Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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  1. Ada Lovelace

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century mathematician and hard living daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace.

    6 March 2008

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    Featuring: Patricia Fara, Doron Swade, John Fuegi

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  2. Aphra Behn

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Aphra Behn, known for her plays for the Restoration stage such as The Rover and for her novel Oroonoko.

    12 October 2017

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    Featuring: Janet Todd, Ros Ballaster, Claire Bowditch

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    CultureEnglish feminist writers, English feministsTory poetsBurials at Westminster Abbey17th-century English writersEnglish women poets17th-century English dramatists and playwrightsFeminism and historyEnglish women dramatists and playwrights17th-century English poets17th-century English women writersEnglish spiesEnglish women novelists

  3. Christina Rossetti

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.

    1 December 2011

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    Featuring: Dinah Birch, Rhian Williams, Nicholas Shrimpton

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  4. Fanny Burney

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, also known as Frances D'Arblay and Frances Burney, best known for her novel Evelina.

    23 April 2015

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    Featuring: Nicole Pohl, Judith Hawley, John Mullan

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  5. Stevie Smith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning, whose success has arguably overshadowed her wider work as a poet and novelist.

    16 Feb 2023

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    Featuring: Jeremy Noel-Tod, Noreen Masud, Will May

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  6. The Death of Elizabeth I

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its immediate impact, as a foreign monarch became King in the face of plots and plague.

    15 October 2009

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    Featuring: John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett

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