In Our Time | Lear

In Our Time | A Midsummer Night's Dream

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas behind Shakespeare's comedy with its intertwining plots of royal marriage, crossed lovers, ...

In Our Time | Hamlet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its f...

In Our Time | Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's treatment of English Plantagenet history from Richard II to Richard III ...

In Our Time | Is Shakespeare History? The Romans

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's treatment of Roman history, where he had scope to explore ideas too threatenin...

In Our Time | Lear

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey and Katherine Duncan-Jones to examine Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear; how its themes of rule a...

In Our Time | Macbeth

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition where Macbeth saves his King from one revolt only to murder and replace him, to fulfi...

In Our Time | Romeo and Juliet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry and power of Shakespeare's tragedy of two young lovers in Verona, their families divided by a bitte...

In Our Time | Shakespeare's Sonnets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 154 sonnets collected and printed in 1609 of which some are famous, many are glorious, most are inspi...