Tom Wright
Reader in Rhetoric and Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Sussex.
2 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Bridget Bennett, Erin Forbes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureHall of Fame for Great Americans inducteesAmerican male non-fiction writersEpic poetsAmerican people of English descent19th-century pseudonymous writersRomantic poets19th-century American poetsWriters of Gothic fictionAmerican novels adapted into films, American novels adapted into plays, American novels adapted into television showsAmerican male essayists, American male poets19th-century American male writersSurrealist writers19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)19th-century American essayistsUnited States Military Academy alumniAmerican literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrightsRecreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from Philadelphia19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writers19th-century American non-fiction writersWriters from BaltimoreAmerican male novelists
Little Women
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louisa May Alcott's much-read and much-adapted story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March which is credited with starting the genre of young adult fiction
24 October 2024
Also featuring: Bridget Bennett, Erin Forbes
Edgar Allan Poe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the writer of The Raven and Gothic horror stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher.
30 November 2023
Also featuring: Bridget Bennett, Erin Forbes
CultureHall of Fame for Great Americans inducteesUnited States Military Academy alumniAmerican literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrightsAmerican male essayists, American male poetsSurrealist writersRecreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from PhiladelphiaAmerican male non-fiction writersEpic poetsAmerican people of English descent19th-century pseudonymous writersRomantic poets19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writers19th-century American poets19th-century American non-fiction writers19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)Writers from Baltimore19th-century American male writers19th-century American essayistsAmerican male novelistsWriters of Gothic fiction19th centuryAmerica