Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Steven Connor

Professor of English at the University of Cambridge

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5 episodes

Covers topics in categories such as:

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  1. Samuel Beckett

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the author of Waiting for Godot, who lived in Paris and wrote in French as he found that more difficult than writing in English

    17 January 2019

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    Also featuring: Laura Salisbury, Mark Nixon

     
  2. Animal Farm

    4 Extra Debut. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's Animal Farm, which he struggled to publish in WW2 as the USSR was an ally. From 2016.

    29 September 2016

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    Also featuring: Mary Vincent, Robert Colls

     
  3. James Joyce's Ulysses

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's celebrated novel Ulysses.

    14 June 2012

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    Also featuring: Jeri Johnson, Richard Brown

     
  4. Modernist Utopias

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the mad, bad world of modern utopias where babies are hatched from test tubes, where women live without men, where machines have taken over, and where the poor are exterminated.

    10 March 2005

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    Also featuring: John Carey, Laura Marcus