In Our Time
The companion to the Radio 4 series
$51.87
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2010
Summary
Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on UK BBC. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to religion, literature and biology.
We can discover the reasons for the fall of the Byzantine empire, and why women were persecuted as witches in the seventeenth century. What shape is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340977521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340977523 |
| Author: | Melvyn Bragg |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 478g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 38mm |
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What might be the best radio programme ever
IN OUR TIME’s success derives in part from the interested public having Melvyn Bragg in their corner… his lack of intellectual vanity is impress, but so is his grasp of the subjects at hand. - Times Literary Supplement
These transcripts select a treasure-trove of discussions from a decade of the Radio 4 jewel. - the Independent‘The best programme on Radio 4 is In Our Time…it informs, educates and entertains’. - Sunday TelegraphMelvyn Bragg’s matchless colloquies on Radio 4 - Stephen FryThe best programme coming out of the entire corporation these days - David Sexton, Sunday TelegraphMelvyn Bragg’s consistently superb In Our Time - John BanvilleWhat might be the best radio programme ever - Oliver Burkeman, GuardianBragg’s excellent radio programmes on the subject ….are the basis of this history of English over the past 1,500 years. - Guardian on The Adventure of EnglishAbout The Author
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg has written several works of non-fiction (as well as his bestselling novels): On Giants Shoulders, based on his UK BBC radio series, 12 Books That Changed the World, and The Adventure of English. He is President of the National Campaign for the Arts and Mind, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.
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