<description>&lt;p&gt;Misha Glenny and guests discuss the short life and lasting works of Keats (1795-1821), who in one year wrote some of the most loved poems in English. Among these are Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on Melancholy. That most productive year began in autumn 1818, when Keats had been stung by some reviews labelling him an uncouth Cockney who should go back to his former work as an apothecary, work he had left for poetry only two years before with the encouragement of enthusiastic friends. Just over two years later, Keats was dead in Rome from tuberculosis, before his work found fame, though some who knew him, including Shelley, believed his true killer was the critics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fiona Stafford
Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nicholas Roe
Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meiko O’Halloran,
Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Producer: Simon Tillotson&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading list:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Barnard, John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 1987)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Katie Garner and Nicholas Roe (eds), John Keats and Romantic Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2022)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ian Jack, Keats and the Mirror of Art (Oxford University Press, 1967) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Selected Writings (Oxford University Press, 2020)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Oxford 21st-Century Authors (University Press, 2017)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Keats (ed. John Barnard), Selected Poems (Penguin, 2007)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Keats (ed. John Barnard), The Complete Poems (Penguin, 2nd edition, 1977)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Keats (ed. Jeffrey N. Cox), Keats’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition (W. W. Norton &amp;amp; Company, 2008)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carol Kyros Walker, Walking North with Keats (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Marggraf Turley (ed.), Keats’s Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucasta Miller, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (Jonathan Cape, 2021) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael O’Neill (ed.), John Keats in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christopher Ricks, Keats and Embarrassment (Oxford University Press, 1974) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New Life (Yale University Press, 2012)
 
Helen Vendler, The Odes of Keats (Belknap Press, 2004)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Susan J. Wolfson, Reading John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2015)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Susan J. Wolfson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2001)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How one of the great Romantic poets produced so much in his brilliant but short life.

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the short life and lasting works of Keats (1795-1821), who in one year wrote some of the most loved poems in English. Among these are Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on Melancholy. That most productive year began in autumn 1818, when Keats had been stung by some reviews labelling him an uncouth Cockney who should go back to his former work as an apothecary, work he had left for poetry only two years before with the encouragement of enthusiastic friends. Just over two years later, Keats was dead in Rome from tuberculosis, before his work found fame, though some who knew him, including Shelley, believed his true killer was the critics.WithFiona Stafford
Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, University of OxfordNicholas Roe
Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St AndrewsAndMeiko O’Halloran,
Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle UniversityProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:John Barnard, John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 1987)Katie Garner and Nicholas Roe (eds), John Keats and Romantic Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2022)Ian Jack, Keats and the Mirror of Art (Oxford University Press, 1967) John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Selected Writings (Oxford University Press, 2020)John Keats (ed. John Barnard), John Keats: Oxford 21st-Century Authors (University Press, 2017)John Keats (ed. John Barnard), Selected Poems (Penguin, 2007)John Keats (ed. John Barnard), The Complete Poems (Penguin, 2nd edition, 1977)John Keats (ed. Jeffrey N. Cox), Keats’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition (W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 2008)Carol Kyros Walker, Walking North with Keats (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)Richard Marggraf Turley (ed.), Keats’s Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Lucasta Miller, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (Jonathan Cape, 2021) Michael O’Neill (ed.), John Keats in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017)Christopher Ricks, Keats and Embarrassment (Oxford University Press, 1974) Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New Life (Yale University Press, 2012)
 
Helen Vendler, The Odes of Keats (Belknap Press, 2004)Susan J. Wolfson, Reading John Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2015)Susan J. Wolfson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Keats (Cambridge University Press, 2001)In Our Time is a BBC Studios ProductionSpanning 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.

