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The Executed Renaissance (or "Red Renaissance", Ukrainian: Розстріляне відродження, Червоний ренесанс, romanized: Rozstriliane vidrodzhennia, Chervonyi renesans) is a term used to describe the generation of Ukrainian language poets, writers, and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s who lived in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic and were subsequently persecuted, denied work, imprisoned and, in dozens of cases, shot during the Great Terror (August 1937 – November 1938). After the Great Turn in 1929 or "Great Breakthrough" (cf.

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Cicero

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Cicero's political ideas on laws, duty, tyrants and the republic, which he developed as the Roman Republic was threatened by Caesar and civil wars.

25 January 2018

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Featuring: Melissa Lane, Catherine Steel, Valentina Arena

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Philosophy Classical humanists Trope theorists Roman quaestors 1st-century BC Roman augurs, 1st-century BC Roman consuls Roman-era students in Athens Golden Age Latin writers People of the War of Mutina Letter writers in Latin Natural law ethicists 1st-century BC writers in Latin Ancient Roman equites, Ancient Roman exiles Ancient Roman jurists, Ancient Roman rhetoricians 2nd-century BC Romans Executed writers Executed philosophers Philosophers of Roman Italy Roman Republican praetors Deaths by blade weapons 1st century BC 2nd century BC Law Rome
Lorca

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of Federico Garcia Lorca, author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, executed by Franco's forces, his body unrecovered.

4 July 2019

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Featuring: Maria Delgado, Federico Bonaddio, Sarah Wright

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Culture Modernist theatre Spanish-language poets LGBTQ Roman Catholics Sonneteers Executed writers Gay dramatists and playwrights, Gay poets Language
Olympe de Gouges

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas and works of the Frenchwoman who wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman in 1791 during the French Revolution

21 April 2022

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Featuring: Catriona Seth, Katherine Astbury, Sanja Perovic

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Culture 18th-century French women writers 18th-century philosophers French deists Women in the French Revolution 18th-century French philosophers French abolitionists Women religious writers French women philosophers Deist philosophers Executed French women, French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution Executed writers Executed philosophers French political philosophers French women dramatists and playwrights 18th century France
Seneca the Younger

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Seneca: philosopher, playwright, tutor to Nero, one of the first great writers born in the new Roman empire after the fall of the Republic.

23 February 2017

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Featuring: Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, Alessandro Schiesaro

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Culture Roman-era Stoic philosophers Ancient Roman satirists People from Córdoba, Spain 1st-century Romans Forced suicides Letter writers in Latin Male essayists Ancient Roman encyclopedists Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome Suicides in Ancient Rome Executed writers Executed philosophers Silver Age Latin writers 1st-century writers 1st-century executions People executed by the Roman Empire 1st century Rome