Cover image of In Our Time: Culture

In Our Time: Culture

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

Ranked #1

Podcast cover

Auden

Auden

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and poetry of WH Auden (1907-1973) up to his departure from Europe for the USA ... Read more

19 Dec 2019

53mins

Ranked #2

Podcast cover

Macbeth

Macbeth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When three witches prophesy that Macbeth will b... Read more

1 Oct 2020

51mins

Similar Podcasts

Ranked #3

Podcast cover

Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence of the eighteenth-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A pr... Read more

22 Mar 2012

42mins

Ranked #4

Podcast cover

Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Christine de Pizan, who wrote at the French Court in the late Midd... Read more

8 Jun 2017

50mins

Most Popular Podcasts

Ranked #5

Podcast cover

Horace

Horace

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Horace (65-8BC), who flourished under the Emperor Augustus. He was one of the greatest p... Read more

15 Nov 2018

48mins

Ranked #6

Podcast cover

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's most popular works, written c1595 in the last years of Elizabeth I.... Read more

18 Apr 2019

54mins

Ranked #7

Podcast cover

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Herman Melville's (1819-1891) epic novel, published in London in 1851, the story of Capt... Read more

7 Dec 2017

51mins

Ranked #8

Podcast cover

Lorca

Lorca

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), author of Blood Weddi... Read more

4 Jul 2019

53mins

Ranked #9

Podcast cover

Proust

Proust

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work Marcel Proust whose novel À La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or In Search... Read more

10 Apr 2003

41mins

Ranked #10

Podcast cover

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling has been descr... Read more

16 Oct 2014

45mins

Ranked #11

Podcast cover

Middlemarch

Middlemarch

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what Virginia Woolf called 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'. ... Read more

19 Apr 2018

51mins

Ranked #12

Podcast cover

Aesop

Aesop

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aesop. According to some accounts, Aesop was a strikingly ugly slave who was dumb until ... Read more

20 Nov 2014

45mins

Ranked #13

Podcast cover

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Odyssey by Homer, often claimed as the great founding work of Western Literature. It... Read more

9 Sep 2004

28mins

Ranked #14

Podcast cover

Shakespeare and Literary Criticism

Shakespeare and Literary Criticism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare. Did he invent the human persona... Read more

4 Mar 1999

27mins

Ranked #15

Podcast cover

Tolstoy

Tolstoy

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.The Russian novel has... Read more

25 Apr 2002

28mins

Ranked #16

Podcast cover

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century novel, Don Quixote. Published four hundred years ago i... Read more

16 Mar 2006

42mins

Ranked #17

Podcast cover

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Melvyn Bragg and guests David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and Michele Barrett discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel, Br... Read more

9 Apr 2009

42mins

Ranked #18

Podcast cover

In Our Time - Animal Farm

In Our Time - Animal Farm

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Animal Farm, which Eric Blair published under his pen name George Orwell in 1945. A biti... Read more

29 Sep 2016

51mins

Ranked #19

Podcast cover

Language and the Mind

Language and the Mind

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of our ideas about the formation of language. The psychologist George Miller... Read more

11 Feb 1999

27mins

Ranked #20

Podcast cover

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Argentinian master of the short story, Jorge Luis Borges. Borge... Read more

4 Jan 2007

42mins

“Podium: AI tools for podcasters. Generate show notes, transcripts, highlight clips, and more with AI. Try it today at https://podium.page”