Juliette Wood
Associate Lecturer in the School of Welsh at the University of Wales.
12 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Carolyne Larrington, Stephen Knight
Covers topics in categories such as:
Dragons
Dragons have breathed fire into folklore, literature and popular culture from the ancient world to the Christian Bible, the tales of Tolkien to The Game of Thrones.
26 June 2025
Also featuring: Kelsey Granger, Daniel Ogden
The Mabinogion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Welsh stories of Arthurian romance and Celtic mythology created in the oral tradition for centuries before being written down in the Middle Ages.
10 May 2018
Also featuring: Sioned Davies, Helen Fulton
Tristan and Iseult
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tristan and Iseult, as told by Thomas of Britain and Beroul in the 12th century and reworked by Gottfried of Strasbourg and others, including Wagner.
31 December 2015
Also featuring: Laura Ashe, Mark Chinca
The Unicorn
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and mythology of the unicorn.
28 October 2010
Also featuring: Lauren Kassell, David Ekserdjian
Boudica
Melvyn Bragg and guests Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Juliette Wood and Richard Hingley discuss the life and mythologisation of Boudica.
11 March 2010
Also featuring: Richard Hingley, Miranda Aldhouse-Green
The Brothers Grimm
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and what they can tell us about the German imagination and 19th-century romantic nationalism.
5 February 2009
Also featuring: Marina Warner, Tony Phelan
The Fisher King
Melvyn Bragg and guests will be delving into the world of medieval myth and legend in pursuit of the powerful and enigmatic Fisher King.
17 January 2008
Also featuring: Carolyne Larrington, Stephen Knight
Fairies
Melvyn Bragg discusses the literary and visual depiction of fairies. Supernatural creatures inhabiting a half-way world between this one and the next, fairies are ubiquitous in human culture.
11 May 2006
Also featuring: Diane Purkiss, Nicola Bown
Merlin
Melvyn Bragg discusses Merlin, prophet, magician, king maker and the original mad man of the woods, distraught at the death of his lord in battle.
30 June 2005
Also featuring: Stephen Knight, Peter Forshaw
Robin Hood
Melvyn Bragg discusses the centuries old myth of the most romantic noble outlaw. Was he a yeoman, an aristocrat, an anarchist or the figment of a collective imagination?
30 October 2003
Also featuring: Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn
The Holy Grail
Melvyn Bragg discusses the sacred allure of the Holy Grail which has fascinated writers for a thousand years.
15 May 2003
Also featuring: Carolyne Larrington, Jonathan Riley-Smith