Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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  1. 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

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    Featuring: Mark Ford, Janet Montefiore, Jeremy Noel-Tod

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  2. Frederick Douglass

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the prominent abolitionist, who in 1845 told his story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

    9 February 2018

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    Featuring: Celeste-Marie Bernier, Karen Salt, Nicholas Guyatt

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  3. Thoreau and the American Idyll

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American 19th century writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau

    15 January 2009

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    Featuring: Kathleen Burk, Tim Morris, Stephen Fender

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