成人快手 Radio 4 - In Our Time, Culture

Culture Podcast

Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.

Updated: occasionally

Episodes available: indefinitely

The Grand Tour

Thu 30 May 2002

The origins and cultural impact of 18th century tourism.
Tolstoy

Thu 25 Apr 2002

Melvyn Bragg explores the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
The Artist

Thu 28 Mar 2002

Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.
Marriage

Thu 21 Mar 2002

The history of marriage from ancient Greek and Babylonian times to today.
Milton

Thu 7 Mar 2002

Melvyn Bragg examines both the literary and political careers of the poet John Milton.
Yeats and Mysticism

Thu 31 Jan 2002

Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats.
Sensibility

Thu 3 Jan 2002

Melvyn Bragg examines the ideas behind the 18th century literary cult of sensibility.
Food

Thu 27 Dec 2001

The cultural history of food in Modern Europe since the Renaissance.
Oscar Wilde

Thu 6 Dec 2001

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Oscar Wilde, his literary legacy and the Aesthetes.
Surrealism

Thu 15 Nov 2001

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss surrealism, the art of the unconscious.
Dickens

Thu 12 Jul 2001

The achievements and legacy of the 19th century literary giant Charles Dickens.
Existentialism

Thu 28 Jun 2001

Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the 20th century philosophy of existentialism
The Sonnet

Thu 21 Jun 2001

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Sonnet, the most enduring form in the poet鈥檚 armoury.
Literary Modernism

Thu 26 Apr 2001

Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Shakespeare's Life

Thu 15 Mar 2001

Melvyn Bragg and guests consider the enigma of the life of William Shakespeare
Gothic

Thu 4 Jan 2001

Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
Psychoanalysis and Literature

Thu 9 Nov 2000

Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
The Romantics

Thu 12 Oct 2000

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.
London

Thu 28 Sep 2000

The history of London from its Neolithic origin to the digitalised capital city of today.
Biography

Thu 22 Jun 2000

Melvyn Bragg examines why the public is fascinated with the private lives of individuals.
Inspiration and Genius

Thu 15 Jun 2000

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the true meaning of genius and whether it is born or made.
The Renaissance

Thu 8 Jun 2000

Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance.
The American Ideal

Thu 1 Jun 2000

Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.
Shakespeare's Work

Thu 11 May 2000

Melvyn Bragg examines what it is about Shakespeare鈥檚 work that makes it universal.
Death

Thu 4 May 2000

Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death.
Englishness

Thu 20 Apr 2000

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity.
Materialism and the Consumer

Thu 23 Mar 2000

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture.
Metamorphosis

Thu 2 Mar 2000

Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid鈥檚 work Metamorphoses.
Reading

Thu 17 Feb 2000

The history of the politics, practice and process of reading.
Masculinity in Literature

Thu 20 Jan 2000

Melvyn Bragg investigates the changing ideals of masculinity in 20th century literature.