Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Judith Hawley

Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

14 episodes

Appears in multiple episodes with: John Mullan, Karen O'Brien, John Mullan

Covers topics in categories such as:

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  1. Fielding's Tom Jones

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henry Fielding's influential comic novel in which the hero Jones has such a fundamentally good nature that even his critics forgive his faults.

    13 June 2024

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    Also featuring: Henry Power, Charlotte Roberts

     
  2. John Bull

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Arbuthnot's satirical figure, created in 1712 as an anthropomorphised bull, and its role as a representation of an English or British everyman.

    30 June 2022

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    Also featuring: Miles Taylor, Mark Knights

     
  3. Coffee

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of coffee, from its origins in Ethiopia to its role in the spread of ideas, its part in the slave trade and its social impact.

    12 December 2019

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    Also featuring: Markman Ellis, Jonathan Morris

     
  4. The Gin Craze

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the economic and social factors that led to the craze for gin in the 18th century and the moves to control it

    15 December 2016

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    Also featuring: Angela McShane, Emma Major

     
  5. Fanny Burney

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, also known as Frances D'Arblay and Frances Burney, best known for her novel Evelina.

    23 April 2015

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    Also featuring: Nicole Pohl, John Mullan

     
  6. Tristram Shandy

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's comic novel Tristram Shandy.

    24 April 2014

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    Also featuring: John Mullan, Mary Newbould

     
  7. Lyrical Ballads

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

    8 March 2012

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    Also featuring: Jonathan Bate, Peter Swaab

     
  8. Robinson Crusoe

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe. Published in 1719, it was an immediate success and is considered the classic adventure story.

    22 December 2011

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    Also featuring: Karen O'Brien, Bob Owens

     
  9. Women and Enlightenment Science

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.

    4 November 2010

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    Also featuring: Patricia Fara, Karen O'Brien

     
  10. Swift's A Modest Proposal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal, which reveals much about attitudes to the Irish and the poor in 18th-Century Britain.

    29 January 2009

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    Also featuring: John Mullan, Ian McBride

     
  11. The Encyclopédie

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the French encyclopédie, one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment with contributors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, D’Alembert and Dennis Diderot.

    26 October 2006

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    Also featuring: Caroline Warman, David Wootton

     
  12. Johnson

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Samuel Johnson, a giant of 18th century literature, language and letters, and perhaps the most quotable Englishman to have ever lifted a pen.

    27 October 2005

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    Also featuring: John Mullan, Jim McLaverty

     
  13. The Scriblerus Club

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Scriblerus Club which included some of the sharpest satirists of the 18th century.

    9 June 2005

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    Also featuring: John Mullan, Marcus Walsh

     
  14. Empiricism

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the development of the idea formulated by John Locke that all knowledge arises from experience, and looks at its effect on the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

    10 June 2004

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    Also featuring: Murray Pittock, Jonathan Rée