Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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CultureBritish novels adapted into television showsCensored booksNovels first published in serial formVictorian novelsEnglish novelsFemale characters in literatureNovels about adulteryFrench novels adapted into filmsNovels set in EnglandNovels set in the 1820sFrench novels adapted into operasNovels about suicideNovels by George EliotNovels set in 19th-century France

  1. Madame Bovary

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the literary sensation caused by the trial for indecency of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

    12 July 2007

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    Featuring: Andy Martin, Mary Orr, Robert Gildea

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    CultureCensored booksNovels first published in serial formNovels about adulteryFemale characters in literatureFrench novels adapted into filmsNovels set in 19th-century FranceRealist novelsNovels about suicideFrench novels adapted into operas

  2. Middlemarch

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's Study of Provincial Life, set before the Reform Act 1832 in a small, fictional town in the Midlands surrounded by farmland.

    18 April 2018

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    Featuring: Rosemary Ashton, Kathryn Hughes, John Bowen

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    CultureBritish novels adapted into television showsNovels first published in serial formVictorian novelsEnglish novelsNovels set in the 1820sNovels set in EnglandNovels by George EliotRealist novels