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A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats’ narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius. [1 hour] Featuring original music by John...
Ian McKellen reads the compete text of William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem.Featuring original music by John Harle and singer, Sarah Leonard. With Paterson Joseph as the Narrator, Charlotte Emmerson...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations. The most famous alchemical text is the Emerald Tablet, written around 500BC and attributed to the mythical...
In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the writing of history has changed over time, from ancient epics to medieval hagiographies and modern deconstructions. In the 6th century AD, the bishop of Tours began his...
An interview with Edward Albee for the Radio 4 Front Row series. As he opens a London production of The Goat, where an architect falls in love with a goat, Edward Albee also discusses teasing audiences in...
Four 45-minute broadcasts in the 2010 series of Reith Lectures, exploring the challenges facing science in the 21st century. Delivered by Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity...
Neil MacGregor, British Museum Director tells the story of humanity over two million years through 100 manmade objects, all from the Museum’s collection. In this 20 CD set of the landmark BBC Radio 4...
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the...
Radio feature. Author and historian Jerry Brotton investigates the history of relations between England and the Islamic world during the early modern period, a complex alliance that he finds dramatised in...
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