In Our Time

Misha Glenny hosts a discussion on Utopia by Sir Thomas More, who served as Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII. Depicting a fictional island nation and its religious, social and political customs, Utopia also satirised 16th-century European society. It was first published in Latin in 1516, before the publication of an English translation in 1551. With Laura Ashe, Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford, Joanne Paul, Honorary Associate Professor in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex and Cathy Shrank, Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature at Sheffield University.