Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

NYRB Classics

New York Review Books (NYRB) is the publishing division of The New York Review of Books. Its imprints are New York Review Books Classics, New York Review Books Collections, The New York Review Children's Collection, New York Review Comics, New York Review Books Poets, and NYRB Lit.

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  1. Dante's Inferno

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Dante’s ‘Inferno’ - a journey through the nine circles of Hell. Dante was a medieval Italian poet and the Inferno, his greatest work, is a masterpiece of world literature.

    23 October 2008

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    Featuring: Margaret Kean, John Took, Claire Honess

     
  2. The Anatomy of Melancholy

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a masterpiece of 17th-century medicine and literature: Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

    12 May 2011

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    Featuring: Julie Sanders, Mary Ann Lund, Erin Sullivan