Melvyn Bragg

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1,061 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2d ago

Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In Our Time · Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Can I bring Sushi back into the equation?

Japan and China were at war.

What did she do there?

Actually

How did she react to that?

For

seems rather dramatic, uh

And it was rather dramatic, did it work?

Yeah, and did d did she see herself as a traditionalist or a reformer?

Young when you to follow that?

Ron, can you tell listeners about the Boxer Rebellion and how she dealt with it?

Young wine.

How do we how do you assess that now?

Finally, Rana, what would your your war view be?

What of our legacy?

Well, thank you all very much.

Thanks to Ronald Poe, Yang Wen Zhang and Rana Mitter.

And to our studio engineer Bob Nittles next week.

We go back to the fourteenth century and a political theorist seen as a founder of modern democracy and an inspiration for the Reformation.

That's Marcilius of Padua.

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