Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we've actually letters and reports and how she's saying, I need more money to do this job.
Rosemary, what was the state of the theatre when Ben began to write?
Did she write, did she say, why did she begin to write for the stage?
Because it had been closed down in 1642.
Exactly.
It opened up again, but only two theatres compared with the massive theatres there were in, as it were, Shakespeare and post-Shakespeare in the world.
And it was very different.
Yeah, but how did the theatre came back as a different thing?
What different thing was it?
Yeah, but it's to do with women can play women.
Is it true that the women are now legitimately allowed to go to the theatre for the first time?
Or had they gone before?
When you say she decided to go to the theatre to make a living, it was very risky.
What sort of living did she make in the beginning?
Clara Burditch, were there other women writing plays at the time?
She was the most successful, but were there others around?
Can you give us an overview of the sort of plays that Aphra Behn was writing?
And she's in a very, you've mentioned, Dryden has been mentioned, but there's also Witchley around and Etheridge around.
And Ravenscroft and so on.
So she's in with a lot of very successful men.
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