In Our Time: Culture
Hosted by Misha Glenny and Melvyn Bragg · BBC Radio 4
4.6from 985 ratings
- 309
- Episodes
- 20
- Transcribed
- 985
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 1998
- First episode
About In Our Time: Culture
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Nov 1998
- Latest episode
- 23 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
20 of 309 episodes have a transcript.
23 Jul 2026
Vigée Le Brun
4 Jun 2026
Joseph Roth
14 May 2026
M.C. Escher
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John Keats
Published 19 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And all these works that he feels have enriched his life. And then more strategically, kites is also positioning himself in that volume of 1817, his first collection of poems with Lee Hunt, who was a recent supporter of kites, and had published one of his early poems on first looking into Chapman's Homer, and really brought kites into public attention by introducing him as one of three brilliant young poets, from whom great things would be expected. And the other two happened to be Percy Bischelli, and John Hamilton Reynolds, who becomes a close friend of kites too. Lee Hunt was something of a radical. […]
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- Helen Chambers
- Deborah Holmes
- Jon Hughes
- Marcus du Sautoy
- Sarah Hart
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 600 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 385 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100
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- Quality
- 70
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts In Our Time: Culture?
Misha Glenny and Melvyn Bragg host the show. Published by BBC Radio 4.
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