Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, published in 1759.
Melvyn Bragg examines the effect of Irish politics on the work of the poet W.B. Yeats.
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine Shakespeare鈥檚 bloodthirsty tragedy, King Lear.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Central Asian scientist and historian al-Biruni.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the foundation of the medieval universities.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's book The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam.
