Fran Brearton
Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast
6 episodes
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CultureEnglish male poetsSonneteersEnglish male non-fiction writers20th-century atheistsNobel laureates in LiteratureEnglish male novelistsEnglish male short story writersModernist theatre20th-century English male writersEnglish atheists20th-century English poetsAnglican poetsIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish male poetsEnglish short story writers20th-century English novelistsIrish AnglicansIrish expatriates in FranceEnglish Roman CatholicsEnglish literary criticsBisexual novelistsPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderEnglish people of Irish descentEnglish LGBTQ poetsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsEnglish writers with disabilities20th-century translatorsBisexual male writersBritish Army personnel of World War I20th-century English LGBTQ peopleEnglish people of Welsh descentFellows of the Royal Society of Literature20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersVictorian writersEnglish Catholic poetsLGBTQ Roman CatholicsBisexual poets20th-century English non-fiction writersEnglish World War I poets20th-century English memoiristsBisexual memoiristsEnglish historical novelistsPrix Italia winnersArtists' Rifles soldiersWar writers19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsAnthologistsFormalist poetsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsRoman Catholic writersOxford Professors of PoetryEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersPeople educated at Charterhouse SchoolRecipients of the Military CrossLost Generation writersChristian poetryModernist poems, Poetry by T. S. EliotAbbey Theatre, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, Butler Yeats family, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Irish Dominion League, Irish folklorists, Irish occult writers, Irish occultists, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, People educated at The High School, Dublin, People from Sandymount, People from West Kensington, Protestant Irish nationalists, Symbolist poets, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholarsPeople educated at Marlborough CollegeBisexual military personnelDeaths from stomach cancer in England
Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the author of I, Claudius, especially his love and war poems and his ideas on the source of all creativity.
10 October 2024
Also featuring: Paul O'Prey, Bob Davis
CultureBisexual poetsEnglish literary criticsEnglish male novelists20th-century English non-fiction writersEnglish World War I poetsBisexual novelists20th-century English memoiristsOxford Professors of Poetry20th-century English male writersPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderBisexual memoirists20th-century atheistsEnglish male poetsEnglish people of Irish descentEnglish LGBTQ poetsEnglish short story writersJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersEnglish male short story writersEnglish writers with disabilitiesEnglish atheists20th-century translatorsBisexual male writers20th-century English novelistsEnglish historical novelistsPrix Italia winnersBritish Army personnel of World War I20th-century English poetsPeople educated at Charterhouse SchoolEnglish male non-fiction writers20th-century English LGBTQ people20th centuryWilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Britain's greatest war poets, who published only 5 poems in his short life yet whose works became seen as a warning of the futility of wars.
27 October 2022
Also featuring: Jane Potter, Guy Cuthbertson
CultureEnglish people of Welsh descentRecipients of the Military CrossPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderArtists' Rifles soldiersBritish Army personnel of World War I20th-century English poetsEnglish World War I poetsLost Generation writersEnglish male poetsEnglish LGBTQ poetsWar writersEnglish writers with disabilities20th-century English LGBTQ people20th-century English male writers20th centuryFour Quartets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, written just before and during World War II as meditations on humanity's relationship with time.
22 December 2016
Also featuring: David Moody, Mark Ford
The Waste Land and Modernity
Yeats and Irish Politics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet W.B. Yeats and Irish politics from the suspension of home rule to the division of Ireland.
17 April 2008
Also featuring: Roy Foster, Warwick Gould
CultureFellows of the Royal Society of Literature19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsAnglican poetsAnthologists20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century Irish male writers, 20th-century Irish poetsModernist theatreIrish AnglicansFormalist poetsIrish expatriates in FranceIrish male dramatists and playwrightsIrish Nobel laureates, Irish modernist poetsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersSonneteersNobel laureates in LiteratureVictorian writersIrish male poetsAbbey Theatre, Alumni of the National College of Art and Design, Burials in the Republic of Ireland, Butler Yeats family, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Independent members of Seanad Éireann, Irish Dominion League, Irish folklorists, Irish occult writers, Irish occultists, Members of the 1922 Seanad, Members of the 1925 Seanad, Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, People educated at The High School, Dublin, People from Sandymount, People from West Kensington, Protestant Irish nationalists, Symbolist poets, W. B. Yeats, William Blake scholars19th century20th centuryIrelandSiegfried Sassoon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon; a homosexual war hero who became a bitter opponent of the First World War and a devout Catholic.
7 June 2007
Also featuring: Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Max Egremont
Bisexual poetsRecipients of the Military CrossEnglish Catholic poetsEnglish World War I poets20th-century English memoirists20th-century English male writersPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderEnglish LGBTQ poetsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersEnglish Roman CatholicsPeople educated at Marlborough CollegeWar writersRoman Catholic writersBisexual military personnelDeaths from stomach cancer in EnglandBisexual male writers20th-century English novelistsBritish Army personnel of World War I20th-century English poetsLGBTQ Roman Catholics20th-century English LGBTQ people20th centuryWar