David Bradshaw
Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureEnglish male poetsBritish novels adapted into filmsPhilosophers of literatureEnglish essayistsEnglish male novelistsEnglish male short story writersEnglish agnosticsAnti-consumeristsPhilosophers of technologyEnglish satiristsEnglish travel writersEnglish short story writersMale essayists20th-century English novelistsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsBritish philosophers of mind20th-century English philosophersChapman & Hall booksEnglish emigrants to the United States20th-century British essayists20th-century mysticsNew Age predecessorsBritish comedy novelsAlumni of Balliol College, OxfordBritish philosophers of culture, English pacifistsEnglish science fiction writersPeople educated at Eton CollegeLost Generation writersDuke University faculty
Decline and Fall
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Evelyn Waugh's comic novel Decline and Fall, published when the author was 25.
21 February 2013
Also featuring: John Bowen, Ann Pasternak Slater
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World and its vision of a future of test tube babies, free love and round-the-clock surveillance.
9 April 2009
Also featuring: Daniel Pick, Michèle Barrett
CultureEnglish agnosticsEnglish male novelistsEnglish emigrants to the United StatesAlumni of Balliol College, OxfordBritish philosophers of culture, English pacifistsEnglish science fiction writersEnglish essayists20th-century British essayists20th-century mysticsPeople educated at Eton CollegeEnglish male poetsEnglish short story writersJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsAnti-consumeristsPhilosophers of technologyEnglish male short story writersMale essayistsNew Age predecessorsBritish philosophers of mindLost Generation writersEnglish satiristsDuke University faculty20th-century English novelists20th-century English philosophersEnglish travel writersPhilosophers of literature20th century