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Time Canvasses - Morton Feldman and Abstract Expressionism
How friendship with Philip Guston and Mark Rothko took American music in new directions
Tuner of the World
A portrait of pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape maestro R Murray Schafer.
Supply Lines
Aidan Tulloch reimagines the journey an item goes on in the age of the 24/7 supply chain.
New Generation Thinkers: The Perfect Balance
Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri searches for different perspectives on the idea of balance.
The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch
New arts feature exploring the brief but brilliant career of writer Denton Welch.
The Black Cantor
The story of a Black tenor who sang Jewish music in America in the early 20th century
Sunday Feature - Shakespeare's Brum Ting
Islam Issa celebrates Birmingham's unique public ownership of Shakespeare's first Folio.
X-Ray Vision: Rudolph Fisher in Harlem
Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American life
Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of playwright, poet and essayist Heinrich Heine.
Government Song Woman
Rhiannon Giddens investigates the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell.
Tutu - A Portrait of Nigeria
Chibundu Onuzo tells the fascinating story of ‘Africa’s Mona Lisa’ and artist Ben Enwonwu
O Sole Mio
On the streets of Naples, Joanna Robertson celebrates the city's unique musical tradition
Metal City
How has metalworking affected the culture of Birmingham over hundreds of years?
Rebel Sounds: Musical Resistance in Barbados
Peter Brathwaite discovers the music of his black enslaved & white slave-owning ancestors
Yiddish Glory
Musician Alice Zawadzki explores long-lost Yiddish songs from World War II
Scott Ross - Harpsichord Rebel
Phil Hebblethwaite traces the complex life of an early music maverick.
Unlocking Anne
Poet Clare Pollard introduced us to forgotten female sonneteer, Anne Lock.
What Walls Hold
Charles Dickens’ life was shaped by an extraordinary house. Docudrama with Alex Jennings.
Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar
The story of Shostakovich's Symphony No 13 and the trailblazing poem which inspired it
Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey
Rory Stewart in search of Basil Bunting’s neglected masterpiece about love, loss and time
Sunday Feature: Florence Price’s Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship
The remarkable female musicians and activists who helped Florence Price's music to thrive
Tchaikovsky's Island of Inspiration
How a trip to a remote island monastery inspired Pyotr Tchaikovsky's First Symphony
Then there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the week
How famous German avant-garde composer Stockhausen wrote an opera for each day of the week
Even more Kershaw Tapes
Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels.
More Kershaw Tapes
Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels.
New Generation Thinker short feature: Hilltop Histories
Archaeologist Seren Griffiths tells the multiple stories of a Sandstone ridge in Cheshire
NGT The Balcony
Dr Islam Issa celebrates the importance of Balconies, from Cairo to the Capulet's garden.
The Apple and the Tree
Carlo Gébler, son of Edna O’Brien, asks why the children of writers often become writers
Sunday Feature - Dissecting Beethoven
An exploration of Beethoven’s music through the body that gave him so much trouble.
Sunday Feature: The Fake Poet
Why does the image of the forlorn and abandoned poet Thomas Chatterton haunt us today?
The Silence of My Pain
Hannah French explores a hidden disability for many musicians: pain.
New Generation Thinker short Feature: COVID and The Black Death, an imperfect fit.
Medievalist Dr Seb Falk questions the comparisons between COVID19 and The Black Death.
Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan
How experimental composer John Cage came to write his infamous silent piece, 4’33”
The Crankiness of C.W.Daniel
New Generation Thinker Elsa Richardson on the radical 20th century publisher C.W.Daniel.
The Queen Of Technicolor
Maureen O’Hara’s journey from Dublin's suburbs to star of the Golden Age.
The East Speaks Back
We are used to getting a worldview from the west, but what did the east make of us?
Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before
David Bramwell with actors whose lives were transformed by director Ken Campbell.
Glitter and Villainy
Daisy Black, Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, investigates the camp villain in history.
Rewiring Raymond Scott
Ken Hollings assesses the legacy of the American electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.
Poles Apart
The unknown tale of cold war communist Poland’s love affair with electronic music
The Hidden Reservoir
Carlo Gebler on the role of art in remembrance and reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Power Plays
How theatre challenged the East German government - but was swept aside as communism fell
Al Andalus - The Legacy
Andrew Hussey journeys through Andalusia searching for the legacy of Muslim Spain
Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall
Actor Lily Cole plays Elizabeth Siddall who climbs out of her grave to tell her story.
