
In Our Time: 25 Classic Novels
A BBC Radio 4 Collection
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Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements
In 1998, a brand-new culture show was launched on Radio 4, featuring Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discussing the ideas, individuals and events that have shaped our world. In Our Time rapidly became one of radio's most well-loved programmes, regularly attracting over 2 million listeners eager to learn more about the topic of the week—which could be asteroids, Zoroastrianism or anything in between.
This specially curated collection charts the evolution of the novel as a literary form throughout the past four centuries, analysing 25 works ranging from Cervantes' 17th-century epic Don Quixote to George Orwell's 1945 political fable Animal Farm. Some of the best books of all time are examined and elucidated here, including Robinson Crusoe, Tristram Shandy, Emma, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway. Three additional programmes, on 'The Novel', 'Victorian Realism' and 'Literary Modernism', set these masterpieces in their historical context.
Devotees of fiction, In Our Time fans and the intellectually curious will love these dynamic, stimulating discussions, which open the door to a whole world of classic literature and invite us to venture in.
Production credits
Presented by Melvyn Bragg
Produced by Olivia Seligman, Natalia Fernandez, Thomas Morris, Simon Tillotson, Julia Johnson, Luke Mulhall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:
Part I: The Early Novel
The Novel 11 November 1999 With D J Taylor and Gillian Beer
Don Quixote 16 March 2006 With Barry Ife, Edwin Williamson and Jane Whetnall
Robinson Crusoe 22 December 2011 With Karen O'Brien, Judith Hawley and Bob Owens
Voltaire's Candide 3 May 2012 With David Wootton, Nicholas Cronk and Caroline Warman
Tristram Shandy 24 April 2014 With Judith Hawley, John Mullan and Mary Newbould
Emma 19 November 2015 With Janet Todd, John Mullan and Emma Clery
Frankenstein 16 May 2019 With Karen O'Brien, Michael Rossington and Jane Thomas
Eugene Onegin 22 June 2017 With Andrew Kahn, Emily Finer and Simon Dixon
Part II: The Victorian Novel
Victorian Realism 14 November 2002 With Philip Davis, AN Wilson and Dinah Birch
A Christmas Carol 16 December 2021 With Juliet John, Jon Mee and Dinah Birch
Jane Eyre 18 June 2015 With Dinah Birch, Karen O'Brien and Sara Lyons
Wuthering Heights 28 September 2017 With Karen O'Brien, John Bowen and Alexandra Lewis
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 30 September 2021 With Alexandra Lewis, Marianne Thormählen and John Bowen
Moby Dick 7 December 2017 With Bridget Bennett, Katie McGettigan and Graham Thompson
North and South 9 March 2017 With Sally Shuttleworth, Jenny Uglow and Dinah Birch
Aurora Leigh 24 March 2016 With Margaret Reynolds, Daniel Karlin and Karen O'Brien
Crime and Punishment 14 November 2019 With Sarah Hudspith, Oliver Ready and Sarah Young
Middlemarch 19 April 2018 With Rosemary Ashton, Kathryn Hughes and John Bowen
Tess of the d'Urbervilles 5 May 2016 With Dinah Birch, Francis O'Gorman and Jane Thomas
The Time Machine 17 October 2019 With Simon Schaffer, Amanda Rees and Simon James
Part III: The Modernist Novel
Literary Modernism 26 April 2001 With John Carey, Laura Marcus and Valentine Cunningham
Heart of Darkness 15 February 2007 With Susan Jones, Robert Hampson and Laurence Davies
James Joyce's Ulysses 14 June 2012 With Steven Connor, Jeri Johnson and Richard Brown
The Great Gatsby 14 January 2021 With Sarah Churchwell, Philip McGowan and William Blazek
Mrs Dalloway 3 July 2014 With Hermione Lee, Jane Goldman and Kathryn Simpson
Kafka's The Trial 27 November 2014 With Elizabeth Boa, Steve Connor and Ritchie Robertson
Decline and Fall 21 February 2013 With David Bradshaw, John Bowen and Ann Pasternak Slater
Animal Farm 29 September 2016 With Steven Connor, Mary Vincent and Robert Colls
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