Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

English male dramatists and playwrights

Simon Woods (born 7 January 1980) is an English actor and playwright best known for his role as Octavian in Season 2 of the British-American television series Rome and the 2005 Pride & Prejudice as Charles Bingley. == Personal life == Woods attended Eton College, then read English at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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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

     
  2. Dickens

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the achievements of Charles Dickens What is his political and literary legacy to our age?

    12 July 2001

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    Featuring: Rosemary Ashton, Michael Slater, John Bowen

     
  3. Marlowe

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Christopher Marlowe; a forger, a brawler, a spy, but above all a playwright, a poet and the most celebrated writer of his generation.

    7 July 2005

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    Featuring: Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith

     
  4. Milton

    Melvyn Bragg examines the literary and political career of the 17th century poet John Milton, examining work such as Paradise Lost as well as his role as propagandist during the English Civil War.

    7 March 2002

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    Featuring: John Carey, Lisa Jardine, Blair Worden

     
  5. Shakespeare and Literary Criticism

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and examines whether literary criticism and the academic institution ruins the pleasure of reading.

    4 March 1999

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    Featuring: Harold Bloom, Jacqueline Rose

     
  6. Shakespeare's Life

    Melvyn Bragg discusses what we know about the life of William Shakespeare, a tantalising conundrum that has exercised minds since the day the playwright died.

    15 March 2001

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    Featuring: Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo

     
  7. Shakespeare's Work

    Melvyn Bragg discusses whether the work of William Shakespeare is 'not of an age but for all time' or increasingly irrelevant museum pieces embalmed in out of reach language.

    11 May 2000

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    Featuring: Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer

     
  8. Thomas Middleton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the star writers for the London stage in the age of Shakespeare, much in demand for his own work and for rewriting the work of others.

    20 March 2025

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    Featuring: Emma Smith, Lucy Munro, Michelle O’Callaghan