In Our Time is a live BBC talk show radio series and podcast that explores a wide variety of historical topics through interviews with academics and scholars. It is presented by Melvyn Bragg and is broadcast weekly throughout the year. It features topics in history, philosophy, psychology, economics, and a variety of other disciplines.
In this two-hour special event, filmed at Bafta, Melvyn Bragg is joined by some of British television's key figures from the last 60 years to look at the extraordinary impact British television has made since its first great unifying moment - the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Through a series of short, archive-based films and studio discussion, Bragg and his guests ...
A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of actor/director Laurence Olivier.
梅尔文·布拉格 (Melvyn Bragg) 带你走遍大不列颠,了解英语的冒险历程——公元前500年的一门小众日耳曼方言,到底是如何一步步成长为当今毋庸置疑的世界语言。他将根据不同词语被引进英语的大致时期来向我们讲解它们的出处和拼写。
1、语言的诞生 (Birth of a Language)
2、不登大雅之堂 (English Goes Underground)
3、圣经语言之争 (The Battle for the Language of the Bible)
4、此世、此国、此英 (This Earth, This Realm, This England)
5、英语在美洲 (English in America)
6、谈吐得体 (Speaking Proper)
7、帝国的语言 (The Language of Empire)
8、南腔北调皆...
Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English. Melvyn reveals the story of a man whose life and legacy have been hidden from history but whose impact on Christianity in Britain and on the English language endures today. His radical translation of the Bible into English made him a profound threat to the authority ...
The film traces Orwell's life during 1936 when he spent time in the depressed north of England, married, set off for the Spanish Civil War and completed his book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', which marked his beginnings as a political author.