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In Our TimeMelvyn Bragg meets Misha GlennyBefore Misha Glenny's first edition on 15th January, BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme Today has brought Melvyn Bragg and Misha Glenny together so they can share their ideas about In Our Time's success and discuss what, if anything, will change with Misha. While Justin Webb chaired this discussion, here you will hear Melvyn introduce it and at the end he has a message for Misha and for listeners around the world.This is a longer version of the discussion broadcast on Today on Radio 4 on Christmas Eve 2025 which was produced by Jade Bogart-Preleur, when Melvyn Bragg...
2026-01-2216 min
In Our Time With Melvyn BraggMelvyn Bragg meets Misha GlennyBefore Misha Glenny's first edition on 15th January, BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme Today has brought Melvyn Bragg and Misha Glenny together so they can share their ideas about In Our Time's success and discuss what, if anything, will change with Misha. While Justin Webb chaired this discussion, here you will hear Melvyn introduce it and at the end he has a message for Misha and for listeners around the world.
This is a longer version of the discussion broadcast on Today on Radio 4 on Christmas Eve 2025 which was produced by Jade Bogart-Preleur, when Melvyn Bragg was...
2026-01-2217 minIn Our Time With Melvyn BraggFeathered Dinosaurs (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this sixth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests in 2017 discussing new discoveries about dinosaurs. Their topic is the development of theories about dinosaur feathers, following discoveries of fossils which show evidence of those feathers. All dinosaurs were originally thought to be related to lizards (the word 'dinosaur' was created fr...
2025-12-1153 minIn Our TimeFeathered Dinosaurs (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this sixth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests in 2017 discussing new discoveries about dinosaurs. Their topic is the development of theories about dinosaur feathers, following discoveries of fossils which show evidence of those feathers. All dinosaurs were originally thought to be related to lizards (the word 'dinosaur' was cr...
2025-12-1148 minIn Our TimePauli's Exclusion Principle (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this fifth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a key figure from quantum mechanics. Their topic is the life and ideas of Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), whose Exclusion Principle is one of the key ideas in quantum mechanics. A brilliant physicist, at 21 Pauli wrote a review of Einstein's th...
2025-12-0449 minIn Our Time With Melvyn BraggPauli's Exclusion Principle (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this fifth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a key figure from quantum mechanics. Their topic is the life and ideas of Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), whose Exclusion Principle is one of the key ideas in quantum mechanics. A brilliant physicist, at 21 Pauli wrote a review of Einstein's theory of...
2025-12-0449 minIn Our TimeZeno's Paradoxes (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this third of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Greek philosophy. Their topic is Zeno of Elea, a pre-Socratic philosopher from c490-430 BC whose paradoxes were described by Bertrand Russell as "immeasurably subtle and profound." The best known argue against motion, such as that of an arrow in...
2025-11-2047 minIn Our Time With Melvyn BraggZeno's Paradoxes (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this third of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Greek philosophy. Their topic is Zeno of Elea, a pre-Socratic philosopher from c490-430 BC whose paradoxes were described by Bertrand Russell as "immeasurably subtle and profound." The best known argue against motion, such as that of an arrow in fl...
2025-11-2049 minIn Our TimeThomas Hardy's Poetry (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this second of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of his favourite poets.Their topic is Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928) and his commitment to poetry, which he prized far above his novels. In the 1890s, once he had earned enough from his fiction, Hardy stopped writing no...
2025-11-1350 minIn Our Time With Melvyn BraggThomas Hardy's Poetry (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this second of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of his favourite poets.
Their topic is Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928) and his commitment to poetry, which he prized far above his novels. In the 1890s, once he had earned enough from his fiction, Hardy stopped writing novels al...
2025-11-1352 minIn Our TimeThe Moon (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this first pick, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon. Humans have been fascinated by our only known satellite since prehistory. In some cultures the Moon has been worshipped as a deity; in recent centuries there has been lively debate about it...
2025-11-0643 minIn Our Time With Melvyn BraggThe Moon (Archive Episode)After 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this first pick, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon.
Humans have been fascinated by our only known satellite since prehistory. In some cultures the Moon has been worshipped as a deity; in recent centuries there has been lively debate about its or...
2025-11-0643 min
History of North America439. What is Mercantilism?Between the 16th and 18th centuries, European nations were dominated by an economic way of thinking called mercantilism, which implicated their North American colonies. The key idea was that exports from the mother country should be as high as possible and imports minimized. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/yPU4Ts-9SFk which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. In Our Time History podcast at https://amzn.to/3HdSjF5 In Our Time book by M.Bragg https://amzn.to/44VlbuP Melvyn Bragg books available at http...
2025-09-1211 min
Podnews Daily - podcast industry newsIn Our Time’s Melvyn Bragg to step downSponsored by SoundStack Marketplace. More revenue secures the future of podcasting and streaming. Make it simple for your creators in SoundStack Marketplace and keep great content flourishing.
Melvyn Bragg has announced he is to step down from presenting the In Our Time podcast. The 85 year-old first joined the BBC in 1961; the podcast and radio programme has aired since October 1998, and is one of the most popular podcasts from the BBC.
In Our Time was the first podcast from the BBC, put into an RSS feed in Nov 2004 by Matt Webb of BBC Radio & Music Interactive.
One of...
2025-09-0402 min
Rosebud with Gyles BrandrethMelvyn BraggWe have a broadcasting legend for you today on Rosebud, as Gyles interviews the creator and host of In Our Time and The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg, Lord Bragg of Wigton. Melvyn takes Gyles back to his roots in Wigton, a small town in Cumbria, in which his parents ran one of the local pubs, and the young Bragg played all day long in the streets, making bows and arrows from trees overhanging the river. He tells Gyles about his schooldays, the brilliant teachers who guided him and there's a really interesting discussion of the unexpected mental health problems...
