Diane Purkiss
Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford
4 episodes
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The Spanish Armada
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Spanish Armada, the fleet which attempted to invade Elizabethan England in 1588.
7 October 2010
Also featuring: Maria Jose Rodriguez-Salgado, Nicholas Rodger
The Trial of Charles I
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the trial of Charles I, recounting the high drama in Westminster Hall and the ideas that led to the execution.
4 June 2009
Also featuring: Justin Champion, David Wootton
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Was Henry’s policy an act of grand larceny or the pious destruction of a corrupt institution?
27 March 2008
Also featuring: Diarmaid MacCulloch, George Bernard
Fairies
Melvyn Bragg discusses the literary and visual depiction of fairies. Supernatural creatures inhabiting a half-way world between this one and the next, fairies are ubiquitous in human culture.
11 May 2006
Also featuring: Juliette Wood, Nicola Bown