Literary Pursuits: Lord of the Flies
Golding's classic novel was saved from being rejected by Faber by the luckiest chance.
Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR
Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany
Sir Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone
Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates Isaac Newton's more obscure studies in Alchemy.
A Unicorn Quest
Hetta Howes sets off to find the unicorn of myth in 21st century Britain.
Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip
300 years since Robinson Crusoe was published, Emma Smith traces it across the centuries
Alexander Korda: Producer, Director, Exile, Spy
Matthew Sweet unearths the film-maker Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.
WATERLOG
Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of the American poet John Ashbery
Hotel Genius
Sally Marlow uncovers the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study
The Deluxe Edition
Dr Seán Williams takes a first class trip through the enduring contradictions of luxury.
Jazz Japan
An exploration of the rich and surprising history of jazz in Japan.
A History of the Tongue
A succulent & mouth watering portrait of one of the least talked about organs of the body.
Literary Pursuits: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind how great works of literature were written.
Sunday Feature: Into the Forest - The Pine Tree
The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas day - the Pine tree.
Harlem on Fire
Afua Hirsch goes on the search of a long-lost masterpiece from the Harlem Renaissance
The Kristapurana
Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Two features by R3 New Generation Thinkers. Dr Simon Beard and Dr Islam Issa
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck
Two Features by R3 New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck.
Inside Stories
Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation
Forests of The Imagination
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.
A Portrait of Parry
Simon Heffer argues for a new understanding of Sir Hubert Parry
Sunday Feature: A Life in Study: Robert Lowell
Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell.
Ken Campbell As Never Heard Before
Actors Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones and Sylvester McCoy join David Bramwell to celebrate Ken
From the Ashes
Allan Little looks at arts festivals started in the aftermath of World War Two
Monteverdi's Women
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
The Killers
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.
v. is for Tony
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley profiles the unique poet. (R)
I Know an Island - RM Lockley
Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.
In Search of Yves Klein
Liliane Lijn explores the work of postwar French artist Yves Klein.
Tony Harrison's Prague Spring
How one of Britain's best known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
Binary and Beyond: part two
Emma Smith on how coverage of gender in the arts might help us understand today's debate
Binary and Beyond Part 1
Might explorations of gender in great art of the past help illuminate today's issues?
The Summer Forest
Once upon a time, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough woke up in the summer forest.
David Attenborough - World Music Collector
David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again
Japan's Never Ending War
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
Oh Dr Kinsey Look What You've Done to Me
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
Japan's Never-Ending War
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two through movies.
Japan's Never-Ending War
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
Sunday Feature: Supernatural Japan
An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.
Exit Burbage - The Man Who Created Hamlet
Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's virtually unknown - why?
Too Many Artists
Paul Morley asks "Can there be too many artists in the world?"
Sunday Feature - Blind, Black and Blue
Why were so many of the early blues musicians in America's Deep South blind?
Sunday Feature - Concerto: The One and the Many
Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.
Literary Pursuits - Jekyll and Hyde
Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of R.L. Stevenson's horror classic
The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled
Robert Worby on how post-war German radio was conscripted to fight the cultural cold war.
SUNDAY FEATURE THE 40 DAYS OF MUSA DAGH
Franz Werfel's 1933 novel The 40 Days of Musa Dagh was written as remembrance & warning.
New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson
New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson
Resurrecting Mayakovsky
Ian Sansom attempts to resurrect the spirit of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
Sunday Feature: Emigranti - 1917 Revisited
How do Russia's latest cultural emigres feel about leaving their homeland?
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Features from two New Generation Thinkers on Afrofuturism and German Lieder
A Flapper's Guide to the Opera
Dr Alexandra Wilson steps into the shoes of a flapper for a journey back to 1920s London.
Sunday Feature: John Tusa's Opera Journey
John Tusa revisits the three provincial German towns where he first discovered opera
Sunday Feature: Every County in the State of California
A radio road movie with Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California, reading in every county.
Sunday Feature: The Killers
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Ernest Hemingway’s explosive short story.
