Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Shirley Graham Du Bois (born Lola Shirley Graham Jr.; November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes, among others. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works.

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  1. Rosa Luxemburg

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rosa Luxemburg, 'Red Rosa', a leading revolutionary and agitator in Poland and Germany until her arrest and murder in the Spartacus Revolt 1919.

    13 April 2017

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    Featuring: Jacqueline Rose, Mark Jones, Nadine Rossol

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    History19th-century German philosophersJewish philosophersMarxist theoristsJewish socialists20th-century German philosophersGerman Marxist writersEuropean democratic socialists19th-century German writersGerman Ashkenazi JewsGerman revolutionariesGerman women philosophers19th-century German journalists20th-century German women writersCommunist women writersEmigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany, Political party foundersGerman anti-capitalists, Jewish communists, German socialist feminists

  2. Simone de Beauvoir

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simone de Beauvoir - her work on existentialist ethics, philosophy and literature and her influence on feminism.

    22 October 2015

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    Featuring: Christina Howells, Margaret Atack, Ursula Tidd

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    PhilosophyAtheist philosophersWriters from ParisFrench atheistsUniversity of Paris alumniPhilosophers of sexualityExistentialistsFrench political philosophers20th-century French philosophersFrench women philosophersFrench philosophers of education20th-century French novelistsFormer Roman CatholicsScholars of feminist philosophyFrench feministsFrench women novelistsFrench LGBTQ novelistsFrench literary critics20th-century French women writersBisexual novelistsBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryFrench communistsJerusalem Prize recipientsFrench philosophers of artSocialist feministsFeminist studies scholarsCommunist women writers20th-century French memoiristsFeminist theoristsFrench bisexual women, French bisexual writersBisexual memoirists, Bisexual women writersPrix Goncourt winners, Deaths from pneumonia in FranceFrench Marxists, French anti-war activists