Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Bridget Bennett

Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds

4 episodes

Appears in multiple episodes with: Erin Forbes, Tom Wright

Covers topics in categories such as:

  1. Little Women

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's much-read and much-adapted story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March which is credited with starting the genre of young adult fiction

    24 October 2024

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    Also featuring: Erin Forbes, Tom Wright

     
  2. Edgar Allan Poe

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer of The Raven and Gothic horror stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher.

    30 November 2023

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    Also featuring: Erin Forbes, Tom Wright

     
  3. Edith Wharton

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels, which explore the world of the privileged in America's Gilded Age, in which she lived, written in hindsight and with little mercy.

    4 October 2018

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    Also featuring: Hermione Lee, Laura Rattray

     
  4. Moby Dick

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville, the story of Ahab and the white whale, the most popular of around 1,000 ideas that listeners submitted.

    7 December 2017

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    Also featuring: Katie McGettigan, Graham Thompson