English LGBTQ poets
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CultureEnglish male poetsEnglish essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersBritish male essayistsAmerican male non-fiction writersEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsModernist theatre20th-century English male writers20th-century English poetsAnglican poets20th-century English novelistsAmerican male essayists, American male poetsEnglish Catholic poetsEnglish people of Welsh descentLGBTQ Roman CatholicsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersNaturalized citizens of the United States20th-century American male writers20th-century English LGBTQ peopleAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordAmerican lecturersArtists' Rifles soldiersBisexual male writersBritish Army personnel of World War IEnglish Roman CatholicsEnglish emigrants to the United StatesEnglish literary criticsEnglish writers with disabilitiesFormalist poetsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderRoman Catholic writersWar writers20th-century American essayists20th-century English memoirists20th-century English non-fiction writersAmerican LGBTQ poetsAmerican male dramatists and playwrights, American literary criticsBisexual military personnelBisexual poetsDeaths from stomach cancer in EnglandEnglish World War I poets, Recipients of the Military CrossGay academicsGay poets, Gay dramatists and playwrightsLGBTQ AnglicansLost Generation writersPeople educated at Marlborough College
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
CultureEnglish male poetsEnglish essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersBritish male essayistsModernist theatreAmerican male non-fiction writersEnglish male dramatists and playwrights20th-century English poetsAnglican poets20th-century English male writersNaturalized citizens of the United StatesMembers of the American Academy of Arts and Letters20th-century American male writersEnglish LGBTQ poetsAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordEnglish emigrants to the United StatesEnglish literary criticsFormalist poetsAmerican lecturersAmerican LGBTQ poetsGay academics20th-century American essayists20th-century English non-fiction writersLGBTQ AnglicansAmerican male essayists, American male poetsAmerican male dramatists and playwrights, American literary criticsGay poets, Gay dramatists and playwrightsSiegfried 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
Featuring: Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton, Max Egremont
Culture20th-century English poets20th-century English male writers20th-century English novelistsLGBTQ Roman CatholicsEnglish Catholic poetsRoman Catholic writersWar writersBritish Army personnel of World War IPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderEnglish LGBTQ poets20th-century English LGBTQ peopleJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsEnglish Roman CatholicsBisexual male writersPeople educated at Marlborough College20th-century English memoiristsBisexual military personnelBisexual poetsDeaths from stomach cancer in EnglandEnglish World War I poets, Recipients of the Military CrossWilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Britain's greatest war poets, who published only 5 poems in his short life yet whose works became seen as a warning of the futility of wars.
27 October 2022
Featuring: Jane Potter, Fran Brearton, Guy Cuthbertson
CultureEnglish male poets20th-century English poets20th-century English male writersEnglish people of Welsh descentWar writersArtists' Rifles soldiersBritish Army personnel of World War IPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderEnglish LGBTQ poets20th-century English LGBTQ peopleEnglish writers with disabilitiesLost Generation writersEnglish World War I poets, Recipients of the Military Cross