Fiona Stafford
Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureBritish novels adapted into filmsBritish novels adapted into television showsBritish novels adapted into playsLove storiesRomantic poetsJohn Murray (publishing house) booksCalvinist and Reformed poets1818 British novelsNovels about nobility, Novels by Jane AustenPeople of the Scottish Enlightenment
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
Also featuring: Karen O'Brien, Paddy Bullard
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
Also featuring: Robert Crawford, Murray Pittock