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 writers19th-century German philosophersJewish philosophersWriters from Paris20th-century French philosophersFrench atheistsEnglish male dramatists and playwrights19th-century atheists17th-century English poetsPeople of the Elizabethan eraMarxist theoristsFormer Roman CatholicsModernist writersBurials at Père Lachaise Cemetery16th-century English poets17th-century English dramatists and playwrightsJewish socialists20th-century German philosophersConversationalistsFrench male non-fiction writers20th-century French novelistsEnglish Renaissance dramatistsEuropean democratic socialists19th-century German writersGerman Marxist writersFrench literary critics19th-century French philosophersFrench philosophers of artFrench LGBTQ novelistsLGBTQ Roman Catholics16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsGerman women philosophersGerman revolutionariesGerman Ashkenazi JewsLycée Condorcet alumni20th-century mysticsPeople with hypochondriasisFrench Roman Catholic writers19th-century mystics16th-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 journalists20th-century German women writersGerman anti-capitalists, German socialist feminists, Jewish communistsCommunist women writersEmigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany, Political party foundersHistoryDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench essayistsFrench short story writers19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people20th-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
HistoryGerman women philosophersEuropean democratic socialistsGerman revolutionaries19th-century German journalistsJewish socialists20th-century German women writers19th-century German writersGerman Marxist writersMarxist theoristsGerman Ashkenazi JewsGerman anti-capitalists, German socialist feminists, Jewish communistsCommunist women writers19th-century German philosophers20th-century German philosophersJewish philosophersEmigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany, Political party founders19th century20th centuryGermanyRussiaProust
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
Lycée Condorcet alumniDeaths from pneumonia in France, Prix Goncourt winnersFrench literary criticsConversationalistsFrench essayistsFrench male non-fiction writersFormer Roman Catholics20th-century mystics20th-century atheistsFrench short story writers20th-century French philosophers19th-century atheistsPeople with hypochondriasisModernist writersBurials at Père Lachaise Cemetery19th-century French philosophersFrench philosophers of art20th-century French novelistsFrench Roman Catholic writersFrench LGBTQ novelistsWriters from Paris19th-century French LGBTQ people, 20th-century French LGBTQ people20th-century French essayists, 20th-century French short story writersLGBTQ Roman CatholicsAphorists19th-century mysticsFrench atheistsPhilosophers of literature19th century20th centuryFranceShakespeare 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
English Renaissance dramatists16th-century English poets17th-century English poetsEnglish male dramatists and playwrights16th-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 Warwickshire16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsPeople of the Elizabethan eraSonneteers17th-century English male writersEnglish male poets17th-century English dramatists and playwrights16th century17th century