Scholars of Trinity College Dublin
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Bishop Berkeley
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosopher George Berkeley, one of the most significant thinkers of the 18th century.
20 March 2014
Featuring: Peter Millican, Tom Stoneham, Michela Massimi
PhilosophyEpistemologistsIdealistsAnglican philosophersPeople educated at Kilkenny CollegeAcademics of Trinity College Dublin18th-century Irish writersEnlightenment philosophers17th-century Anglo-Irish people17th-century Anglican theologiansScholars of Trinity College DublinAlumni of Trinity College DublinPhilosophers of science18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writers18th-century Irish philosophersEmpiricistsHistory of calculus18th-century Anglican theologiansOscar Wilde
Melvyn Bragg discusses Oscar Wilde, the Aesthetes and his literary legacy. Was Wilde a reactionary - the last of the romantics - or was he the midwife to modernism?
6 December 2001
Featuring: Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier, Neil Sammells
ConversationalistsIrish male poetsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismLGBTQ Roman CatholicsWriters of Gothic fictionFin de siècleIrish male dramatists and playwrightsBisexual male writersAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryVictorian novelistsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolAphoristsVictorian poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandLibertarian socialistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Anglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish expatriates in FranceBisexual poetsBisexual novelistsIrish male novelistsLGBTQ AnglicansBisexual journalistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsSamuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the author of Waiting for Godot, who lived in Paris and wrote in French as he found that more difficult than writing in English
17 January 2019
Featuring: Steven Connor, Laura Salisbury, Mark Nixon
Culture20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsNobel laureates in LiteratureExistentialistsPrix Italia winnersAbsurdist writersFormer AnglicansPeople with Parkinson's diseaseIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish essayistsBurials at Montparnasse Cemetery20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAcademics of Trinity College Dublin20th-century essayistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Irish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsFrench Resistance membersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish male novelistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinAnti-natalistsModernist writersPhilosophers of pessimism