Sarah Churchwell
Professor of American Literature and the Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureNovels adapted into operasNovels adapted into comicsPantheistsNovels adapted into balletsHall of Fame for Great Americans inducteesNovels adapted into radio programs19th-century pseudonymous writersAmerican people of English descent19th-century American poetsModernist novels19th-century American male writersAmerican male essayists, American male poetsNovels about adulteryAmerican humanists19th-century American essayistsAmerican male journalists19th-century mysticsWar writersNovelists from New York (state), 19th-century American novelistsMetafictional novelsAmerican novels adapted into films, American novels adapted into plays, American novels adapted into television showsAmerican male novelistsAmerican spiritual writersAmerican people of Dutch descentAmerican LGBTQ poetsAmerican religious skeptics, American nationalistsMurder–suicide in fiction
Walt Whitman
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative 19th-century poet, who broke away from European literary traditions to become a key figure in the development of American culture.
27 April 2023
Also featuring: Peter Riley, Mark Ford
CulturePantheistsHall of Fame for Great Americans inductees19th-century pseudonymous writersAmerican people of English descent19th-century American poets19th-century American male writersAmerican humanists19th-century American essayistsAmerican male journalists19th-century mysticsWar writersAmerican male novelistsAmerican spiritual writersAmerican people of Dutch descentAmerican LGBTQ poetsAmerican male essayists, American male poetsNovelists from New York (state), 19th-century American novelistsAmerican religious skeptics, American nationalistsThe Great Gatsby
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great American novels of the 20th Century, where inexplicably rich Jay Gatsby aims to win Daisy Buchanan from her millionaire husband.
14 January 2021
Also featuring: Philip McGowan, William Blazek
CultureNovels adapted into operasNovels adapted into comicsNovels adapted into balletsNovels adapted into radio programsModernist novelsNovels about adulteryMetafictional novelsMurder–suicide in fictionAmerican novels adapted into films, American novels adapted into plays, American novels adapted into television shows