2025-08-2258 min
History of North America430. Sepulveda vs Las CasasJuan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1490-1573) was a Spanish humanist, philosopher, and theologian of the Spanish Renaissance. He is mainly known for his participation in a famous debate with Bartolomé de las Casas in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550–1551. The debate centered on the legitimacy of the conquest and colonization of America by the Spanish Empire and on the treatment of the Native Americans. The main philosophical referents of Sepulveda were Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Roman law and Christian theology. These influences allowed him to argue for the cultural superiority and domination of the Spanish over the Native Americans during the p...
2025-08-1311 min
History of North America429. Bartolome de Las CasasDominican friar and Catholic priest Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566), the Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, tried to end Mexico’s Encomienda system in which those who owned land could also take the people living there in forced labor. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/0kcG_UoXWNY which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. In Our Time History podcast at https://amzn.to/3HdSjF5 In Our Time book by M.Bragg https://amzn.to/44VlbuP Melvyn Bragg books available at https://amzn.to/458Iosk Bartolomé de las...
2025-08-0810 min
History of North America428. Valladolid DebatesThe rights to enslave the native peoples in the newly conquered lands of Mexico were debated in 1550 in the northwest Spanish city of Valladolid. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/wAUv25DwUpU which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. In Our Time History podcast at https://amzn.to/3HdSjF5 In Our Time book by M.Bragg https://amzn.to/44VlbuP Melvyn Bragg books available at https://amzn.to/458Iosk Encomienda books at https://amzn.to/3Hhp4B8 Caroline Dodds Pennock book at https://amzn.to/3U...
2025-08-0611 min
History of North America427. Encomienda System in MexicoIn 1550, a debate transpired in Valladolid, Spain over the rights to enslave the native peoples in the newly conquered lands, including Mexico. The Encomienda system in New Spain was a Spanish labor system that granted Spanish conquistadors control over indigenous populations in exchange for protection and religious instruction, but in practice often led to forced labor and exploitation. Essentially, it was a way for the Spanish crown to reward its subjects for their service in colonizing the Americas, while simultaneously attempting to manage and control the indigenous population. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at...
2025-08-0110 min
Sapphire FM On DemandWavelength Music Documentary: Bits & Pieces of England, Pt 1The Romans; The Adventure Of English; Boris Johnson; 1984; Woke Therapy Group; Drake Poem; London Criminals; The Great Train Robbery; Coronation StAdult content in this series is marked with an asterisk *Introduction Listen With Mother Introduction (Eileen Browne) (02.45) Ian Dury/England's Glory (06.06) Lewis Hamilton Wins Portuguese GP, 2020 (06.34) Paul Cosgrave/Pliny The Elder's Description of Albion (07.09) Melvyn Bragg/Introduction to The Adventure Of English (08.25) Paul Cosgrave/John Ruskin Quotation (08.34) The Kinks/Waterloo Sunset (11.37) Peter Baker/Prologue from Beowulf (excerpt) (11.50) Yes Minister - Diplomacy (13.26) Boris Johnson Loses Speech Notes (13.55) Parliamentary Criticism & Brexit (15.23) Fascinating Aida (*expletives)/We're So Sorry, Scotland...
2025-04-121h 00
Sapphire FM On DemandWavelength Music Documentary: Bits & Pieces of England, Pt 6 (The Leftovers)Dr Who; Tony Hancock; Football; Grumpy Old Men; The Leveson Inquiry; Dunkirk; How To Be A Chap; Brady, Hindley, Fred & Rosemary West; Jimmy Savile; The BBCIntroduction (2.29) Denis Rice/The Evenlode (lyrics Hilaire Belloc; piano, arrangement & vocal Denis Rice) (04.09) BBC Radiophonic Workshop; Dr Who Theme; Delia Derbyshire on electronic sound (05.17) Dr Who, The Execution of Leela (Louise Jameson, season 15, The Invasion Of Time) (07.03) *Catherine Tate as ‘Nan’, The Ugly Baby (09.37) The Clash/This Is England (13.06) Tony Hancock, Face To Face, 1960 (17.09) William Blake - narrators Iain Sinclair, Melvyn Bragg, Peter Ackroyd (19.58) Shirley Collins/The Unquiet Grave (23.15) Bill & Ben, Flowerpot M...
2025-04-111h 41
Historical Jesus175. Was Jesus a Hero?Who can be a Hero? How do we define a Hero? and is the Historical Jesus of Nazareth one? In Our Time podcast at https://amzn.to/4bhqbM3 Books by Melvyn Bragg available at https://amzn.to/439ECPY Plato and the Hero by Angela Hobbs at https://amzn.to/43cSHMG The God Argument by A.C. Grayling at https://amzn.to/41elfCP Books by Paul Cartledge available at https://amzn.to/4ibiDws Historical Jesus books available at https://amzn.to/43rnYbq ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon...
2025-02-2510 min
Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Maud & more: A BBC Radio Collection by Alfred TennysonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733664to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Maud & more: A BBC Radio Collection
Author: Alfred Tennyson
Narrator: Charles Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Mary Wimbush, Holliday Grainger, Ruth Padel, Rachel Bavidge, Full Cast, Peggy Ashcroft, Jonathan Keeble, Tim Pigott-Smith, Melvyn Bragg, Andrew Sachs, John Sir Gielgud
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Release date: March 14, 2024
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A definitive collection of Tennyson’s finest works Alfred Lord Tennyson is one of Britain’s greatest and most popular poets. Even during his lifetime, he was considered a national inst...
