
Protestants in the German Resistance
3 episodes
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Bertolt Brecht
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two.
25 April 2024
Featuring: Laura Bradley, David Barnett, Tom Kuhn
CultureGerman theatre directorsMarxist theoristsGerman Marxist writersGerman opera librettistsGerman male dramatists and playwrights, German male poetsGerman literary criticsProtestants in the German ResistanceExilliteratur writersBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryModernist theatreNaturalised citizens of AustriaDietrich Bonhoeffer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bonhoeffer's ideas about Christian ethics, the role of the Church in a secular world, and his attempts to overthrow Hitler.
27 September 2018
Featuring: Stephen Plant, Eleanor McLaughlin, Tom Greggs
Karl Barth
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Swiss theologian who aimed to put God and Christ at the heart of Christianity when he saw others making humanity and self-revelation its focus.
07 December 2023
Featuring: Stephen Plant, Christiane Tietz, Tom Greggs
ReligionFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesExistentialist theologiansFilioqueAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenSystematic theologiansProtestants in the German Resistance20th-century Swiss writersPeople associated with the University of BaselChristian ethicistsDuke University faculty