Karen Edwards
Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter
2 episodes
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Nature
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of man’s attempt to define nature, including the Ancient Greek’s quest to demonstrate the wrath of the gods and the Romantics who set out to philosophise it.
10 July 2003
Also featuring: Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton
The Epic
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the epic form, from it's creation by Homer to its more modern incarnations in the hands of James Joyce, J R R Tolkien and Philip Pullman.
6 February 2003
Also featuring: John Carey, Oliver Taplin