T. C. W. Blanning
Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge University
3 episodes
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Sturm und Drang
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang, whose best-known exponents included Goethe and Schiller.
14 October 2010
Also featuring: Susanne Kord, Maike Oergel
The Baroque Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque, from Bach and Caavaggio to the Colonnades of St Peter’s.
20 November 2008
Also featuring: Nigel Aston, Helen Hills
The Riddle of the Sands
Melvyn Bragg discusses the prescient thriller ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ and the decline Anglo-German relations before the First World War.
12 June 2008
Also featuring: Richard J. Evans, Rosemary Ashton