Claire Tomalin
literary biographer and author of Jane Austen: A Life and The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Sensibility
Melvyn Bragg discusses the philosophy of the 18th century literary cult of sensibility, how it merged into romanticism and why it was so often connected with illness, melancholia and nerves.
3 January 2002
Also featuring: John Mullan, Hermione Lee
London
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of London from its beginnings in the late Neolithic period, to the international, digitalised capital city of today, examining its past glories and darker times.
28 September 2000
Also featuring: Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair poet