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| 150 Years Of Punch | ...... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...1999 is the 40th anniversary of C P Snow's lecture, `The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution'. The two cultures were the scientific community and the literary establishment. Panellists Susan Greenfield, Lewis Wolpert, Gillian Beer and Simon Jenkins debate the motion: `This house believes that 40 years after CP Snow's lecture, Britain is still a nation of two cultures'. Chairman MELVYN BRAGG ... |
| Centurions | ...Critics Philip French and MELVYN BRAGG reassess the impact of Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film, The Seventh Seal.... |
| Darwin - In Our Time | ...To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 2009 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, MELVYN BRAGG presents a series about Darwin's life and work.... |
| Do You Know What You're Saying? | ...MELVYN BRAGG discovers how computer technology has been brought in to offer a fresh form of language analysis. The 'Language Analyser' is the brainchild of Malcolm Galfe.... |
| Ena | ...Featuring contributions from Tony Warren, creator of Coronation Street and of Ena Sharples. Geoffrey Wheeler, who worked with Violet Carson at the BBC, traces the quickfire delivery of Ena back to the northern music hall tradition. MELVYN BRAGG talks about how Ena Sharples reflected life in the black and white world of the north in the 1950s. Scriptwriter Adele Rose discusses the pivotal relationship between Ena Sharples and her bete noir, Elsie Tanner.... |
| Festschrift For Lucky Jim, A | ...Laurie Taylor celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim. Contributors include Germaine Greer, MELVYN BRAGG and Norman Stone.... |
| From All The Performing Arts | ...MELVYN BRAGG presents a special celebration of Sheridan Morley's contribution to the Radio 2 Arts programme over 12 years and 1000 editions.... |
| In Our Time | ...MELVYN BRAGG and guests discuss the history of ideas.... |
| My Booze Hell, By Little Johnny Cartilage | ...Johnny fails to impress MELVYN BRAGG while plugging his autobiography on Start the Week.... |
| Melvyn Bragg - In Our Time [summary] | |
| On Giants' Shoulders | ...Four programmes in which MELVYN BRAGG talks to today's great scientists and historians about the giants who have made scientific history. 1: `Archimedes - the First Scientist?'.... |
| Private Passions | ...MELVYN BRAGG... |
| Reading Between The Lines [drama] | ...... |
| Reading Between The Lines | ...... |
| Reading Chekhov | ...... |
| Reith Lectures, The | ...The fiftieth season of Reith Lectures continues with the third of five lectures, `War and Our World', by military historian John Keegan. MELVYN BRAGG introduces the event and chairs questions from an invited audience gathered in the Great Hall, King's College, London. / The first of five lectures, `War and Our World', is given by military historian John Keegan. MELVYN BRAGG introduces the event and chairs questions from an invited audience gathered in the Faraday Lecture Theatre at the Royal Institution, London.... |
| Routes Of English, The | ...MELVYN BRAGG presents a 12-part history celebrating 1,000 years of the spoken language of Britain, from the first to the second millennium. 1: `Home'. How we think of - and the words we need and use to describe - our patch. Bragg travels to his home town of Wigton in Cumbria to listen to locals talk about their idea of home. NB Series 1 "Evolving English" and series 2 "Humour and Cussing" were rebroadcast as a 12 part series running from 20000706 to 20000921.... |
| Shuttleworths, The | ...John and Ken end their search for a new time slot. With 'appearances' by Sue Lawley, Ken Bruce, Terry Wogan, MELVYN BRAGG.... |
| Son Of Cliche | ...From a spoof MELVYN BRAGG to a signing chimp. Sketch comedy with Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton. From November 1984.... |
| Voices Of The Powerless | ...MELVYN BRAGG explores the lives of ordinary working men and women in Britain over the last 1,000 years.... |
| Wilberforce | ...In an unusual edition of In Our Time, marking the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade, MELVYN BRAGG leaves the studio to examine the life of William Wilberforce.... |
| Woman's Hour | ...... |