Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Julie Sanders

Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham

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5 episodes

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  1. The Anatomy of Melancholy

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a masterpiece of 17th-century medicine and literature: Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

    12 May 2011

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    Also featuring: Mary Ann Lund, Erin Sullivan

     
  2. History of Metaphor

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of metaphor - the device of using one thing to describe another.

    25 November 2010

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    Also featuring: Steven Connor, Tom Healy

     
  3. Elizabethan Revenge

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why revenge tragedy was so popular with Elizabethan theatre goers, from Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

    18 June 2009

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    Also featuring: Jonathan Bate, Janet Clare

     
  4. The Metaphysical Poets

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the Metaphysical poets John Donne, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert, examining their rich and strange metaphors of sex, death and love.

    3 July 2008

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    Also featuring: Thomas Healy, Tom Cain

     
  5. Pastoral Literature

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss pastoral literature which looks at tensions between nature and art, the real and the ideal, the actual and the mythical.

    6 July 2006

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    Also featuring: Helen Cooper, Laurence Lerner