Wimpole History Festival: Melvyn Bragg - A Passion for History & Ideas

Friday 21 June 2019
Rathbones Marquee - Wimpole Estate
Melvyn Bragg – award-winning novelist, broadcaster, Labour Peer in the House of Lords, and presenter of the deeply rich and satisfying In Our Time for BBC Radio 4 – brings us his latest novel Heloise and Abelard.

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Told through the eyes of a present-day academic, it’s the story of the infamous love affair that rocked 12th-century France, when a female scholar, Heloise d’Argenteuil, embarked on a passionate relationship with her tutor Peter Abelard. Join Melvyn to hear how ideas and a love of history have been woven together throughout his varied writing and broadcasting career.
 
 
Supported by British Academy
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15:30 - 16:30