#melvin bragg

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“Hannah Arendt”, In Our Time

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Melvin Bragg, portrait by Neil Spence

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John Ruskin - In Our Time - radio

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of John Ruskin. He was the most brilliant art critic of his age, perhaps the most brilliant that Britain has ever produced, but he was much more than that. A champion of Turner and an enemy of Whistler, he placed the study of art and architecture at the heart of a moral assault on Victorian life. In the stone work of a Gothic cathedral, Ruskin saw all that was right about medieval society and all that was wrong about his own capitalist age.But why was Ruskin so critical of his own time? What deep currents of thought infused his ideas? And how much does our thinking, about society, the environment, art and work owe to this unusual man?With Dinah Birch, Professor of English, Liverpool University; Keith Hanley, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin Programme, Lancaster University; Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9bv

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Prague Postscript

For all those who are interested in Kafka, there was an excellent programme on BBC’s Radio 4 this morning:

Melvin Bragg’s In Our Time focused on The Trial in the context of Kafka’s own life, and this is now available as a podcast.

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Finally, some good news!

All of our fish-related worries have been assuaged

Image via Adam Devlin.

Thank goodness for that

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Ian Bostridge interviewed by Melvin Bragg on The South Bank Show, 8 July 2001, joined by Julius Drake.

(6 parts.  Enjoy!)