Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Nonlinear narrative novels

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique, sometimes used in literature, film, hypertext websites and other narratives, where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line. Most of the time, it is used to mimic the structure and recall of a character, but has been used for other reasons as well.

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  1. James Joyce's Ulysses

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.

    14 June 2012

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    Featuring: Steven Connor, Jeri Johnson, Richard Brown

     
  2. Tristram Shandy

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.

    24 April 2014

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    Featuring: Judith Hawley, John Mullan, Mary Newbould

     
  3. Wuthering Heights

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's story of Heathcliff and Cathy, of love, hatred, revenge and self-destruction across two generations in a remote moorland home.

    28 September 2017

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, John Bowen, Alexandra Lewis