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Fiona Stafford

Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford

3 episodes

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John Keats

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of one of the most celebrated Romantic poets and the works of his most intensely creative year from autumn 1818.

19 February 2026

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Also featuring: Nicholas Roe, Meiko O’Halloran

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Culture English letter writers Epic poets Alumni of King's College London 19th-century English poets 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Poets from London Romantic poets Sonneteers English male poets 19th-century English male writers 19th century 21st century
Persuasion

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Austen's final completed novel: the story of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, their broken engagement and their chance meeting 8 years later.

22 December 2022

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Also featuring: Karen O'Brien, Paddy Bullard

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Culture John Murray (publishing house) books British novels adapted into television shows Novels about nobility, Novels by Jane Austen British novels adapted into films Love stories British novels adapted into plays 1818 British novels Book
Robert Burns

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ayrshire farmer whose 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1786) set him on the way to a worldwide reputation as one of the great poets.

24 October 2019

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Also featuring: Robert Crawford, Murray Pittock

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Culture Romantic poets People of the Scottish Enlightenment Calvinist and Reformed poets 18th century Scotland