In Our Time: Culture

Misha Glenny

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Booking Overview

A long-running culture program where Misha Glenny and academic experts unpack major figures and movements in literature, art, music, and performance—and what they reveal about society. Great for PR outreach targeting arts/humanities thought leaders who can explain cultural impact with historical depth.

Metrics

Episodes: 204

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Misha Glenny - Misha Glenny is the host of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time: Culture. He guides episodes that explore influential moments and creators in popular culture, poetry, music, and the visual arts, drawing on e...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
University academics and established scholars in arts/humanities (art history, literature studies, Romanticism, Shakespeare/early modern; often with professorial titles or senior lecturer roles at UK research universities).
Required Achievements:  
Professor or senior academic appointments at major universities, Published books/edited volumes with academic presses, Recognized expertise in a specific cultural movement/author/work, Scholarly contributions in peer-reviewed or critical editions

Recent Guest Discussions

Stephen Forcer - Dadaism As Text/thought And Theoretical Framing

Ruth Hemus - Dadaism (cultural/linguistic And Visual Dimensions Of The Movement)

Dawn Ades - Dadaism (historical Origins At Cabaret Voltaire; Key Figures And Themes)

Meiko O'Halloran - John Keats And Romantic-era Literary Contexts

Nicholas Roe - John Keats (scholarship And Interpretive Perspectives)

Recent Topics

Literature, Art History, Music, Poetry, Theatre

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
In Our Time: Culture
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Handel's Messiah

May 07, 2026

Misha Glenny and his guests discuss the most famous oratorio of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and his librettist Charles Jennens (1700-1773). For his libretto, Jennens drew from Old and New Testament texts: prophecies about the coming of Jesus, the Messiah, the nativity, the suffering of Christ and his death and the Day of Judgement and redemption for all. Handel's Messiah had its premiere in 1742 in a secular Dublin music hall to great acclaim with a packed audience and Handel continu...

Dadaism

April 16, 2026

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the provocative artistic phenomenon that first startled audiences in 1916 in Zurich. There, at the Cabaret Voltaire at the Holländische Meierei on the Spiegelgasse, Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball and others gathered on a small stage, sometimes dressed in cardboard, often performing nonsense poems. This was the start of Dada, a spirit more than a movement which spread to other cities in Europe during the war. In part the Dadas (as they called themselves) were pro...

John Keats

March 19, 2026

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the short life and lasting works of Keats (1795-1821), who in one year wrote some of the most loved poems in English. Among these are Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on Melancholy. That most productive year began in autumn 1818, when Keats had been stung by some reviews labelling him an uncouth Cockney who should go back to his former work as an apothecary, work he had left for poetry only two years before with the encouragement of enthusiast...

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