Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Novels set in one day

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича, romanized: Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, IPA: [ɐˈdʲin ˈdʲenʲ ɪˈvanə dʲɪˈnʲisəvʲɪtɕə]) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

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  1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lewis Carroll's work published in 1865 and inspired by telling stories to Alice Liddell and her sisters on picnics and boating trips in Oxford

    15 February 2024

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    Featuring: Franziska Kohlt, Kiera Vaclavik, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

     
  2. 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

     
  3. Mrs Dalloway

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, published in 1925.

    3 July 2014

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    Featuring: Hermione Lee, Jane Goldman, Kathryn Simpson