Edinburgh 70: Nothing Short of a Miracle
Jim Naughtie reflects on the origins of the Edinburgh Festival.
Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice
Forster's gay love story was a forbidden book, unpublished until his death.
Canada 150: Geeking Glenn Gould
James Rhodes goes in hunt of his boyhood hero: Candian pianist Glenn Gould.
Sunday Feature: Monteverdi's Women
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution. Reformation 500
Germany's celebrating 500 years since the Reformation - how did it shape German culture?
A Square Dance in Heaven
The Rev Lucy Winkett goes on the trail of Martin Luther's musical reformation.
v. is for Tony
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.
Sunday Feature: I Know an Island
Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley
The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes
Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?
Opera Across the Waves
Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.
Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit
Kevin Le Gendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane
Sunday Feature: Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle
The controversial French composer Boulez made three life-changing trips to South America.
Music on the Brink of Destruction
In the Nazi camps and ghettos a vast range of music was created
Apocalypse How
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on how different cultures have viewed the end of the world
Sunday Feature:Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution
Christian Weikop, examines Kandinsky's Russian roots.
Breaking Free: Freud versus Music
Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music
David Attenborough - World Music Collector
David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again
Sunday Feature: Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?
Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life ...
SUNDAY FEATURE: NEW GENERATION THINKERS
The lost Modernist poet Hope Mirlees & the fate of North Africa's Jews during WW 2.
New Generation Thinkers
1. Euphemism and Eroticism in Scottish Gaelic Songs. 2.Reappraising Nollekens.
The secrets of the Music Reading Panel
What was the BBC's panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.
Sunday Feature: Philip French and the Critical Ear
Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French
The Envy of the World: Rudely Truncated
Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996
The Envy of the World: No Fixed Points
Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.
Dawn on the Somme
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part
Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli
Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery.
An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936
Ian McMillan on the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936,that changed everything
Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala
Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century
Literary Pursuits: Dubliners
Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.
Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion
Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written.
Sunday Feature: Arnold Wesker
Arnold Wesker, who died in April of this year,looking back at his life and career.
Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip
Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet
Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100
Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.
Brainwash Culture
If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick
The Venice Ghetto
Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.
Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide
Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.
South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower
Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight
Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail
Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Sarah Dillon goes on the hunt for the story behind how Great Expectations was written.
Northern Lights: True Norse
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.
Above Sixty, Below Zero
Lesley Riddoch examines the changing relationship between man and nature in the North.
Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain
New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter & The Life and Life of Richard Baxter
The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter
Hardy and the Animals and Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism?
Alasdair Cochrane on Thomas Hardy and animals; Will Abberley on evolutionary psychology.
This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France
Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.
How Celtic are We?
Cultural historian Dai Smith interrogates the Celtic myth.
Why Music?
Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.
Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60
Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making & meanings of Rebel Without a Cause
Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death?
Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing
Mary King investigates how advances in our anatomy knowledge are changing the way we sing
Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of W B Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
Sunday Feature: Left-Handed Liberty
Amidst the 800 year celebrations for Magna Carta, Andrew Dickson hears about one of to...
John Berger - About Song and Laughter
Sukhdev Sandhu introduces a rare radio-minded feature by the celebrated critic, and...
Sunday Feature: In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna
Using diaries and memoirs Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the Congress of Vienna...
Sunday Feature: A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
The leading German writer Uwe Johnson lived in Sheerness from 1974 until his death in...
Sunday Feature Doing Goya Justice The Curators Story
Xavier Bray is a curator on a nail-biting journey to put together the greatest of by...
Sunday Feature: Memoirs of the Spacewomen
Matthew Sweet delves into the science fiction futures of Naomi Mitchison, Rose and...
Sunday Feature: From Convent to Concert Hall
Dr Kate Kennedy appraises four female string players from different eras and who were...
Sunday Feature: The Day of the Locust
Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's great 1938 Hollywood novel The Day...
Sunday Feature: Cuba Clasica
Andrew McGregor visits Havana to investigate Cuba's classical music scene today.
Sunday Feature: Eric Ravilious: Chalk & Ice
Eric Ravilious is considered one of the best watercolourists of the twentieth century.
Sunday Feature: Palace of Shame
It's a story of loot, revenge and devastated beauty that looms over British-Chinese...
