th-century British journalistsJohn Wesley and Methodism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference John Wesley made during the Christian Revival of the 18th Century, developing Methodism into a major movement around the world
10 December 2020
Featuring: Stephen Plant, Eryn White, William Gibson
ReligionEnglish sermon writersChristian humanists18th-century English diaristsLutheran saints18th-century evangelicalsEnglish abolitionistsChristian vegetariansFounders of religionsPeople educated at Charterhouse SchoolEnglish evangelicalsPeople celebrated in the Lutheran liturgical calendarEnglish pamphleteersChristianity in OxfordGerman–English translatorsChristian radicalsEnglish Anglican theologians18th-century Anglican theologiansFounders of English schools and collegesAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordAnglican saintsTranslators of the Bible into English