2024-03-1410h 51
Late Fragments PodcastLate Fragments with Melvyn BraggIn this final episode of the Series, interviewer Chloe Fox meets her interviewing hero, Melvyn Bragg and talks to the 84 year old about his Cumbrian upbringing, the solace of intellectual curiosity and what it's really like living in the 'Waiting Room'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-0840 min
CountrystrideCountrystride #112: Melvyn Bragg - Back in the Day
...in which we return to post-war Cumbria in the company of author, broadcaster and parliamentarian, Melvyn Bragg, to reflect on his early years in the market town of Wigton. Evoking a close-knit community on the threshold of change, Melvyn describes daily life in the Black-a-Moor inn – the Bragg family home for a decade – and celebrates the rich diversity of small-town working class culture: of hound dog trailing; dances; and Youth Hostel trips to the Lakes. Following a breakdown aged 13, Melvyn explains the role education and reading played in his recovery, and the fork in the road that tore him from the...
2023-11-1054 minIn Our TimeThe Seventh SealIn the 1000th edition of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the most celebrated film of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). It begins with an image that, once seen, stays with you for the rest of your life: the figure of Death playing chess with a Crusader on the rocky Swedish shore. The release of this film in 1957 brought Bergman fame around the world. We see Antonius Block, the Crusader, realising he can’t beat Death but wanting to prolong this final game for one last act, without yet knowing what that act might be. As...
2023-10-1948 min
In Our Time: CultureThe Seventh SealIn the 1000th edition of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the most celebrated film of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). It begins with an image that, once seen, stays with you for the rest of your life: the figure of Death playing chess with a Crusader on the rocky Swedish shore. The release of this film in 1957 brought Bergman fame around the world. We see Antonius Block, the Crusader, realising he can’t beat Death but wanting to prolong this final game for one last act, without yet knowing what that act might be. As...
2023-10-1948 minIn Our TimeMelvyn Bragg talks to Mishal HusainTo mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain for Radio 4's Today programme.
2023-10-1911 min
Enjoy Offering of Full Audiobooks in Funny, Performing ArtsIn Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts - Melvyn BraggListen to full audiobooks for free :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTITLE In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual ArtsSUBTITLE A BBC Radio 4 CollectionSERIES #1 in In Our TimeAUTHOR Melvyn BraggNARRATOR Various, Melvyn BraggLANGUAGE EnglishRELEASE DATE 10-12-2023PUBLISHER BBC AudioCATEGORIES Architecture, ArtSUMMARYMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artists.
Radio 4's In Our Time has established itself at the pinnacle of essential conversation on...
2023-10-1200 min
Explore Your Day With A Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook.In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/219729to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English
Series: In Our Time
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various
Format: mp3
Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 10-12-23
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Animals & Nature
Publisher's Summary:
Since its debut in 1998, In Our Time has amassed a dedicated following of more than 2 million listeners. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg, with a panel of guest experts, each show features a plethora of fascinating facts and inspirational discourse on topics ranging from democracy to dark matter. This specially curated collection...
2023-10-125h 19
Absorb A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Critically-Acclaimed.In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/57611to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics
Series: In Our Time
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various
Format: mp3
Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
Release date: 10-12-23
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Mathematics
Publisher's Summary:
Beginning with three introductory episodes, this specially curated collection explores 25 of the most important individuals, ideas and discoveries that have transformed our understanding of mathematics over the past 5,000 years. We learn how Indian mathematics provided the foundations for much of our modern thinking, discover why Euclid's Elements is the...
2023-10-126h 30
Step Inside An Mind-Blowing Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/803to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
Series: In Our Time
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various
Format: mp3
Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 10-12-23
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Art
Publisher's Summary:
Radio 4's In Our Time has established itself at the pinnacle of essential conversation on a wide range of subjects from science, history, philosophy and the arts. The programme, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2023, is presented by Melvyn Bragg with contributors from the diverse worlds of academia. Opening with four contextual...
2023-10-127h 10
Embark On The Game-Changing Full Audiobook Experience!In Our Time: 25 Explorations of Space by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/235455to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In Our Time: 25 Explorations of Space
Series: In Our Time
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various
Format: mp3
Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 10-12-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Astronomy
Publisher's Summary:
In this special thematic anthology, we traverse the solar system, the galaxies and the multiverse, voyaging across space to explore 25 celestial objects and phenomena. Included are programmes on the universe, the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets - among them our near neighbours, Venus and Mars. Also featured are discussions on...
2023-10-125h 03
Explore New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentIn Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts: A BBC Radio 4 Collection by Melvyn BraggPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/674867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts: A BBC Radio 4 Collection Series: Part of In Our Time Author: Melvyn Bragg Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 12, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artists Radio 4's In Our Time has established itself at the pinnacle of essential conversation on a wide range of subjects from science, history, philosophy and the arts. T...
2023-10-1205 min
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six Full-Cast Dramatisations including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and more by Johann Wolfgang Von GoethesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692422to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six Full-Cast Dramatisations including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and more
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethes
Narrator: Eileen Aitkin, Gabriel Woolf, Jack Farthing, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Joel Maccormack, Ronald Pickup, Full Cast, David Suchet, Melvyn Bragg, Frances Jeater, Simon Callow, Anton Lesser
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 5 minutes
Release date: October 5, 2023
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A collection of seminal dramatised pieces by the great German polymath Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist...
2023-10-055h 05Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalGoethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six Full-Cast Dramatisations including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and more by Johann Wolfgang Von GoethesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692422to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six Full-Cast Dramatisations including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and more
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethes
Narrator: Eileen Aitkin, Gabriel Woolf, Jack Farthing, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Joel Maccormack, Ronald Pickup, Full Cast, David Suchet, Melvyn Bragg, Frances Jeater, Simon Callow, Anton Lesser
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 5 minutes
Release date: October 5, 2023
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A collection of seminal dramatised pieces by the great German polymath Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist...
2023-10-055h 05
This Cultural LifeMelvyn BraggWriter and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg is a prolific and bestselling author, having written 22 novels, many set in the Cumbrian communities in which he grew up. He has also written 18 works of historical non-fiction and biographies. As host and editor of ITV’s South Bank Show for nearly 35 years, presenter dozens of documentaries, and Radio 4 series including Start The Week and In Our Time he is synonymous with arts broadcasting in the UK. He was ennobled in 1998, taking his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Bragg of Wigton in Cumbria.
