Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's stick, as it were, with a couple in bed for a moment or two.
She had a reputation... Sorry, Jan.
But she had a reputation as a bawdy writer, didn't she, at the time?
What was bawdy about it?
Give us one or two examples.
It is early, but still, never mind, we can get through.
What was thought of as bawdy then?
Can we just... I brought that up partly just to talk about it because it was talked about, but partly because it was that...
aspect of her work, which seemed to, as it were, strike her out of the lists for two centuries.
Her reputation was very high, as you pointed out, Ros.
Eighteen plays, they must have kept wanting more, and the fiction and the poetry, we haven't even got to that.
But she went right up, her reputation went right down.
Why was that, starting with you, Janet?
Why did the people suddenly not like licentiousness?
There's a note in a letter from Walter Scott which summarises this totally.
Yes, it's a wonderful story.
But that's fascinating because she also says, throw them on the fire.
And then she says, but 60 years ago, people like myself, being a woman of gentility, you sit around and read them aloud to each other.
It's a fascinating little vignette of the way taste can change so swiftly.
It is.
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