Karen Salt
Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies at the University of Nottingham
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Anglican saints19th-century male writers19th-century American male writers19th-century rebellionsActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican male journalistsAmerican lecturersAmerican autobiographersDeaths from coronary thrombosis18th-century rebellions19th-century American memoirists, People of the Six Years' War19th-century American businesspeopleUnderground Railroad peopleWriters from BaltimoreHistory18th-century revolutions, French Revolution
Frederick Douglass
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the prominent abolitionist, who in 1845 told his story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
8 February 2018
Also featuring: Celeste-Marie Bernier, Nicholas Guyatt
History19th-century American male writers19th-century American memoirists, People of the Six Years' WarAnglican saintsActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican male journalists19th-century American businesspeopleUnderground Railroad peopleAmerican lecturersWriters from Baltimore19th-century male writersAmerican autobiographersDeaths from coronary thrombosis19th centuryThe Haitian Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.
23 October 2014
Also featuring: Kate Hodgson, Tim Lockley