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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Let's just be more specific.
She isn't against marriage.
She's against young women being unhappily contracted to old men.
I think unequal marriages, yes.
But come back to the... Sorry, Jan, but can I just pursue this one more time?
But the idea of a female rake, which I mentioned earlier, which I've seen in the notes of one or two of you, was not something you wanted to pursue, was not something she wanted to pursue?
No.
And then we're living in a time of at least an acquaintance, perhaps even a friend of hers, Nell Gwynn, who was very open about her status.
Claire Burdidge.
She was a very strong supporter of the Stuart monarchy.
Charles II for 25 years, and then of his brother James, even though he was opposed by a great number of people in the country.
And I think maybe one or two of our listeners might think a very strong Tory monarchist, Tory loyalist, fascinated by the court, dazzled by it really,
And a very strong, can we call her feminist without stepping on everybody's toes?
Can we just use it to be getting on with the feminists, which is more of a slightly different position?
What would you have to say about that?
Did the court repay her devotion to them?
John, you want to come in?
Given James II's Catholicism and her attitude to religion, did that not irk him or was it not at odds with her protestations of loyalty?
Ros, she wrote fiction as well as plays, and her best-known book is Orinoco.
But did she write fiction to make more money?
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