BBC Radio 4, 'In Our Time': Episode on Bertolt Brecht

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In April 2024, I appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, alongside David Barnett and Tom Kuhn, in a discussion chaired by Melvyn Bragg.

Period22 Apr 2024

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Media contributions

  • TitleBBC Radio 4, In Our Time
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletBBC
    Media typeRadio
    Duration/Length/Size60 minutes
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date22/04/24
    Description

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest European playwrights of the twentieth century. The aim of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was to make the familiar ‘strange’: with plays such as Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle he wanted his audience not to sit back but to engage, observe and discover the contradictions in life, and act on what they learnt. He developed this approach in turbulent times, from Weimar Germany to the rise of the Nazis, to exile in Scandinavia and America and then post-war life in East Berlin, and he has since inspired dramatists around the world.

    With

    Laura Bradley
    Professor of German and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh

    David Barnett
    Professor of Theatre at the University of York

    And

    Tom Kuhn
    Professor of Twentieth Century German Literature, Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh's College, University of Oxford

    Producer: Simon Tillotson
    In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio production

    Producer/AuthorMelvyn Bragg / Simon Tillotson
    PersonsLaura Bradley
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Keywords

  • Brecht
  • Theatre
  • Berliner Ensemble