Romantic
Browse the Romantic era within the In Our Time archive.
Persuasion
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
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Polidori's The Vampyre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1819 work that inspired two centuries of vampire tales
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Coleridge's famous poem of a sailor who shot an albatross.
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Frankenstein
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's Gothic story of a monster brought to life
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
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Goethe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German polymath, Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
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Humboldt
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
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The Brothers Grimm
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
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The Later Romantics
Melvyn Bragg examines the poetry, tragedy and idealism of Byron, Shelley and Keats.
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The Peterloo Massacre
Melvyn Bragg examines the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and the brutality of the British state.
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The Romantics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideals, exponents and legacy of Romanticism.
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