Jenny Uglow
Biographer of Elizabeth Gaskell
3 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Simon Schaffer
Covers topics in categories such as:
North and South
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, who set her 1855 novel in a version of Manchester she called Milton in the county of Darkshire.
9 March 2017
Also featuring: Sally Shuttleworth, Dinah Birch
Oxygen
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier and the Anglo-French feud that accompanied it.
15 November 2007
Also featuring: Simon Schaffer, Hasok Chang
The Lunar Society
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Birmingham based society of prominent 18th century scientists, engineers and intellectuals who pioneered the science of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.
5 June 2003
Also featuring: Simon Schaffer, Peter Jones