Celeste-Marie Bernier
Professor of Black Studies in the English Department at the University of Edinburgh
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Anglican saintsCensored booksNovels first published in serial formNovels adapted into comics19th-century male writers19th-century American male writersAmerican novels adapted into films, American novels adapted into plays, American novels adapted into television showsActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican male journalistsAmerican lecturersAmerican autobiographersDeaths from coronary thrombosis19th-century American memoirists, People of the Six Years' War19th-century American businesspeopleUnderground Railroad peopleWriters from BaltimoreHistorySocial novels
Frederick Douglass
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the prominent abolitionist, who in 1845 told his story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
8 February 2018
Also featuring: Karen Salt, Nicholas Guyatt
History19th-century American male writers19th-century American memoirists, People of the Six Years' WarAnglican saintsActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican male journalists19th-century American businesspeopleUnderground Railroad peopleAmerican lecturersWriters from Baltimore19th-century male writersAmerican autobiographersDeaths from coronary thrombosis19th centuryUncle Tom's Cabin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', the bestselling American novel of the 19th century which has slavery as its central theme.
8 June 2006
Also featuring: Sarah Meer, Clive Webb