Victorian

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and consequences of the Famine of 1845-49.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'the only influential poet of the Victorian age'.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a great cultural figure of the 19th century.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Eliot's greatest novel, published 1871-72.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Harriet Martineau, writer.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.