Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Reverend Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include Silverpoints, The Long Road and Park: A Fantastic Story. It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray despite evidence to the contrary.

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  1. Chaucer

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Geoffrey Chaucer who immortalised the medieval pilgrimage and the diversity of 14th century English society, in his Canterbury Tales.

    9 February 2006

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    Featuring: Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper, Ardis Butterfield

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  2. Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works of Hopkins, unpublished in his lifetime, who FR Leavis called 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age and the greatest'.

    21 March 2019

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    Featuring: Catherine Phillips, Jane Wright, Martin Dubois

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  3. Pope

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the satirist Alexander Pope. One of the greatest poets of the English language, his brilliant satires have made him popular in our age but not in his own.

    9 November 2006

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    Featuring: John Mullan, Jim McLaverty, Valerie Rumbold

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  4. Siegfried Sassoon

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon; a homosexual war hero who became a bitter opponent of the First World War and a devout Catholic.

    7 June 2007

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    Featuring: Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton, Max Egremont

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