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 novels18th-century English male writersBritish critics of religionsIrony theoristsRhetoric theoristsPicaresque novels18th-century British novels18th-century English non-fiction writersAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordMembers of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies, British MPs 1780–178418th-century English historiansBritish MPs 1774–1780English ProtestantsEnglish rhetoriciansFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of EnglandPeople educated at Westminster School, London
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
CultureFellows of the Royal SocietyTheorists on Western civilizationEnglish essayistsEnglish male non-fiction writersBritish male essayists18th-century English male writersBritish critics of religionsIrony theoristsRhetoric theorists18th-century English non-fiction writersAlumni of Magdalen College, Oxford18th-century English historiansBritish MPs 1774–1780English ProtestantsEnglish rhetoriciansFreemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of EnglandPeople educated at Westminster School, LondonMembers of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies, British MPs 1780–1784