The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

James Joyce: Ulysses

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous wor

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent

When an anarchist attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, an idea exploded in the mind of Joseph Conrad. This pr

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu

Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life i

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a bird’s-eye view of the political, philosophica

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four per

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf pushed the boundaries of the novel as a tool for psychological inquiry through her experimentation with s

Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author

In 1925 Luigi Pirandello brought his troupe to England as part of a worldwide tour. This program re-creates one day in L

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses t

Franz Kafka: The Trial

A suppressor of his own writings, Franz Kafka even requested that upon his death all his extant works be destroyed—yet

Ten Great Writers: The Seminar

In this lively round-table discussion, moderator Melvyn Bragg; the late writer and critic Anthony Burgess; Professor Geo