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Hace 4 días · InOurTime 20220203 The Temperance MovementIn Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the momentum behind teetotalism in 19th Century Britain, when calls for...
Hace 3 días · Introduced by Melvyn Bragg, Word of Mouth traces the pattern of speech in Britain. Eh La deals with Scouse, a dialect that was the result of the rich mingling of races and cultures in Liverpool.
Hace 1 día · Host Melvyn Bragg speaks with historians about The East India Company and its role in forging the British Empire. Founded in 1600, the company lasted for 258 years before the British state gained full control of its activities. In that time it had redrawn the map of India, built an empire and reinvented the fashions and the foodstuffs of Britain.
Hace 2 días · On Sunday 2 June, St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in History, Professor George Garnett, was a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s “In our Time” hosted by Melvyn Bragg, where they discussed the Italian scholar and important political figure Marsilius of Padua (c1275 to c1343) who wrote ‘Defensor Pacis” (The Defender of the Peace) around 1324 when the Papacy, the Holy Roman Emperor and the French ...
Hace 4 días · The critically acclaimed one-man show Kafka, adapted, scripted and performed by Jack Klaff, will receive its first production in London in over 30 years at the multi- award-winning Finborough Theatre, for a four week limited season. Kafka was buried in Prague on 11 June 1924, and this production opens at Finborough Theatre 100 years later to ...
Hace 2 días · Professor Smith is among the best-known names in contemporary Shakespeare scholarship: a world-leading authority on the First Folio, a regular guest on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time on Radio 4, and the author or co-author of multiple studies of the Poet and his work.
Hace 3 días · “But it kind of got lost.” There was a 1975 BBC TV adaption made of it, narrated by Melvyn Bragg; but that was three years after its release, by which time Nicol had left to join Hutchings in the newly-formed Albion Band (soon to be followed by Mattacks) – and Fairport’s days were numbered. As Pegg recalls: “The TV thing was great.