In conversation with John Wilson, Melvyn Bragg recalls his wo...
2023-08-2643 min
The Literary London podcast.Potter, Bragg, Southwark and suicide.This week on Literary London, Nick Hennegan's celebrity poem has a moving insight into Lord Melvyn Bragg's past. He also introduces his Literary Pub of The Week - The George in Southwark, London. www.BohemianBritain.com
2023-04-3029 min
Nick Hennegan's Bohemian BritainPotter, Bragg, Southwark and suicide.This week on Literary London, Nick Hennegan’s celebrity poem has a moving insight into Lord Melvyn Bragg’s past. He also introduces his Literary Pub of The Week - The George in Southwark, London.
www.BohemianBritain.com
2023-04-3029 min
Escape To This Must-Listen Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/130432to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
Series: In Our Time
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various
Format: mp3
Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 03-16-23
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Turkey
Publisher's Summary:
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers. Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. This special themed collection provides a focussed, wide-ranging introduction to 25 of the ideas and...
2023-03-163h 36
Algo Poetry-Behind the LinesMelvyn Bragg,James Bond and JMW Turner walk into a painting….This episode is also available as a blog post: http://algopoetry.blog/2022/11/29/melvyn-braggjames-bond-and-jmw-turner-walk-into-a-painting
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2023-01-1902 min
Roger Bolton's Beeb WatchMelvyn Bragg talks about arts programming and the future of the BBC.The BBC has been celebrating its 100th anniversary – if you hadn’t noticed - and on ‘Beeb Watch’ this week Roger Bolton talks to one of it's greatest broadcasters – Melvyn Bragg. They discuss arts programming, BBC World Service cuts and the future of the BBC.“I think we should start panicking now. There is an encroaching mass, not dependent or related to each other, but it’s out there in force who would benefit if there were no BBC.” “I’ve talked directly to all of the people at the top of the BBC saying why don’t yo...
2022-10-2129 min
Beyond The TitleMelvyn Bragg - In ConversationIn conversation with one of the most eminent broadcasters of our time as the legendary Melvyn Bragg explains how he brought cultural affairs to the masses.
2022-07-1832 min
John's private podcast feed ~ betaworks events & things I'm listening to.. enjoy 👂Extract from the Melvyn Bragg interview with playwright Dennis PotterA short extract from the Melvyn Bragg interview with playwright Dennis Potter a few months before he died. recorded on 15th March 1994.
"it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it.
2022-04-1650 minIn Our Time: CultureThomas Hardy's PoetryAfter 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this second of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of his favourite poets.Their topic is Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928) and his commitment to poetry, which he prized far above his novels. In the 1890s, once he had earned enough from his fiction, Hardy stopped writing no...
2022-01-1350 min
Hail to the ChiefEpisode Zero: Format and BackgroundIn this episode, our first, the hosts, Dirk and Max, introduce themselves. They discuss the categories under which they will be judging each monarch, and they discuss the very broad strokes of Spanish history in the period from the Fall of the Roman Empire right to, but not through, the establishment of the King of Asturias. Bibliography: -Ballan, Mohamed. "Fraxinetum: An Islamic Frontier State in Tenth Century Provence." -Bragg, Melvyn, Tim Winter, Martin Palmer, and Mehri Niknam. “Muslim Spain.” -Interview by Melvyn Bragg. In Our Time, BBC, accessed 11/3/21. Audio. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548l1.
2021-11-151h 04
The Chris Evans Show with The National LotteryTom Grennan, Rob Beckett, Candice Brown, John BishopThis week on the show we welcome friends from the world of television, film, music and literature.Brilliant musician Tom Grennan tells us about this year's 'Soccer Aid for UNICEF' taking place in September at Etihad Stadium.The always hilarious Rob Beckett picks up the phone to recall the events of Tuesday night and England's big win against Germany in the Euros.Bakeoff Superstar Candice Brown chats recipes from her brilliant new book 'Happy Cooking'.And the brilliantly funny John Bishop discusses returning to the stage with the 'Marlow Comedy Weekender'.
2021-07-0257 minIn Our Time: CultureShakespeare's SonnetsTo celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years presenting In Our Time, some well-known fans of the programme have chosen their favourite episodes. Historian and broadcaster Simon Schama has selected the episode on Shakespeare’s Sonnets and recorded an introduction to it. (This introduction will be available on BBC Sounds and the In Our Time webpage shortly after the broadcast and will be longer than the one broadcast on Radio 4). In 1609 Thomas Thorpe published a collection of poems entitled Shakespeare’s Sonnets, “never before imprinted”. Yet, while some of Shakespeare's other poems and many of his plays were often reprinted in his lifeti...
2021-06-2452 min
In Our Time: ScienceEclipsesTo celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years presenting In Our Time, five well-known fans of the programme have chosen their favourite episodes. Guy Garvey, lyricist and lead singer of the band Elbow, has selected the episode on eclipses, first broadcast in December 2020. Solar eclipses are some of life’s most extraordinary moments, when day becomes night and the stars come out before day returns either all too soon or not soon enough, depending on what you understand to be happening. In ancient China, for example, there was a story that a dragon was eating the sun and it had to be s...
2020-12-3150 min
Civics, Y'all!Civics, Y'all! Episode 5 - "The Post Office is in the Constitution?!?"We discover what the Post Office means to our country.
Show Notes
https://www.usps.com/ (USPS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause (the Post Office is in the Constitution)
https://ldh.la.gov/index.cfm/page/3957 (Louisiana contact tracing)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000653/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 (Brent Spiner)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554/ (Sam Neill)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_Bragg (Lord Melvyn Bragg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ4nKXB47IU (Sesame Street Post Office Episode )
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/14/upshot/is-the-mail-getting-slower-tracker.html...
