Jacqueline Rose
Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
3 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
English male poetsPhilosophers of literatureSonneteersAphorists20th-century atheists17th-century English male writersJewish philosophers19th-century German philosophersWriters from ParisFrench atheists20th-century French philosophersEnglish male dramatists and playwrights19th-century atheistsPeople of the Elizabethan era17th-century English poetsMarxist theoristsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryFormer Roman CatholicsModernist writers17th-century English dramatists and playwrights16th-century English poets20th-century German philosophersJewish socialistsConversationalists20th-century French novelistsFrench male non-fiction writersEnglish Renaissance dramatistsGerman Marxist writersEuropean democratic socialists19th-century German writersFrench philosophers of art19th-century French philosophersLGBTQ Roman CatholicsFrench literary criticsFrench LGBTQ novelists16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsGerman revolutionariesGerman Ashkenazi JewsGerman women philosophers19th-century mysticsFrench Roman Catholic writersPeople with hypochondriasis20th-century mysticsLycée Condorcet alumni16th-century English male actors, 17th-century English male actors, Burials in Warwickshire, English male stage actors, King's Men (playing company), Male actors from Stratford-upon-Avon, People educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare family, William Shakespeare, Writers from Warwickshire19th-century German journalistsGerman anti-capitalists, German socialist feminists, Jewish communists20th-century German women writersEmigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany, Political party foundersCommunist women writersHistory19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ peopleDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench essayistsFrench short story writers20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writers
Rosa Luxemburg
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rosa Luxemburg, 'Red Rosa', a leading revolutionary and agitator in Poland and Germany until her arrest and murder in the Spartacus Revolt 1919.
13 April 2017
Also featuring: Mark Jones, Nadine Rossol
HistoryJewish philosophers19th-century German journalistsMarxist theoristsGerman Marxist writersEuropean democratic socialistsGerman revolutionaries19th-century German writersGerman anti-capitalists, German socialist feminists, Jewish communists20th-century German women writersGerman Ashkenazi JewsGerman women philosophers19th-century German philosophersEmigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany, Political party founders20th-century German philosophersCommunist women writersJewish socialistsProust
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and achievements of the 19th century French novelist Marcel Proust whose 3000 page work À La Recherche du Temps Perdu has been called the definitive modern novel.
17 April 2003
Also featuring: Malcolm Bowie, Robert Fraser
Conversationalists20th-century atheistsFrench philosophers of art19th-century French philosophersLGBTQ Roman Catholics19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people19th-century mysticsPhilosophers of literatureFrench Roman Catholic writersFrench atheistsBurials at Père Lachaise Cemetery20th-century French novelistsFormer Roman CatholicsAphoristsDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench male non-fiction writersFrench literary criticsPeople with hypochondriasisFrench essayists19th-century atheists20th-century mystics20th-century French philosophersLycée Condorcet alumniFrench short story writersFrench LGBTQ novelistsWriters from ParisModernist writers20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writersShakespeare and Literary Criticism
Melvyn Bragg discusses the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare and examines whether literary criticism and the academic institution ruins the pleasure of reading.
4 March 1999
Also featuring: Harold Bloom
16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsSonneteersEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsEnglish male poetsPeople of the Elizabethan era17th-century English dramatists and playwrights16th-century English poets17th-century English male writers17th-century English poetsEnglish Renaissance dramatists16th-century English male actors, 17th-century English male actors, Burials in Warwickshire, English male stage actors, King's Men (playing company), Male actors from Stratford-upon-Avon, People educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare family, William Shakespeare, Writers from Warwickshire