Charlotte Roberts
Associate Professor of English Literature at University College London
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureFellows of the Royal SocietyBritish novels adapted into filmsTheorists on Western civilizationBritish novels adapted into playsNovels adapted into operasEnglish essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersBritish male essayistsEnglish novelsBritish critics of religions18th-century English male writersIrony theoristsRhetoric theoristsPicaresque novels18th-century British novelsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordPeople educated at Westminster School, LondonBritish MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituenciesFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England18th-century English non-fiction writersEnglish rhetoriciansBritish MPs 1774–1780English Protestants18th-century English historians
Fielding's Tom Jones
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henry Fielding's influential comic novel in which the hero Jones has such a fundamentally good nature that even his critics forgive his faults.
13 June 2024
Also featuring: Judith Hawley, Henry Power
Edward Gibbon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the writer of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the most celebrated works of its kind.
17 June 2021
Also featuring: David Womersley, Karen O'Brien
CultureEnglish rhetoriciansFellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish essayistsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBritish MPs 1774–1780British critics of religionsEnglish ProtestantsEnglish male non-fiction writers18th-century English historiansPeople educated at Westminster School, LondonBritish MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituenciesFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England18th-century English non-fiction writersTheorists on Western civilization18th-century English male writersIrony theoristsRhetoric theoristsBritish male essayists