2020-10-1346 min
Ex LibrisMelvyn Bragg in Wigton LibraryMelvyn Bragg is what people in Britain sometimes call a ‘national treasure’.
The man is prodigious.
Notably for this bookish show, he has written several award-winning novels and works of non-fiction. In this episode, Melvyn discusses with Ben his bold latest novel, Love Without End.
Melvyn began his broadcasting career at the BBC in 1961. He has edited and presented The South Bank Show for the last forty years and chairs In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. He goes into the origins of both these mainstay programmes in riveting detail during this discussion, explaining how t...
2019-12-031h 01
Pravidelná dávka103. Sokrates: nepreskúmaný život nie je hodný žitiaKto bol ten aténsky ovad, ktorého dialektické uhryznutie vedelo mať dlhodobé následky? Prečo bol mnohými pokladaný za svätca, inými za skutočne osvieteného mudrca, a pritom bol svojimi spoluobčanmi demokraticky odsúdený na smrť za korumpovanie mládeže a bezbožnosť?
----more----Dnes sa pozrieme na osobu aténskeho Sokrata, povieme si niečo o jeho živote a filozofickej metóde, a tiež sa pozrieme na to, prečo o ňom Cicero slávne povedal, že bol prvým, kto zniesol filozofiu z nebies do príbytkov bežných ľudí.
Použitá a od...
2019-11-2618 min
Christian Heritage London PodcastMelvyn Bragg and Ben Virgo discuss William Tyndale. The Unbelievable ShowRenowned British broadcaster Melvyn Bragg and Ben Virgo of Christian Heritage London joined Justin as guests on Unbelievable. Melvyn talked about why, as a non-believer, he holds the Bible in such high regard. His recent book 'William Tyndale: A Very Brief History’ traces the life and legacy of the reformer William Tyndale whose English translation of the Bible laid the foundation for the King James Version.
2019-04-1151 min
Unbelievable?Why William Tyndale’s Bible changed the world: Melvyn Bragg and Ben VirgoRenowned British broadcaster Melvyn Bragg joins Justin to talk about why, as a non-believer, he holds the Bible in such high regard. His recent book 'William Tyndale: A Very Brief History’ traces the life and legacy of the reformer William Tyndale whose English translation of the Bible laid the foundation for the King James Version.
Ben Virgo of Christian Heritage London joins the conversation to explore the ways in which Tyndale’s work changed the English language, challenged the church and renewed the gospel in England. At the end of the show Sarah Yardley and Andy Bannister give a previ...
2019-03-291h 28
Unbelievable?Why William Tyndale’s Bible changed the world: Melvyn Bragg and Ben VirgoRenowned British broadcaster Melvyn Bragg joins Justin to talk about why, as a non-believer, he holds the Bible in such high regard. His recent book 'William Tyndale: A Very Brief History’ traces the life and legacy of the reformer William Tyndale whose English translation of the Bible laid the foundation for the King James Version. Ben Virgo of Christian Heritage London joins the conversation to explore the ways in which Tyndale’s work changed the English language, challenged the church and renewed the gospel in England. At the end of the show Sarah Yardley and Andy Bannister give...
2019-03-291h 28
Unbelievable?Why William Tyndale’s Bible changed the world: Melvyn Bragg and Ben VirgoRenowned British broadcaster Melvyn Bragg joins Justin to talk about why, as a non-believer, he holds the Bible in such high regard. His recent book 'William Tyndale: A Very Brief History’ traces the life and legacy of the reformer William Tyndale whose English translation of the Bible laid the foundation for the King James Version. Ben Virgo of Christian Heritage London joins the conversation to explore the ways in which Tyndale’s work changed the English language, challenged the church and renewed the gospel in England. At the end of the show Sarah Yardley and Andy Bannister give...
2019-03-291h 28
Steve Wright’s Big GuestsAva Max and Melvyn BraggAva chats about her new single 'So Am I' and Melvyn discusses his book 'Love Without End'
2019-03-1111 min
Ri Science PodcastSense of Style: How to Communicate Effectively - with Experimental Psychologist Steven PinkerStyle guides set out strict rules for writing well, but how much of that grammar policing is just dogma, and how much is helpful for communication? Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker uses reason and evidence to tell us how to communicate effectively in this talk hosted by Melvyn Bragg.Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and conducts research on language and cognition but also writes for publications su...
2018-09-251h 24Steve Wright’s Big GuestsJames Arthur and Melvyn BraggJames discusses his latest single and Melvyn looks ahead to the 2018 South Bank Awards.
2018-06-2514 min
The Book ClubMelvyn Bragg on William TyndaleWith Melvyn Bragg, author of William Tyndale: A Very Brief History.Presented by Sam Leith.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcastsContact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk
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2017-11-1627 min
St Paul's CathedralSouls at Stake: Tyndale, the Bible and the 21st Cetury - Melvyn Bragg (2017)(Edited version of a longer event - this section just contains Melvyn Bragg's talk.)
William Tyndale gave us the Bible in English, and died for it. His passion was to put the Bible into the hands of everyone so that we could read it for ourselves. Executed as a heretic in 1536 for translating the Bible, within a few years his translation was in every church in England. Melvyn Bragg, broadcaster, novelist, and biographer of Tyndale explores what difference he made to our lives. Recorded 24 October 2017.
2017-10-3033 min
St Paul's CathedralSouls at Stake: Tyndale, the Bible and the 21st Century - Melvyn Bragg & Jane Williams (2017)William Tyndale gave us the Bible in English, and died for it. His passion was to put the Bible into the hands of everyone so that we could read it for ourselves. Executed as a heretic in 1536 for translating the Bible, within a few years his translation was in every church in England. Melvyn Bragg, broadcaster, novelist, and biographer of Tyndale, and Jane Williams, theologian, explore what difference he made to our lives. Chaired by Canon Mark Oakley. Recorded 24 October 2017.
