Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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  1. Edith Wharton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels, which explore the world of the privileged in America's Gilded Age, in which she lived, written in hindsight and with little mercy.

    4 October 2018

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    Featuring: Hermione Lee, Bridget Bennett, Laura Rattray

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    Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translatorsKnights of the Legion of HonourAmerican autobiographers20th-century American women writersNovelists from New York (state), 19th-century American novelistsGhost story writers, 19th-century American short story writers19th-century American women writers, American women poets

  2. John Wesley and Methodism

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference John Wesley made during the Christian Revival of the 18th Century, developing Methodism into a major movement around the world

    10 December 2020

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    Featuring: Stephen Plant, Eryn White, William Gibson

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    ReligionAnglican saintsChristian humanistsChristian radicalsLutheran saintsPeople celebrated in the Lutheran liturgical calendarFounders of religionsEnglish abolitionistsAlumni of Christ Church, OxfordEnglish evangelicalsEnglish pamphleteersFounders of English schools and collegesGerman–English translators18th-century Anglican theologians18th-century English diarists18th-century evangelicalsChristian vegetariansChristianity in OxfordEnglish Anglican theologiansEnglish sermon writersTranslators of the Bible into English

  3. Mary Wollstonecraft

    Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and Barbara Taylor discuss the life and ideas of the pioneering British Enlightenment thinker Mary Wollstonecraft.

    31 December 2009

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, John Mullan, Barbara Taylor

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    PhilosophyEnlightenment philosophersEnglish essayistsEnglish travel writersWriters of Gothic fictionEnglish women novelistsBritish philosophers of educationScholars of feminist philosophyHistorians of the French RevolutionEnglish philosophersEnglish republicansEnglish women philosophersEnglish UnitariansFounders of English schools and collegesGerman–English translators18th-century British philosophersEnglish educational theoristsBritish women essayists18th-century English novelists18th-century British essayistsBurials at St Pancras Old Church18th-century English historiansDeaths in childbirthFrench–English translatorsFeminist theoristsPeople from Somers Town, LondonGodwin familyEnglish feminists, English feminist writers