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Melvyn Bragg and guests analyse 25 key poets and literary works, tracing the evolution of poetry over 550 years.
Since its debut in 1998, In Our Time has amassed a dedicated following of more than 2 million listeners. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg, with a panel of guest experts, each show features a plethora of fascinating facts and inspirational discourse on topics ranging from democracy to dark matter.
This specially curated collection celebrates the rich diversity of poetry in English, focusing on 25 major works and writers from the mediaeval era to the 20th Century. Opening with a programme on Geoffrey Chaucer, often called the father of English literature, it encompasses some of the greatest poets of all time, including John Donne, Pope, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, W B Yeats and Wilfred Owen.
Among the influential poems discussed are Shakespeare's sonnets, Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' and the epic that made Byron famous, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'. Also featured is a bonus episode, 'The Sonnet', exploring the most enduring form in the poet's armoury and how its fourteen lines have exercised poetic minds.
Packed with stimulating ideas and spellbinding rhetoric, this absorbing anthology is guaranteed to bring unfettered enjoyment to all lovers of the written word.
Production credits
Presented by Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Simon Tillotson, Thomas Morris and Natalia Fernandez
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:
Chaucer 9 February 2006
Piers Plowman 29 October 2020
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 13 December 2018
Shakespeare's Sonnets 24 June 2021
John Donne 12 January 2023
Milton 7 March 2002
Pope 9 November 2006
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 23 June 2016
Lyrical Ballads 8 March 2012
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 4 March 2021
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 6 January 2011
The Prelude 22 November 2007
John Clare 9 February 2017
Emily Dickinson 11 May 2017
Christina Rossetti 1 December 2011
The Charge of the Light Brigade 10 January 2008
Tennyson's In Memoriam 30 June 2011
Aurora Leigh 24 March 2016
William Morris 5 July 2018
Gerard Manley Hopkins 21 March 2019
Walt Whitman 27 April 2023
Thomas Hardy's Poetry 13 January 2022
Yeats and Mysticism 31 January 2002
Yeats and Irish Politics 17 April 2008
Wilfred Owen 27 October 2022
The Sonnet 21 June 2001
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Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Underdevelop Ending
- By tanya on 12-16-24
By: Jane E. James
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The Plight Before Christmas
- By: Kate Stewart
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,053
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,895
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,890
Clark Griswold was onto something...at least with his annual holiday meltdown. And since the last three weeks of my life have been riddled with humbug—another breakup, a broken toe, an office promotion I deserved and didn’t get—I’m not at all in the mood to celebrate nor have the happ, happ, happiest Christmas EVER.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gaslighting and games
- By FMC on 12-22-22
By: Kate Stewart
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The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- By: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Story4 out of 5 stars 251
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- By joey1603 on 12-01-24
By: Fredrik Backman, and others
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Starship Troopers
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,089
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,089
Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The definitive version!
- By Kristopher G. Hesson on 10-03-24
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Dead Med
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso, Scott Merriman
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 954
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 929
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 929
When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmm
- By Morgan Meaux on 08-22-24
By: Freida McFadden