2017-10-271h 28In Our Time: ScienceFeathered DinosaursAfter 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this sixth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests in 2017 discussing new discoveries about dinosaurs.Their topic is the development of theories about dinosaur feathers, following discoveries of fossils which show evidence of those feathers. All dinosaurs were originally thought to be related to lizards (the word 'd...
2017-10-2648 min
SundayMelvyn Bragg on decline of the King James Bible, Support for baby loss, Students rescued from Hurricane Irma study in PrestonMore than 700 students and families displaced by Hurricane Irma have relocated to Preston to continue their studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Kevin Bocquet looks at how the university providing spiritual and emotional support.After the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Patrick Carolan, Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network says "Gun safety is not a political issue. It is a pro-life issue, a moral issue, and an ethical issue. We need to stop just offering prayers and start acting" he debates with Pastor Vance Pitman of Hope Church, Las Vegas.Alex Strangwayes-Booth has...
2017-10-0843 minIn Our Time: ScienceBird MigrationAfter 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this fourth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss bird migration. Their topic includes why some birds migrate and others do not, how they select their destinations and how they navigate the great distances, often over oceans. For millennia, humans set their calendars to birds' annual ar...
2017-07-0651 minIn Our Time: SciencePauli's Exclusion PrincipleAfter 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this fifth of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a key figure from quantum mechanics.Their topic is the life and ideas of Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), whose Exclusion Principle is one of the key ideas in quantum mechanics. A brilliant physicist, at 21 Pauli wrote a review of...
2017-04-0648 min
FeedbackMelvyn Bragg, Feisty Moral Maze, Brexit agricultureRoger Bolton hears the comments and concerns of listeners on the past week's radio broadcasting and raises their issues with those involved in making the programmes.As In Our Time prepares to celebrate its 750th episode, Roger Bolton talks to the programme's presenter Melvyn Bragg, who reveals how he ramps up the pressure to achieve the best live programme and talks about the programmes that have transformed his thinking.Long-standing BBC Correspondent Hugh Sykes considers the importance of accurate language, responding to listeners' critiques of one of his recent reports regarding President Trump's executive order...
2017-02-1030 minIn Our Time: ScienceZeno's ParadoxesAfter 27 years, Melvyn Bragg has decided to step down from the In Our Time presenter’s chair. With over a thousand episodes to choose from, he has selected just six that capture the huge range and depth of the subjects he and his experts have tackled. In this third of his choices, we hear Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Greek philosophy.Their topic is Zeno of Elea, a pre-Socratic philosopher from c490-430 BC whose paradoxes were described by Bertrand Russell as "immeasurably subtle and profound." The best known argue against motion, such as that of an...
2016-09-2246 min
The Matter of the NorthThe 20th-Century NorthMelvyn Bragg explores the great cultural movements that came from the North of England which rippled out to affect the world - music with the Beatles, social commentary with Coronation Street and the rise of some of Britain's greatest comedians. Melvyn Bragg examines the contribution of the north to British culture throughout the 20th century - and celebrates the way in which it refreshed and transformed the arts of this country. Also included are some of the earliest voices of northerners ever recorded - part of the Berliner Lautarchiv collection recorded by Wilhelm Doegen - held at Humboldt Universitat. The...
2016-09-0827 minThe Matter of the NorthManchester: First City of the Industrial RevolutionMelvyn Bragg celebrates the achievements of Manchester, the original northern powerhouse. Its emblem is the bee, a symbol of work, cooperation and industry. It was from here that huge scientific, social and commercial changes would sweep the globe. Melvyn visits Quarry Bank Mill in Styal outside Manchester which is one of the best preserved textile mills in the country.
Melvyn visits the house of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, who chronicled the rapidly changing lives of the people who lived in or near Manchester, or Cottonopolis as it was known. Melvyn hears how a culture of dissent or non-conformity fed into...
2016-09-0627 minThe Matter of the NorthThe Rebellious Tongues of the NorthEpisode Four is the story of rebellion and dissent in the north - and the way northern dialect is beginning to be marginalised and even mocked. Melvyn Bragg begins at Clifford's Tower in York, site of a Norman fortress built to keep the north under control. It was also the site centuries later, where Robert Aske - one of the leaders of The Pilgrimage of Grace (a great Catholic Rebellion) was executed. It's in York that St Margaret Clitherow was tortured to death. Melvyn goes to Riveaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire and finds evidence that the monks were on the...
2016-09-0127 minThe Matter of the NorthThe Origins of the NorthIn this 10-part series Melvyn Bragg brings all his passion and knowledge to a subject that has enthralled and fascinated him throughout his life - the pivotal role of England's North in the shaping of modern Britain. As he traces the ebb and flow of Northern power he examines how this relatively small geographical area has had a profound effect of every part of the globe - its ideas and inventions, sport and music.
Melvyn Bragg begins the series atop Hadrian's Wall looking down onto the North of England. Programme One begins as the Roman Empire loses it grip on...
2016-08-2927 min
Engage Audiobook in Fiction, HistoricalThe Hired Man by Melvyn Bragg | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Hired Man Author: Melvyn Bragg Narrator: Malcolm Sinclair Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins Language: English Release date: 12-03-15 Publisher: Sceptre Genres: Fiction, Historical Summary: Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early '20s, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer then coal miner, and his wife, Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the...
2015-12-0305 min
ICASouthbank Show: The Life and Career of Francis Bacon - Q&A with Melvyn BraggA Q&A with Melvyn Bragg and ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir bookending a screening of "The Life and Career of Francis Bacon" episode (1985) of the Southbank Show.
https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/southbank-show-life-and-career-francis-bacon
Part of FB55:
https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/fb55
2015-04-1340 min
Poems That Make Grown Men CryMelvyn Bragg: Sonnet XXXAnthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty International; they explain why, in words as moving as the poems themselves. With Melvyn Bragg, Richard Dawkins, Richard Eyre, Mike Leigh, Simon McBurney, Ian McEwan, Ben Okri, Simon Russell Beale and Simon Schama, and Kate Allen (Amnesty International UK).
