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Les Misérables: novel of the century?

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses the 19th-century novel with David Bellos, Dinah Birch, Simon Callow and Barbara Hannigan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
David Bellos
Interviewed Guest:
Dinah Birch
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Callow
Interviewed Guest:
Barbara Hannigan
Producer:
Katy Hickman

In Our Time

Henrik Ibsen

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Norwegian playwright whose middle-class tragedies include A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler and An Enemy of the People. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Tore Rem
Interviewed Guest:
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Interviewed Guest:
Dinah Birch

In Our Time

North and South

Duration: 48 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, who set her 1855 novel in a version of Manchester she called Milton in the county of Darkshire. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Sally Shuttleworth
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny Uglow
Interviewed Guest:
Dinah Birch

In Our Time

Jane Eyre

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Dinah Birch
Interviewed Guest:
Karen O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Sara Lyons

In Our Time

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Duration: 47 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, which challenged Victorian morality and made Hardy's fortune when published in the 1890s. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Dinah Birch
Interviewed Guest:
Francis O'Gorman
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Thomas