In Our Time: Culture
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<p>Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.</p>
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May 7, 2026
Handel's Messiah
<p>Misha Glenny and his guests discuss the most famous oratorio of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and his librettist Charles Jennens (1700-1773). For his libretto, Jennens drew from Old and New Testament texts: prophecies about the coming of Jesus, the Messiah, the nativity, the suffering of Christ and his death and the Day of Judgement and redemption for all. Handel's Messiah had its premiere in 1742 in a secular Dublin music hall to great acclaim with a packed audience and Handel continued to adapt his Messiah for later performances, often shaping the work to the choirs or individual singers available. Messiah proved to be one of his most popular works, becoming a favourite of massed choirs around the world far beyond the scale of Handel’s original.</p><p>With </p><p>Donald Burrows Emeritus Professor of Music at the Open University</p><p>Ruth Smith Trustee and Council Member of the Handel Institute</p><p>And</p><p>Larry Zazzo Countertenor, and Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University</p><p>Producer: Simon Tillotson</p><p>Reading list:</p><p>Donald Burrows, Messiah (full score, 2 vols, Hallische Händel Ausgabe, forthcoming)</p><p>Donald Burrows, Messiah (Edition Peters, 1987)</p><p>Donald Burrows, Messiah, Cambridge Music Handbooks (Cambridge University Press, 1991)</p><p>Donald Burrows, Handel: Master Musicians series, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2012)</p><p>George Frideric Handel (ed. Donald Burrows et al.), Collected Documents vol. 3 (1734-42), vol 4 (1742-50), (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 2020)</p><p>G.F. Handel, facsimile ‘Messiah’: the composer’s autograph manuscript (British Library, 2009)</p><p>G.F. Handel, facsimile the composer’s Conducting Score of Messiah (Scolar Press, 1974) Arthur Holroyd, Reassuring 18th-Century Protestants: The Librettist’s Intended Message for Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (Quacks Books, 2018)</p><p>Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Doubleday/Bodley Head, 2024)</p><p>Jens Peter Larsen, Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Adam and Charles Black, 1957)</p><p>Richard Luckett, Handel’s Messiah: A Celebration (Victor Gollancz, 1992)</p><p>Watkins Shaw, A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (Novello and Co, 1965)</p><p>Ruth Smith, ‘The Achievements of Charles Jennens (1700–1773)’ (Music & Letters, 70, 1989)</p><p>Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man behind Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (Handel House Trust/The Gerald Coke Handel Foundation, 2012)</p><p>Ruth Smith, Handel’s Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)</p><p>Calvin R. Stapert, Handel’s Messiah: Comfort for God’s People (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010)</p><p>Judy Tarling, Handel’s Messiah: A Rhetorical Guide (first published 2014; Punnett Press, 2025)</p><p>In Our Time is a BBC Studios production</p><p>Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.</p>
April 16, 2026
Dadaism
<p>Misha Glenny and guests discuss the provocative artistic phenomenon that first startled audiences in 1916 in Zurich. There, at the Cabaret Voltaire at the Holländische Meierei on the Spiegelgasse, Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball and others gathered on a small stage, sometimes dressed in cardboard, often performing nonsense poems. This was the start of Dada, a spirit more than a movement which spread to other cities in Europe during the war. In part the Dadas (as they called themselves) were protesting against the inevitability of constant wars on the continent and in part this was an artistic experiment around the absurd; they were creating poems, songs, costumes and art that made no obvious sense, just as the war around them made no sense to the artists, designers and poets at the Cabaret Voltaire.</p><p>With Dawn Ades Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex</p><p>Ruth Hemus Professor of French and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London</p><p>And</p><p>Stephen Forcer Professor of French at the University of Glasgow</p><p>Produced by Martha Owen</p><p>Reading list:</p><p>Dawn Ades (ed.), The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology (Tate Publishing, 2006)</p><p>Hugo Ball (trans. Ann Raimes and ed. John Elderfield), Flight out of Time: A Dada Diary (first published 1927; University of California Press, 1996)</p><p>Stephen Forcer, Dada as Text, Thought and Theory (Legenda, 2015)</p><p>Ruth Hemus, Dada's Women (Yale University Press, 2009)</p><p>David Hopkins, Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004)</p><p>Jed Rasula, Destruction was my Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 2015)</p><p>In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production</p><p>Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.</p>
March 19, 2026
John Keats
Host Misha Glenny interviews Fiona Stafford, Nicholas Roe, and Meiko O’Halloran about John Keats's brief life and enduring poetic legacy.
306 total episodes available with 11 transcripts
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