Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Susie Boniface (born 1976 or 1977 in Tonbridge, Kent) is a British journalist and author who has written for several newspapers and uses the pseudonym Fleet Street Fox in her Daily Mirror column and on Twitter. She used the name Lillys Miles while writing an anonymous blog, but revealed her identity when her book Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox was published in 2013.

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  1. Anna Akhmatova

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) whose work was banned under Stalin and who lived under constant threat of the gulags.

    18 January 2018

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    Featuring: Katharine Hodgson, Alexandra Harrington, Michael Basker

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    CulturePseudonymous women writers20th-century pseudonymous writers20th-century translatorsCensorship in the Soviet UnionNobility from the Russian Empire

  2. George Sand

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work and life of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin who in C19th France wrote many extremely successful novels, under the name George Sand

    6 February 2020

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    Featuring: Belinda Jack, Angela Ryan, Nigel Harkness

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    CultureWriters from Paris19th-century pseudonymous writersLegion of Honour refusalsPseudonymous women writersFrench women novelistsFrench LGBTQ novelistsFrench socialists19th-century French letter writers19th-century French novelists, 19th-century French women writersFrench bisexual women, French bisexual writers

  3. Mary Astell

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731) who has been described as "the first English feminist".

    5 November 2020

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    Featuring: Hannah Dawson, Mark Goldie, Teresa Bejan

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    Philosophy17th-century English writersPseudonymous women writers17th-century English philosophers18th-century English writersFeminism and history18th-century English non-fiction writers18th-century British philosophersEnglish educational theoristsEnglish women activistsEnglish women non-fiction writers18th-century pseudonymous writersEnglish rhetoricians17th-century English educators17th-century English women writers18th-century English women writersBritish women's rights activists18th-century English philosophersFeminist studies scholarsEnglish feminists, English feminist writers

  4. Stevie Smith

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer best known for her poem Not Waving But Drowning, whose success has arguably overshadowed her wider work as a poet and novelist.

    16 Feb 2023

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    Featuring: Jeremy Noel-Tod, Noreen Masud, Will May

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    CultureEnglish women poetsEnglish atheistsEnglish women novelists20th-century English poetsPseudonymous women writers20th-century English novelists20th-century pseudonymous writersEnglish humanists