John Keats

<description>&lt;p&gt;Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the most successful of Shakespeare's plays in his own time. Written with no Part 2 in mind as 'Henry the Fourth', the play explores ideas about who can be a legitimate ruler and why, and how anyone can rightly succeed to the throne. This was an especially pressing question for his Tudor audience as Elizabeth I had named no successor. Playwrights, banned from openly discussing the jeopardy her subjects faced, turned to these themes of power, legitimacy and succession in distant and recent history. When Shakespeare combined this relevance with the vivid characters of Falstaff, Hotspur and Hal and with the tensions between noble fathers and sons, he had a play that fascinated well into the Jacobean era and has been revived throughout the centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emma Smith
Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucy Munro
Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Kings College London&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Laurence Publicover
Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Bristol&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Producer: Simon Tillotson&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading list:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hailey Bachrach, Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s English History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2023)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Warren Chernaik, The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2007) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power (Bodley Head, 2018) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Graham Holderness, Shakespeare: The Histories (Red Globe Press, 1999)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jean Howard and Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (Routledge, 1997)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Shakespeare (eds. Indira Ghose, Anna Pruitt and Emma Smith), Henry IV Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2024) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Shakespeare (ed. Gordon McMullan), 1 Henry IV: A Norton Critical Edition, 3rd edition (Norton, 2003) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the most successful of Shakespeare's plays in his own time. Written with no Part 2 in mind as 'Henry the Fourth', the play explores ideas about who can be a legitimate ruler and why, and how anyone can rightly succeed to the throne. This was an especially pressing question for his Tudor audience as Elizabeth I had named no successor. Playwrights, banned from openly discussing the jeopardy her subjects faced, turned to these themes of power, legitimacy and succession in distant and recent history. When Shakespeare combined this relevance with the vivid characters of Falstaff, Hotspur and Hal and with the tensions between noble fathers and sons, he had a play that fascinated well into the Jacobean era and has been revived throughout the centuries.WithEmma Smith
Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of OxfordLucy Munro
Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Kings College LondonAndLaurence Publicover
Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of BristolProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Hailey Bachrach, Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s English History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2023)Warren Chernaik, The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power (Bodley Head, 2018) Graham Holderness, Shakespeare: The Histories (Red Globe Press, 1999)Jean Howard and Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (Routledge, 1997)William Shakespeare (eds. Indira Ghose, Anna Pruitt and Emma Smith), Henry IV Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2024) William Shakespeare (ed. Gordon McMullan), 1 Henry IV: A Norton Critical Edition, 3rd edition (Norton, 2003) In Our Time is a BBC Studios ProductionSpanning 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.

Henry IV Part 1

<description>&lt;p&gt;Journalist, author and historian Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time, succeeding Melvyn Bragg who retired from this role last summer. Misha and his guests discuss the landmark work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 and the increasing recognition for his wife Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution. The subject matter of the essay is ‘civil or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual’ and it argues that the sole end for which mankind may interfere with the liberty of action of anyone is self-protection and even then only to prevent harm to others. This essay became enormously popular and a foundational text for liberalism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Helen McCabe
Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Philp
Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Piers Norris Turner
Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Producer: Simon Tillotson&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading list: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jo Ellen Jacobs (ed.), Harriet Taylor Mill, Complete Works (Indiana University Press, 1998) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bruce L. Kinzer, Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868 (University of Toronto Press, 1992)
 
Christopher Macleod and Dale Miller (eds.), A Companion to Mill (Wiley, 2016)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Helen McCabe, Harriet Taylor Mill (Cambridge, 2023)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Piers Norris Turner, ‘The Arguments of On Liberty: Mill’s Institutional Designs’ (Nineteenth-Century Prose 47 (1), 2020)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Piers Norris Turner et al (eds.), John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, On Liberty with Related Writings (Hackett Publishing, forthcoming 2026)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Philp (ed.), John Stuart Mill: Autobiography (Oxford University Press, 2018)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen (eds.), John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and other Essays (Oxford University Press, 2015)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Frederick Rosen, Mill (Oxford University Press, 2013)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alan Ryan, The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Palgrave MacMillan, 1998)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ben Saunders, ‘Reformulating Mill’s Harm Principle’ (Mind 125/500, 2016)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Skorupski, Why Read Mill Today? (Routledge, 2006)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William Stafford, John Stuart Mill (Red Globe Press, 1998)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;C. L. Ten (ed.), Mill: On Liberty: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2008)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nadia Urbinati and Alex Zakaras (eds.), John Stuart Mill’s Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge University Press, 2007) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Our Time is a BBC Studios production&lt;/p&gt;</description>

John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.

Journalist, author and historian Misha Glenny presents his first edition of In Our Time, succeeding Melvyn Bragg who retired from this role last summer. Misha and his guests discuss the landmark work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 and the increasing recognition for his wife Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution. The subject matter of the essay is ‘civil or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual’ and it argues that the sole end for which mankind may interfere with the liberty of action of anyone is self-protection and even then only to prevent harm to others. This essay became enormously popular and a foundational text for liberalism.WithHelen McCabe
Professor of Political Theory at the University of NottinghamMark Philp
Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at the University of WarwickAndPiers Norris Turner
Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State UniversityProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: Jo Ellen Jacobs (ed.), Harriet Taylor Mill, Complete Works (Indiana University Press, 1998) Bruce L. Kinzer, Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868 (University of Toronto Press, 1992)
 
