Blogs about: Melvyn Bragg

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Lord Bragg: "These guys are too worried."

Dan Howell wrote 4 days ago: Peter Sissons and Lord Melvyn Bragg: Similar Warnings With Peter Sissons’ damning criticism of … more →

Tags: media, BBC

francis bacon

peter rudd wrote 1 month ago: Here is a documentary about the British painter Francis Bacon from the South Bank Show on ubuwe … more →

Tags: Art, Francis Bacon

Monday: Connexions73 comments

riverdaughter wrote 1 month ago: Remember when Lady Catherine De Bourgh condescended to pay Miss Elizabeth Bennet a visit to warn her … more →

Tags: Economy, planet money, in our times, aristocracy

Pue's Recommendations for June

puesoccurrences wrote 1 month ago: Pue’s Recommendations is a (mostly biased) monthly list of things worth reading, watching, listening … more →

Tags: Pue Recommends, BBC, RTE, What in the world...?, helvetica, Antennae, Dublin Writer's Festival, Arthur Miller, Dublin Shakespeare Festival

The South Bank Show: RIP

Journopig wrote 2 months ago: At first, when we heard the news of the South Bank Show’s demise (read about it here), we were … more →

Tags: television programmes, Presenters, itv, South Bank Show, BBC4, SkyArts

My Top 6 List

twins4reading wrote 3 months ago: Here dear twin is my top 6 list (I’m too tired/uncreative to come up with 10….no, no wai … more →

Tags: Dead Souls, Lost, Brave New World, Top 6 list, Brady-iana, Chapped Hides, In OUr Time

soma free love and the feelies

peter rudd wrote 3 months ago: I subscribe to Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time newsletter.  In Our Time is a culture radio program … more →

Tags: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, distopia, utopia

Bragg's finch

Sarah wrote 3 months ago: There’s more to writing about yourself and your relations than brute honesty advocates such a … more →

Tags: Culture, Books, radio, Fiction, liz Jones, autobiography, Cognitive Bias, Truth and lies, Darwin's Finches

In Our Times4 comments

ninakillham wrote 4 months ago: I listened to the program In Our Times on BBC’s Radio 4 yesterday while driving home from drop … more →

Tags: writing, Radio 4, quantum mechanics

Essex Literary Festival is 101 comment

saraharrow wrote 4 months ago: The Essex Literary Festival is 10 in March this year – Happy Birthday The Essex Book Festival … more →

Tags: ELEP witterings, Essex, Martina Cole, Bernard Cornwell, Joan Bakewell, Roy Hattersley, loughton, BBC Essex, Essex literary festival

Super Sunday podcast alert1 comment

stevenhartwriter wrote 5 months ago: I heard there was some kind of big deal professional sports event going on today. In case you don … more →

Tags: The Reading Life, Junot Diaz, Samuel R. Delaney, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, drown, Driftglass, Azar Nafisi

Darwin's birthday

Serena Trowbridge wrote 6 months ago: I decided that as a Victorianist I should mark Darwin’s birthday by listening to Radio 4 … more →

Tags: History, radio, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Radio 4, Ruskin, The Origin of the Species

the brutality of fact

pensum wrote 7 months ago: Francis Bacon interviewed by David Sylvester (1966) Part One Part Two Ubuweb also has a ve … more →

Tags: Art, Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, British Art, 1960s

Monday 24th November - My Letter to Santa4 comments

katyboo1 wrote 7 months ago: Dear Santa I have discovered just what it is that I want for Christmas this year.  Unfortunately. I … more →

Tags: General, housewife, humour, Life, Nonsense, bram stoker's chair, britart, david beckham sleeping, dear santa

iTunes: Hyperbole and Complaint, and a Podcast Plug

Karen wrote 7 months ago: Last year I got an iPod Shuffle, Second Generation (1GB) for Christmas. I didn’t know that I … more →

Tags: observations, Podcasts, iTunes, iPod shuffle, Second Generation, workaround, The Cyrkle, red rubber ball, In OUr Time

Thoughts on English...

cburfield wrote 9 months ago:   I recently finished another audio book and this time I went with non-fiction.  Anybody who knows m … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, British History, The Bible, The Reformation

Laurence Olivier on the South Bank Show1 comment

Kendra wrote 10 months ago: Did anyone over in England catch the “Celebrating..The South bank Show” on ITV3 last wee … more →

Tags: Vivien Leigh, News, Laurence Olivier, the oliviers, Celebrities, Documentaries, interviews, Kevin Spacey, the south bank show

The Adventure of English

elladk wrote 1 year ago: I’ve got more to say about Spain, but I still need to put some photos on the computer from my … more →

Tags: Books, History, The Adventure of English, Language Development, the history of English

Nicene Creed3 comments

Christian Selvaratnam wrote 1 year ago: Melvyn Bragg hosts an informative discussion about the Nicene Creed today on BBC Radio 4’s In … more →

Tags: Faith, BBC, In OUr Time, Nicene Creed, Radio 4


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