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MelvynBragg discusses the Baroque - a term used to describe a vast array of painting, music, architecture and sculpture from the 17th and 18th centuries. His guests this week are Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge; Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester; and Helen Hills, Professor...
MelvynBragg opens up the mind and delves into the complex world of the brain in this discussion about neuroscience. His guests this week are Martin Conway, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leeds; Gemma Calvert, Professor of Applied Neuroimaging at Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick; and David Papineau, Professor of Philosophy of Science at King’s College London....
MelvynBragg discusses the Spanish American liberator, Simon Bolivar. He is joined by Anthony McFarlane, Professor of Latin American History at the University of Warwick; John Fisher, Professor of Latin American History at the University of Liverpool; and Catherine Davies, Professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Thanksgiving break is a good opportunity to catch up on some podcasts and write blog posts with immodest titles. So I was listening to MelvynBragg's "In our time" panel discussion on neuroscience. Though many histories might be written, the...
The fourteenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards took place last week. The awards were set up by Auberon Waugh with the aim of gently dissuading authors and publishers from including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels. Previous winners include Tom Wolfe, AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks, and MelvynBragg....
THE ORIGINS OF OUR WORDS Reviewed by Cynthia D. Bertelsen 16 November 2008 Roanoke Times & World News In "The Secret Life of Words," British author Henry Hitchings joins Bill Bryson ("The Mother Tongue"), MelvynBragg ("The Adventures of English") and Robert McCrum ("The Story of English") in seeking the bloodline of English, a language spoken by an estimated 350 million native speakers...
MelvynBragg discusses Aristotle's 'Politics' - a two and a half thousand year old collection of notes that have cast a very long shadow in political philosophy. He is joined by Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick; Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge; and Annabel Brett, Senior Lecturer in History...
In Korea, a person’s sixtieth birthday is known as hwangap. It signifies a compete turn in the cycle of being from birth and the completion of life’s journey. I’m not sure if Prince Charles ever really started out. But nevertheless : There is a rather embarrassing "Prince of Wales's party" whose unlikely members, from Trevor Phillips to MelvynBragg to Clive James, are wheeled out from...
... Radio 4 all of the radio related ones are. On my subscription list you’ll find In Our Time With MelvynBragg, Thinking Allowed and the Friday Night Comedy Podcast from Radio 4 (The Now Show and The News Quiz according to season) - It’s not all Radio 4 though as I have also recently been listening to: The Math Factor, Philosophy: The Classics and the Word Nerds. It’s no wonder that...
Podcast favourite In Our Time this week discusses Dante's Inferno . After ten minutes MelvynBragg asks Claire Honess, Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leeds, why there are nine circles in Hell. I was surprised by her answer ("I don't know"). Isn't it common knowledge that the poem is structured in honour of the Trinity - nine being the square of three? William Anderson...
My love of Dante has been well-documented (see here , here , and here ) and rewarded (see here , here , and here ). For those of you who've yearned for a more scholarly treatment of the first canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno , the most recent episode of MelvynBragg's BBC Radio 4 program, In Our Time , covers the topic and is available online .
MelvynBragg delves into the depths of Dante's medieval poetic vision of hell. He is joined by Margaret Kean, University Lecturer in English and College Fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford; John Took, Professor of Dante Studies at University College London; and Claire Honess, Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leeds and Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante...
MelvynBragg's latest BBC podcast addresses the issue of vitalism. As you might now, vitalism is the central issue of Byron Hawk's excellent Counter-History of Composition. There are some important connections between the concept of vitalism and theories of composition....
... is still around, narrating smugly, years after she supposedly died. Another mystery: what does MelvynBragg have in common with Fearne Cotton or Sarah Cawood? Not much, but those cheerful rent-a-presenters did come to mind during Bond: The South Bank Show, as it resembled a glorified version of those Behind the Making Of… clip shows that are purely promotional fluff jobs for a blockbuster...