Christopher Macleod and Dale Miller (eds.), A Companion to Mill (Wiley, 2016)Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021)Helen McCabe, Harriet Taylor Mill (Cambridge, 2023)Piers Norris Turner, ‘The Arguments of On Liberty: Mill’s Institutional Designs’ (Nineteenth-Century Prose 47 (1), 2020)Piers Norris Turner et al (eds.), John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, On Liberty with Related Writings (Hackett Publishing, forthcoming 2026)Mark Philp (ed.), John Stuart Mill: Autobiography (Oxford University Press, 2018)Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen (eds.), John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and other Essays (Oxford University Press, 2015)Frederick Rosen, Mill (Oxford University Press, 2013)Alan Ryan, The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Palgrave MacMillan, 1998)Ben Saunders, ‘Reformulating Mill’s Harm Principle’ (Mind 125/500, 2016)John Skorupski, Why Read Mill Today? (Routledge, 2006)William Stafford, John Stuart Mill (Red Globe Press, 1998)C. L. Ten (ed.), Mill: On Liberty: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2008)Nadia Urbinati and Alex Zakaras (eds.), John Stuart Mill’s Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge University Press, 2007) In Our Time is a BBC Studios production

On Liberty

<description>&lt;p&gt;Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Barbour's epic poem The Brus, or Bruce, which he wrote c1375. The Brus is the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots and the only source of many of the stories of King Robert I of Scotland (1274-1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce, and his victory over the English at Bannockburn in 1314. In almost 14,000 lines of rhyming couplets, Barbour distilled the aspects of the Bruce’s history most relevant for his own time under Robert II (1316-1390), the Bruce's grandson and the first of the Stewart kings, when the mood was for a new war against England after decades of military disasters. Barbour’s battle scenes are meant to stir in the name of freedom, and the effect of the whole is to assert Scotland as the rightful equal of any power in Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rhiannon Purdie
Professor of English and Older Scots at the University of St Andrews&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Steve Boardman
Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Brown
Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Producer: Simon Tillotson&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading list:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Barbour (ed. A.A.M. Duncan), The Bruce (Canongate Classics, 2007)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;G.W.S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 1988)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Boardman, The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III (Tuckwell Press, 1996)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Steve Boardman and Susan Foran (eds.), Barbour's Bruce and its Cultural Contexts: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland (D.S. Brewer, 2015)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Brown, Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles, 1280-1460 (Routledge, 2013)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Brown, The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371 (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thomas Owen Clancy and Murray Pittock, Ian Brown and Susan Manning (eds.), The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Vol. 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707), (Edinburgh University Press 2006)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robert Crawford, Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang and Samantha Zacher (eds.), A Companion to British Literature: Vol 1, Medieval Literature, 700-1450 (John Wiley &amp;amp; Sons, 2014), especially 'Before the Makars: Older Scots literature under the early Stewart Kings' by Rhiannon Purdie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colm McNamee, The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland 1306-1328 (Tuckwell Press, 2001)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Penman, Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots (Yale University Press, 2014)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Barbour's epic poem The Brus, or Bruce, which he wrote c1375. The Brus is the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots and the only source of many of the stories of King Robert I of Scotland (1274-1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce, and his victory over the English at Bannockburn in 1314. In almost 14,000 lines of rhyming couplets, Barbour distilled the aspects of the Bruce’s history most relevant for his own time under Robert II (1316-1390), the Bruce's grandson and the first of the Stewart kings, when the mood was for a new war against England after decades of military disasters. Barbour’s battle scenes are meant to stir in the name of freedom, and the effect of the whole is to assert Scotland as the rightful equal of any power in Europe.WithRhiannon Purdie
Professor of English and Older Scots at the University of St AndrewsSteve Boardman
Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of EdinburghAndMichael Brown
Professor of Scottish History at the University of St AndrewsProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:John Barbour (ed. A.A.M. Duncan), The Bruce (Canongate Classics, 2007)G.W.S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 1988)Stephen Boardman, The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III (Tuckwell Press, 1996)Steve Boardman and Susan Foran (eds.), Barbour's Bruce and its Cultural Contexts: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland (D.S. Brewer, 2015)Michael Brown, Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles, 1280-1460 (Routledge, 2013)Michael Brown, The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371 (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)Thomas Owen Clancy and Murray Pittock, Ian Brown and Susan Manning (eds.), The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Vol. 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707), (Edinburgh University Press 2006)Robert Crawford, Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang and Samantha Zacher (eds.), A Companion to British Literature: Vol 1, Medieval Literature, 700-1450 (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2014), especially 'Before the Makars: Older Scots literature under the early Stewart Kings' by Rhiannon PurdieColm McNamee, The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland 1306-1328 (Tuckwell Press, 2001)Michael Penman, Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots (Yale University Press, 2014)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio ProductionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

Barbour's 'Brus'