2014-05-2902 min
Notebook on Cities and CultureS4E32: Culture Over Class with Melvyn BraggColin Marshall sits down in London's West End with Melvyn Bragg, Lord Bragg of Wigton, host of Sky Arts 1's The South Bank Show and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time as well as the writer of many works of fiction and nonfiction including, most recently, The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible and his latest novel Grace and Mary. They discuss when he began seeing culture as a whole, unstratified entity; what he learned in his working-class northern upbringing; his brief days with his own pop group; his first getting an arts program on BB2 "almos...
2014-04-2545 min
2014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2014: "Who is it who can tell me who I am?" Understanding Dementia through Art and LiteratureContributor(s): Melvyn Bragg, Dr Andrea Capstick, Professor Justine Schneider | Dementia “continues to be surrounded by fear and stigma … Nearly half of UK adults acknowledge that public understanding of dementia is limited, and 73 percent of them do not believe society is geared up to deal with the condition” according to the Department of Health, who also say a key step involves “raising public understanding and challenging attitudes which may inhibit people with dementia living life to the full”. This panel discussion will explore ways of understanding dementia and dementia care through art and literature, including theatre, participatory videos and the novel with...
2014-02-251h 352014 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2014: "Who is it who can tell me who I am?" Understanding Dementia through Art and LiteratureContributor(s): Melvyn Bragg, Dr Andrea Capstick, Professor Justine Schneider | Dementia “continues to be surrounded by fear and stigma … Nearly half of UK adults acknowledge that public understanding of dementia is limited, and 73 percent of them do not believe society is geared up to deal with the condition” according to the Department of Health, who also say a key step involves “raising public understanding and challenging attitudes which may inhibit people with dementia living life to the full”. This panel discussion will explore ways of understanding dementia and dementia care through art and literature, including theatre, participatory videos and the novel with...
2014-02-251h 35Spring 2014 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2014: "Who is it who can tell me who I am?" Understanding Dementia through Art and LiteratureContributor(s): Melvyn Bragg, Dr Andrea Capstick, Professor Justine Schneider | Dementia “continues to be surrounded by fear and stigma … Nearly half of UK adults acknowledge that public understanding of dementia is limited, and 73 percent of them do not believe society is geared up to deal with the condition” according to the Department of Health, who also say a key step involves “raising public understanding and challenging attitudes which may inhibit people with dementia living life to the full”. This panel discussion will explore ways of understanding dementia and dementia care through art and literature, including theatre, participatory videos and the novel with...
2014-02-251h 35Spring 2014 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2014: "Who is it who can tell me who I am?" Understanding Dementia through Art and LiteratureContributor(s): Melvyn Bragg, Dr Andrea Capstick, Professor Justine Schneider | Dementia “continues to be surrounded by fear and stigma … Nearly half of UK adults acknowledge that public understanding of dementia is limited, and 73 percent of them do not believe society is geared up to deal with the condition” according to the Department of Health, who also say a key step involves “raising public understanding and challenging attitudes which may inhibit people with dementia living life to the full”. This panel discussion will explore ways of understanding dementia and dementia care through art and literature, including theatre, participatory videos and the novel with...
2014-02-251h 35
Front Row: Archive 2013Geoffrey Rush; artist Ellen Gallagher; Cultural Exchange - Melvyn BraggWith Mark Lawson.Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush stars alongside Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis in The Eye of the Storm, a film based on Patrick White's novel about sharp family tensions, as a middle-aged brother and sister return to the home of their dying mother. Geoffrey Rush talks about his career on stage and in films such as Shine, Pirates of the Caribbean and The King's Speech.In the latest edition of the Cultural Exchange project, in which 75 leading creative minds share their passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or other work...
2013-05-0128 min
Cultural ExchangeMelvyn BraggMelvyn Bragg chooses Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1658) for his Cultural Exchange. Plus additional archive including Neil McGregor on Rembrandt's complicated love life; a look at the mysterious Self-Portrait with Circles at Kenwood House, and artist Maggi Hambling on the Dutch master. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for more details and images.
2013-05-0118 min
The Media ShowMelvyn BraggMelvyn Bragg talks to Steve Hewlett about coverage of the Arts on TV . How important is the coverage to BBC, ITV and other broadcasters like Sky? Where's its place in the schedule and does it deserve to be given a higher profile? Questions for Alan Yentob Creative Director for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph's Gillian Reynolds.Presented by Steve Hewlett
Produced by Beverley Purcell.
2013-04-0328 min
National Theatre Podcast MP3Melvyn Bragg on The Book of BooksMelvyn Bragg, broadcaster and author, looks at the radical impact of The Kings James Bible over the last 400 years.
2012-07-1600 min
My Own ShakespeareMelvyn BraggBroadcaster Melvyn Bragg chooses a speech from King Lear (Act 3 Scene 2) as the piece of Shakeseare that has inspired him most. Reader: David Warner.
2012-05-2102 min
Don’t Miss An Award-Winning Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.In Our Time: The Written World by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/128996to listen full audiobooks.
Title: In Our Time: The Written World
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Narrator: Melvyn Bragg
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Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 01-14-12
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 10 ratings
Genres: Ireland
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2012-01-142h 19
Edinburgh International Book FestivalMelvyn Bragg (2011 Event)
Since its publication in 1611, the King James Bible has been the world’s number one bestseller. But the book has become a story in itself. It has been the Bible of wars from the British Civil War to the American Civil War and it played a part in social movements such as the abolition of slavery as well as defining attitudes to modern science, education and sex. Melvyn Bragg, in this event recorded live at the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, charts a remarkable history. In conversation with Nick Barley.
