Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most popular idea sent in by listeners.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and works of the great woman of letters.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events behind and impact of Picasso's iconic work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689): playwright, poet, spy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pushkin's masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Christine de Pizan (c1364-1430).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, known as his great last work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gilgamesh, the great epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273).
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of Tristan and Iseult.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.