<description>&lt;p&gt;In 1897, Gustav Klimt led a group of radical artists to break free from the cultural establishment of Vienna and found a movement that became known as the Vienna Secession. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the vibrant atmosphere of coffee houses, Freudian psychoanalysis and the music of Wagner and Mahler, the Secession sought to bring together fine art and music with applied arts such as architecture and design. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movement was characterized by Klimt’s stylised paintings, richly decorated with gold leaf, and the art nouveau buildings that began to appear in the city, most notably the Secession Building, which housed influential exhibitions of avant-garde art and was a prototype of the modern art gallery. The Secessionists themselves were pioneers in their philosophy and way of life, aiming to immerse audiences in unified artistic experiences that brought together visual arts, design, and architecture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; With:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Berry, Professor of Music and Intellectual History at Royal Holloway, University of London&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leslie Topp, Professor Emerita in History of Architecture at Birkbeck, University of London&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Diane Silverthorne, art historian and 'Vienna 1900' scholar&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Producer: Eliane Glaser&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading list:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Berry, Arnold Schoenberg: Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, 2018)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gemma Blackshaw, Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 (National Gallery Company, 2013)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Clegg, Art, Design and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920 (Yale University Press, 2006)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (Yale University Press, 2023)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Downes, Gustav Mahler (Reaktion Books, 2025)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peter Gay, Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture (Oxford University Press, 1979)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag Gronberg, Vienna: City of Modernity, 1890-1914 (Peter Lang, 2007)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allan S. Janik and Hans Veigl, Wittgenstein in Vienna: A Biographical Excursion Through the City and its History (Springer/Wien, 1998)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jill Lloyd and Christian Witt-Dörring (eds.), Vienna 1900: Style and Identity (Hirmer Verlag, 2011)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;William J. McGrath, Dionysian Art and Populist Politics in Austria (Yale University Press, 1974)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tobias Natter and Christoph Grunenberg (eds.), Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life (Tate, 2008)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carl E. Schorske, Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Vintage, 1979)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elana Shapira, Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Brandeis University Press, 2016)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Diane V Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds and Megan Brandow-Faller, Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902-1911 (Letterform Archive, 2023)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edward Timms, Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture &amp;amp; Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna (Yale University Press, 1989)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leslie Topp, Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Cambridge University Press, 2004)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their Contemporaries (4th ed., Phaidon, 2015)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.), Vienna 1900: Birth of Modernism (Walther &amp;amp; Franz König, 2019)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.), Masterpieces from the Leopold Museum (Walther &amp;amp; Franz König)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (University of Nebraska Press, 1964)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Vienna Secession.

In 1897, Gustav Klimt led a group of radical artists to break free from the cultural establishment of Vienna and found a movement that became known as the Vienna Secession. In the vibrant atmosphere of coffee houses, Freudian psychoanalysis and the music of Wagner and Mahler, the Secession sought to bring together fine art and music with applied arts such as architecture and design. The movement was characterized by Klimt’s stylised paintings, richly decorated with gold leaf, and the art nouveau buildings that began to appear in the city, most notably the Secession Building, which housed influential exhibitions of avant-garde art and was a prototype of the modern art gallery. The Secessionists themselves were pioneers in their philosophy and way of life, aiming to immerse audiences in unified artistic experiences that brought together visual arts, design, and architecture. With:Mark Berry, Professor of Music and Intellectual History at Royal Holloway, University of LondonLeslie Topp, Professor Emerita in History of Architecture at Birkbeck, University of LondonAndDiane Silverthorne, art historian and 'Vienna 1900' scholarProducer: Eliane GlaserReading list:Mark Berry, Arnold Schoenberg: Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, 2018)Gemma Blackshaw, Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 (National Gallery Company, 2013)Elizabeth Clegg, Art, Design and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920 (Yale University Press, 2006)Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (Yale University Press, 2023)Stephen Downes, Gustav Mahler (Reaktion Books, 2025)Peter Gay, Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture (Oxford University Press, 1979)Tag Gronberg, Vienna: City of Modernity, 1890-1914 (Peter Lang, 2007)Allan S. Janik and Hans Veigl, Wittgenstein in Vienna: A Biographical Excursion Through the City and its History (Springer/Wien, 1998)Jill Lloyd and Christian Witt-Dörring (eds.), Vienna 1900: Style and Identity (Hirmer Verlag, 2011)William J. McGrath, Dionysian Art and Populist Politics in Austria (Yale University Press, 1974)Tobias Natter and Christoph Grunenberg (eds.), Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life (Tate, 2008)Carl E. Schorske, Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Vintage, 1979)Elana Shapira, Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Brandeis University Press, 2016)Diane V Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds and Megan Brandow-Faller, Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902-1911 (Letterform Archive, 2023)Edward Timms, Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture &amp; Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna (Yale University Press, 1989)Leslie Topp, Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Cambridge University Press, 2004)Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their Contemporaries (4th ed., Phaidon, 2015)Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.), Vienna 1900: Birth of Modernism (Walther &amp; Franz König, 2019)Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.), Masterpieces from the Leopold Museum (Walther &amp; Franz König)Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (University of Nebraska Press, 1964)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio ProductionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

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