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Melvyn Bragg explores the rise of mass culture in the twentieth century, and how it affected our understanding of what culture is and what it's for. Published on January 3, 2013.

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Welcome to the new series, The Value of Culture Published on December 18, 2012.

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Melvyn Bragg presents the first in a series of programmes examining the idea of culture and its evolution over the last 150 years. In 1869 the poet and critic Matthew Arnold published Culture and Anarchy, a series of essays in which he argued passionately that culture - 'the best which has been thought and said' - was a powerful force for good. In this first programme Melvyn Bragg visits the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, where Arnold first unveiled his ideas on the subject, and discovers how Arnold's ideas were refined and rejected by later thinkers.

Producer: Thomas Morris. Published on December 31, 2012.

Culture and Anarchy

Melvyn Bragg considers the 150-year history of the Two Cultures debate. In 1959 the novelist C.P. Snow delivered a lecture in Cambridge suggesting that intellectual life had become divided into two separate cultures: the sciences and the humanities. The lecture is still celebrated for the furore it provoked - but Snow was returning to a battleground almost a century old. Melvyn Bragg visits the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, scene of many of modern science's greatest triumphs, to put the Two Cultures debate in its historical context - and Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, reveals the influence the Two Cultures debate had on his development as a scientist.

Producer: Thomas Morris. Published on January 2, 2013.

Two Cultures

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the meaning and value of culture in the twenty-first century. In a programme recorded in front of an audience at Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society, Melvyn and the panel consider whether Matthew Arnold's assessment of culture as 'the great help out of our present difficulties' still has any relevance, almost 150 years after it was written.

With:

Sir Christopher Frayling
Former Rector of the Royal College of Art and Chair of Arts Council England

Tiffany Jenkins
Sociologist and cultural commentator

Matt Ridley
Scientist and writer

Producer: Thomas Morris. Published on January 4, 2013.

What's the Value of Culture Today?

Authors Juliet Grames (The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna) and Catherine Chung (The Tenth Muse) discuss infusing family history into their work, how pregnancy changed their writing, and more. Then they play a new game called Spoiler Alerts.

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We also introduce a new segment from producer Fametta Sawyer, called Word Nerd.

Finally, we present you with clips from the audiobooks of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and The Tenth Muse!

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S2E6: Life Becomes Art (with Juliet Grames and Catherine Chung)

Secrets. Lies. A man. There's always a man. And there's always a truth to be told.
 

I'm Hailey Anne Monroe. I’m 28 years old. An artist, who found her muse on the canvas because I wasn’t allowed to have friends or even keep a journal. And yes, if you haven’t guessed by now, I’m that Hailey Anne Monroe, daughter to Thomas Frank Monroe, the man who was a half-percentage point from becoming president of the United States. If you were able to ask him, he’d probably tell you that I was the half point. But you can’t ask him, and he can’t tell you. He’s dead. They’re all dead and now I can speak.

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The Value of Culture

Melvyn Bragg explores the history of the idea of culture, and its value today.

What's the Value of Culture Today?

The Value of Culture

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