Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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  1. George Herbert

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of 'the most beautiful poem in the world' whose works on his relationship with God offered comfort to Charles I when he faced execution.

    7 November 2024

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    Featuring: Helen Wilcox, Victoria Moul, Simon Jackson

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  2. Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works of Hopkins, unpublished in his lifetime, who FR Leavis called 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age and the greatest'.

    21 March 2019

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    Featuring: Catherine Phillips, Jane Wright, Martin Dubois

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  3. John Donne

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the extraordinary life and work of one of England's finest love poets and, as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, most remarkable preachers.

    12 January 2023

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    Featuring: Mary Ann Lund, Sue Wiseman, Hugh Adlington

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