The Bloomsbury Group (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Jane Goldman and comedian Suzi Ruffell as he travels back a century to1920s London to learn all about the members of the Bloomsbury Group. A collection of intellectuals and artists active in London in the early 20th Century, the Bloomsbury Group included such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. From their origins at the University of Cambridge to their bohemian lifestyle in London in the 1910s and 20s, and taking in their political work, artistic output, and boundary-pushing relationships, this episode explores the lives, loves and cultural impact of Bloomsbury Group members.

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Research by: Madeleine Bracey, Andrew Himmelberg, and Josh Rice Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse

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0:42.0	Hello and welcome to you're dead to me the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history
0:46.6	seriously my name is Greg Jenner I'm a public historian author and broadcaster and
0:50.6	for our 100th episode hoor, party poppers in the air.
0:54.0	We are firing up the You Dead to Me time machine
0:57.0	and traveling back a hundred years to learn all about some extraordinary intellectuals
1:01.0	and creatives, the Bloomsbury Group.
1:03.4	And joining us for our very own Yordet to me centenary are two very special guests.
1:08.6	In History Corner, she's a poet and academic at the University of Glasgow, where she's a reader in English literature.
1:13.7	She's an expert on the Life and Literature of Virginia Wolf and his general editor of the
1:17.8	Cambridge University Press Edition of Wolf's works.
1:20.3	It's Dr. Jane Goldman. Welcome, Jane.
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