
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:
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
Also featuring: Erin Forbes, Tom Wright
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
Also featuring: Erin Forbes, Tom Wright
CultureRomantic poetsAmerican literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrightsAmerican male novelistsAmerican male essayists, American male poets19th-century American essayistsAmerican male non-fiction writersUnited States Military Academy alumni19th-century American male writersWriters of Gothic fictionEpic poets19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writersAmerican people of English descentRecreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from PhiladelphiaHall of Fame for Great Americans inductees19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)19th-century pseudonymous writers19th-century American poets19th-century American non-fiction writersWriters from BaltimoreSurrealist writersEdith 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
Also featuring: Hermione Lee, Laura Rattray
Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translators19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writers20th-century American women writersAmerican autobiographers19th-century American women writers, American women poets19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)Knights of the Legion of HonourMoby 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
Also featuring: Katie McGettigan, Graham Thompson