Jane Stabler
Professor in Romantic Literature at the University of St Andrews
2 episodes
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1816, the Year Without a Summer
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the link between the eruption of Mt Tambora in 1815, the largest and most lethal in recorded history, with famines in Europe and America in 1816.
21 April 2016
Also featuring: Clive Oppenheimer, Lawrence Goldman
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the poem that made Byron famous.
6 January 2011
Also featuring: Jonathan Bate, Emily Bernhard Jackson