2011-09-1600 min
Get New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentVoices Of The Powerless The Complete Series by Melvyn BraggPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices Of The Powerless The Complete Series Author: Melvyn Bragg Narrator: Melvyn Bragg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. The Norman Conquest is his starting point, a time when William the Conqueror's 'harrying of the North' affected...
2011-05-0103 min
Enjoy Quantity of Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseVoices Of The Powerless The Complete Series - Melvyn BraggListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Voices Of The Powerless The Complete SeriesAuthor: Melvyn BraggNarrator: Melvyn BraggFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6:21:06Language: EnglishRelease date: 05-01-2011Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: Non-Fiction, Art & MusicSummary:Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000...
2011-05-016h 21
Fuel Your Mind With This Captivating Full Audiobook — Perfect On A Rainy Day.The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 by Melvyn BraggPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/271476to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 04-20-11
Ratings: 3.9 out of 5 stars, 13 ratings
Genres: Commentaries
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2011-04-2011h 37
Start the Week27/12/2010Andrew Marr celebrates 40 years of Start the Week. When Richard Baker first presented the show in 1970 it was a lively and often chaotic, mix of chat and celebrity knitted together by a weekly theme. Cookery demonstrations, and dancing with Wayne Sleep, rubbed shoulders with Roald Dahl and Sophia Loren discussing what frightens them, and Idi Amin playing the accordion. It was Melvyn Bragg who reinvented the programme 18 years later to make it a forum for ideas. He challenged his guests to explain their views and when guests like Maya Angelou, Francis Crick, Tom Stoppard and Salman Rushdie sat round...
2010-12-2742 minIn Our TimeMathematics' Unintended ConsequencesMelvyn Bragg and guests John Barrow, Colva Roney-Dougal and Marcus du Sautoy explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries, from the computer to online encryption, to alternating current and predicting the path of asteroids.In his book The Mathematician's Apology (1941), the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy expressed his reverence for pure maths, and celebrated its uselessness in the real world. Yet one of the branches of pure mathematics in which Hardy excelled was number theory, and it was this field which played a major role in the work of his younger colleague, Alan Turing, as he worked first to crack...
2010-02-1141 minIn Our Time: ScienceMathematics' Unintended ConsequencesMelvyn Bragg and guests John Barrow, Colva Roney-Dougal and Marcus du Sautoy explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries, from the computer to online encryption, to alternating current and predicting the path of asteroids.In his book The Mathematician's Apology (1941), the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy expressed his reverence for pure maths, and celebrated its uselessness in the real world. Yet one of the branches of pure mathematics in which Hardy excelled was number theory, and it was this field which played a major role in the work of his younger colleague, Alan Turing, as he worked first to crack...
2010-02-1141 minIn Our TimePythagorasMelvyn Bragg and guests Serafina Cuomo, John O'Connor and Ian Stewart discuss the ideas and influence of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.The Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras is probably best known for the theorem concerning right-angled triangles that bears his name. However, it is not certain that he actually developed this idea; indeed, some scholars have questioned not only his true intellectual achievements, but whether he ever existed. We do know that a group of people who said they were followers of his - the Pythagoreans - emerged around the fifth century BC. Melvyn Bragg...
2009-12-1041 minIn Our Time: SciencePythagorasMelvyn Bragg and guests Serafina Cuomo, John O'Connor and Ian Stewart discuss the ideas and influence of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.The Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras is probably best known for the theorem concerning right-angled triangles that bears his name. However, it is not certain that he actually developed this idea; indeed, some scholars have questioned not only his true intellectual achievements, but whether he ever existed. We do know that a group of people who said they were followers of his - the Pythagoreans - emerged around the fifth century BC. Melvyn Bragg...
2009-12-1041 min
In Our Time: PhilosophyPythagorasMelvyn Bragg and guests Serafina Cuomo, John O'Connor and Ian Stewart discuss the ideas and influence of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.The Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras is probably best known for the theorem concerning right-angled triangles that bears his name. However, it is not certain that he actually developed this idea; indeed, some scholars have questioned not only his true intellectual achievements, but whether he ever existed. We do know that a group of people who said they were followers of his - the Pythagoreans - emerged around the fifth century BC. Melvyn Bragg...
2009-12-1041 minIn Our TimeSartreMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, the French novelist, playwright, and philosopher who became the king of intellectual Paris and a focus of post war politics and morals. Sartre's own life was coloured by jazz, affairs, Simone de Beauvoir and the intellectual camaraderie of Left Bank cafes. He maintained an extraordinary output of plays, novels, biographies, and philosophical treatises as well as membership of the communist party and a role in many political controversies. He produced some wonderful statements: "my heart is on the left, like everyone else's", and "a human person is what he is not, not...
2004-10-0742 minIn Our Time: PhilosophySartreMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, the French novelist, playwright, and philosopher who became the king of intellectual Paris and a focus of post war politics and morals. Sartre's own life was coloured by jazz, affairs, Simone de Beauvoir and the intellectual camaraderie of Left Bank cafes. He maintained an extraordinary output of plays, novels, biographies, and philosophical treatises as well as membership of the communist party and a role in many political controversies. He produced some wonderful statements: "my heart is on the left, like everyone else's", and "a human person is what he is not, not...
2004-10-0742 minIn Our TimeThe OdysseyMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Odyssey by Homer, often claimed as the great founding work of Western Literature. It's an epic that has entertained its audience for nearly three thousand years: It has shipwrecks, Cyclops, brave heroes and seductive sex goddesses. But it’s also got revenge, true love and existential angst. The story follows on from Homer's Iliad, and tells of the Greek hero Odysseus and his long attempt to get home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what has given the Odyssey such a fundamental position in the history of western idea...
2004-09-0928 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980Melvyn BraggRoy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg.Favourite track: Pa Pa Pa... by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Champagne
1976-08-0724 min