Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Christina Howells

Professor of French and Fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford

5 episodes

Covers topics in categories such as:

PhilosophyCultureOntologistsPhilosophy writersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesTheorists on Western civilizationPhilosophers of mindPhilosophers of literatureWriters about activism and social changeMetaphysiciansPhilosophers of religionMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyWriters about religion and scienceAphoristsAtheist philosophers20th-century atheistsPhilosophers of social scienceNobel laureates in LiteratureExistentialistsWriters from ParisUniversity of Paris alumniMetaphilosophersForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesJewish philosophersPhilosophers of sexualityFrench atheistsFrench political philosophers20th-century French philosophersMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesPhilosophical schools and traditionsSocial theoriesLiteracy and society theoristsPhilosophers of languageFormer Roman CatholicsFrench philosophers of educationFrench women philosophersFrench philosophers of scienceMembers of the Académie Française20th-century essayistsModernist writersModernism20th-century French novelistsPhenomenologistsWriters about globalizationFrench philosophers of historyFrench male non-fiction writersFrench philosophers of cultureMetaphysics writersPhilosophers of deathLegion of Honour refusalsFrench socialistsÉcole Normale Supérieure alumniPhilosophy of lifeFrench philosophers of artFrench feministsFrench literary criticsBisexual novelistsFrench women novelistsFrench LGBTQ novelistsScholars of feminist philosophyFrench sociologistsCritical theoristsFrench epistemologistsFrench Nobel laureatesLibertarian socialistsPhilosophers of pessimismSocialist feministsFrench communistsFrench bisexual women, French bisexual writersBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryJerusalem Prize recipientsBisexual memoirists20th-century French women writersPhilosophers of linguisticsGrand Cross of the Legion of HonourAcademic staff of the Collège de FranceIntellectual historyJewish atheistsLycée Condorcet alumniAbsurdist writersFrench humanistsFrench anarchists, French anti-capitalists, French anti-fascistsLycée Henri-IV alumniBlind writersLycée Louis-le-Grand alumniFrench Resistance membersCriticism of rationalismFeminist theoristsBisexual women writers20th-century French memoiristsFeminist studies scholarsCommunist women writersDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench Marxists, French anti-war activistsLinguists from FranceCorresponding fellows of the British AcademyJewish historiansThe New School faculty20th-century French male writersFrench essayistsWriters about communismAnti-Stalinist left20th-century French dramatists and playwrightsFrench male essayists20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writersPhilosophers of nihilismFrench biographers, French ethicistsContinental philosophersFree love advocatesFrench magazine foundersFrench scientists with disabilitiesScholars of antisemitismIndividualismMetaphysical theories
  1. Simone de Beauvoir

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simone de Beauvoir - her work on existentialist ethics, philosophy and literature and her influence on feminism.

    22 October 2015

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    Also featuring: Margaret Atack, Ursula Tidd

     
  2. Lévi-Strauss

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

    23 May 2013

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    Also featuring: Adam Kuper, Vincent Debaene

     
  3. Camus

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Nobel Prize winning Algerian-French writer and existentialist philosopher Albert Camus.

    3 January 2008

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    Also featuring: Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker

     
  4. Sartre

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and works of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

    7 October 2004

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    Also featuring: Jonathan Rée, Benedict O'Donohoe

     
  5. Existentialism

    Melvyn Bragg discusses existentialism, a twentieth century philosophy of everyday life concerned with the individual, and his or her place within the world.

    28 June 2001

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    Also featuring: A. C. Grayling, Simon Critchley