BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Victorian (original) (raw)
Victorian
Browse the Victorian era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
Release date:
29 Dec 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
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13 Jan 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
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16 Dec 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
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18 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
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30 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
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17 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.
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04 Apr 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.
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21 Mar 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.
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05 Jul 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.
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19 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.
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28 Sep 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
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09 Mar 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.
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08 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
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10 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.
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18 Jun 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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13 Nov 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
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24 Dec 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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24 Mar 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
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07 Apr 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
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06 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
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23 Nov 2006