Trope theorists
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Cicero
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Cicero's political ideas on laws, duty, tyrants and the republic, which he developed as the Roman Republic was threatened by Caesar and civil wars.
25 January 2018
Featuring: Melissa Lane, Catherine Steel, Valentina Arena
Philosophy1st-century BC Roman augurs, 1st-century BC Roman consulsPhilosophers of Roman ItalyRoman-era students in AthensDeaths by blade weaponsNatural law ethicistsTrope theoristsAncient Roman equites, Ancient Roman exilesAncient Roman jurists, Ancient Roman rhetoriciansExecuted writers1st-century BC writers in LatinExecuted philosophersRoman Republican praetorsLetter writers in LatinGolden Age Latin writersRoman quaestors2nd-century BC RomansPeople of the War of MutinaClassical humanistsDickens
Melvyn Bragg discusses the achievements of Charles Dickens What is his political and literary legacy to our age?
12 July 2001
Featuring: Rosemary Ashton, Michael Slater, John Bowen
English travel writersEnglish prisoners and detaineesEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish AnglicansLiteracy and society theoristsAnglican writersEnglish male short story writersWriters of Gothic fictionEnglish philanthropistsEnglish historical novelistsTrope theoristsBurials at Westminster AbbeyVictorian novelists19th-century English novelists19th-century travel writers19th-century English non-fiction writers19th-century British journalists19th-century English historians19th-century British philanthropistsEnglish male novelistsBritish critics of religionsCritics of the Catholic ChurchPeople from Somers Town, LondonEnglish male poets19th-century pseudonymous writersLecturersEnglish reformers19th-century English dramatists and playwrights19th-century English poets19th-century British short story writersEnglish satiristsWriters about activism and social changeEnglish male non-fiction writersWriters from the London Borough of Camden19th-century English essayistsBritish social reformersBritish male essayistsJorge Luis Borges
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Argentinian master of the short story, Jorge Luis Borges.
4 January 2007
Featuring: Edwin Williamson, Efraín Kristal, Evelyn Fishburn
Postmodern writers, Recipients of the Legion of HonourBlind writersLiteracy and society theoristsPhilosophers of literatureTrope theoristsPhilosophers of identityMetaphor theoristsAphoristsJerusalem Prize recipientsCommanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyPhilosophers of cultureAnthologistsPhilosophers of artLiterary theorists20th-century essayistsPhilosophers of mathematics20th-century translatorsPhilosophers of timeMagic realism writers20th-century mysticsPhilosophers of mindLecturersBlind poetsSonneteersHaiku poetsSpanish-language poetsPhilosophers of pessimismMetaphysics writersSurrealist writersJoyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing up in Catholic Ireland.
26 November 2009
Featuring: Roy Foster, Katherine Mullin, Jeri Johnson
Culture20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsIrish male novelistsHumor researchersIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsModernismTrope theoristsEyepatch wearersLiterary theoristsMetaphor theoristsDeaths from ulcers20th-century letter writers20th-century Irish novelists, 20th-century Irish short story writers, Irish male short story writersModernist writersIrish expatriates in FranceIrish satiristsIrony theoristsSurrealist writersThe Venerable Bede
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Venerable Bede, who revolutionised history and scholarship, and became adopted by Rome as the last of the founding fathers of Christian religion.
25 November 2004
Featuring: Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot, Michelle Brown
ReligionMedieval English theologiansEnglish Roman Catholic saintsEnglish Christian theologiansTrope theoristsDoctors of the ChurchAnglican saintsNorthumbrian saints8th-century Christian theologians, 8th-century English writers, 8th-century writers in Latin, Anglo-Saxon poets, Anglo-Saxon writersChristian hagiographersLutheran saintsHistory of Catholicism in England