Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

British novels adapted into plays

13 episodes

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CultureBritish novels adapted into filmsBritish novels adapted into television showsNovels adapted into operasCensored booksNovels first published in serial formNovels adapted into comicsNovels adapted into balletsVictorian novelsFiction about suicideNovels adapted into radio programsEnglish novelsFrame storiesLove storiesAllegoryBritish novellasFemale characters in literatureJohn Murray (publishing house) booksMale characters in literatureNovels about adulteryPicaresque novelsWorks published under a pseudonym18th-century British novelsBritish Gothic novelsBritish science fiction novelsChapman & Hall booksDystopian novelsEpistolary novelsMaritime folkloreNovels about revengeNovels adapted into video gamesNovels set in EnglandNovels set in LondonNovels set in one dayNovels set in the 1820sRoman à clef novelsWorks published anonymously1818 British novels1840s fantasy novels, Ghost novels1847 British novelsAdventure film charactersAtlantic slave tradeBooks illustrated by Arthur RackhamBooks illustrated by John TennielBritish bildungsromansBritish comedy novelsBritish satirical novelsDisability in the artsHarper & Brothers booksNovels about nobility, Novels by Jane AustenNovels about rapeNovels about revolutionaries, Secker & Warburg books, Novels by George Orwell, Novels about totalitarianism, Novels about propaganda, British political novelsNovels about time travelNovels by George EliotNovels set in GermanyNovels set in YorkshireNovels set in fictional countriesNovels set in the 18th centuryNovels set in the 19th centurySmith, Elder & Co. booksSocial science fictionVegetarianism in fiction
  1. A Christmas Carol

    From Bah Humbug to God Bless Us Every One: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' story of Scrooge's salvation by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come.

    16 December 2021

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    Featuring: Juliet John, Jon Mee, Dinah Birch

     
  2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's work published in 1865 and inspired by telling stories to Alice Liddell and her sisters on picnics and boating trips in Oxford

    15 February 2024

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    Featuring: Franziska Kohlt, Kiera Vaclavik, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

     
  3. Animal Farm

    4 Extra Debut. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, which he struggled to publish in WW2 as the USSR was an ally. From 2016.

    29 September 2016

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    Featuring: Steven Connor, Mary Vincent, Robert Colls

     
  4. Emma

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Austen's novel Emma, which features, according to Austen, 'a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like'.

    19 November 2015

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    Featuring: Janet Todd, John Mullan, Emma Clery

     
  5. Fielding's Tom Jones

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henry Fielding's influential comic novel in which the hero Jones has such a fundamentally good nature that even his critics forgive his faults.

    13 June 2024

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    Featuring: Judith Hawley, Henry Power, Charlotte Roberts

     
  6. Frankenstein

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he makes from cadavers and then rejects - only for the monster to take his revenge

    16 May 2019

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, Michael Rossington, Jane Thomas

     
  7. Jane Eyre

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

    18 June 2015

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    Featuring: Dinah Birch, Karen O'Brien, Sara Lyons

     
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's dystopian novel where the state rewrites history, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength - and Big Brother is watching you

    15 September 2022

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    Featuring: David Dwan, Lisa Mullen, John Bowen

     
  9. Persuasion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Austen's final completed novel: the story of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, their broken engagement and their chance meeting 8 years later.

    22 December 2022

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, Fiona Stafford, Paddy Bullard

     
  10. Robinson Crusoe

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe. Published in 1719, it was an immediate success and is considered the classic adventure story.

    22 December 2011

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, Judith Hawley, Bob Owens

     
  11. Silas Marner

    Melvyn Bragg and guests Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and Valentine Cunningham discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.

    28 January 2010

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    Featuring: Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch, Valentine Cunningham

     
  12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, which challenged Victorian morality and made Hardy's fortune when published in the 1890s.

    5 May 2016

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    Featuring: Dinah Birch, Francis O'Gorman, Jane Thomas

     
  13. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's story of the mysterious Helen Graham who seeks a new independent life as an artist after escaping her abusive, alcoholic husband.

    30 September 2021

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    Featuring: Alexandra Lewis, Marianne Thormählen, John Bowen