Sunday Feature: Beautiful Death
Stephen Johnson connects Mahler's beliefs about death to Viennese funeral customs, and...
Andy Warhol's Factory Friends
Candy Darling and Edie Sedgwick are now the stuff of legend, but many of those with of...
Sunday Feature: Thom Gunn - Appropriate Measures
Author Colm Tóibín profiles the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, self-professed lover...
Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties
Matthew is joined by historians and performers to explore World War 1 popular culture...
Sunday Feature: The Supernatural North
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural...
Sunday Feature: The Fundamentalist Queen
Samira Ahmed explores the extraordinary rise and fall of the Lady Protectress wife of...
Sunday Feature: A Cultural History of the Plague
Laura Ashe tells the story of the Black Death and discovers how plague changed our and...
Sunday Feature: In the Shadow of the Tower
Andrew Hussey travels across Paris to understand how the Eiffel Tower, and the huge to...
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Christopher Harding explores the influence of Freud in India, China and Japan, and on...
Sunday Feature: God and the Great War
Frank Cottrell Boyce on the impact of the First World War on religion at home and at...
Kitty Marion and The Poetry of Science
Gregory Tate explores why many C19th scientists wrote poetry, as do several today.
Enter the Dragon Chinese Theatre in the 21st century
Rana Mitter travels to Beijing to explore the recent flourishing of theatre in China...
Sunday Feature: Who Was Richard Strauss?
Richard Strauss's works are staples of both concert hall and opera house, and yet is...
Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony
In the final programme in the series Petroc Trelawny measures the impact and of in and...
Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony
The second programme in Petroc Trelawny’s series looking at the new Global passion...
Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music- A New World Symphony
Petroc Trelawny presents a three part Sunday Feature series looking at the way Western...
I Have Been Here Before
Francis Spufford explores how An Experiment with Time, written by former soldier and J...
The Devastation of British Art
Diarmaid MacCulloch tells the story of iconoclasm during the English Reformation.
How Did Scotland's Artists Turn Nationalist
Scotland goes to the polls on the 18th September to decide its constitutional future.
June 22: Bannockburn Begins
Novelist Louise Welsh explores some of the meanings, ancient and modern, of the battle...
Sunday Feature: Dennis Potter
The playwright Dennis Potter died twenty years ago. Matthew Sweet reassesses the of of...
Sonic Art Boom
Dan Jones, composer and sound designer, considers why it has taken so long for Sound a...
Sunday Feature: Dylan Thomas the Radio Poet
Writer Rachel Trezise - the first winner of the annual Dylan Thomas Prize - tells the...
Sunday Feature: Educating Isaac
Could your child compose like Mozart? While searching for a creative and fun way to a...
Sunday Feature:Merchant Ivory
Style, flair, individuality, ideas... and stars. The filmic output of the remarkable...
Sunday Feature: Music and the Jews (3/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the last of three programmes examining the complex between...
Music and the Jews (2/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the second of three programmes examining the complex between...
Music and the Jews (1/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the first programme in a three-part series examining the and...
Shanghai World City Redux
Rana Mitter reveals how Shanghai today is forging its identity as an ultramodern city...
Somme
Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river whose character belies its violent...
Anything But Banal - the Fascination of the Villain
Paul Allen explores the allure of evil through great villains, from Hollywood baddies...
15th December: Ideas of Germany
Anne McElvoy finds out how those active in Germany's cultural world see the identity...
The Invisible Theatre
Tom Service and others explore the history of the festival theatre in Bayreuth that of...
Sunday Feature: 1 December 2013 - Ken Adam Profile
Matthew Sweet meets Ken Adam, the 92-year-old designer of iconic sets from Dr No and...
Albert Camus: Inside the Outsider
Professor Hussey celebrates the life, work and tragic death of literature's enigmatic...
Sunday Feature - Production Line Living
How has the factory production line changed us? AL Kennedy finds out.
Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood
Once upon a time Hollywood composers were classically schooled European maestros.
Significant Others ep 2
The thousand-year-old story of the Jewish presence in Poland was all but ended by the...
Significant Others 1
The story of the Jewish presence in Poland
Sunday Feature - Stirring Up A Revolution
Author and journalist Tarek Osman returns to the Middle East to explore how the of the...
Sunday Feature - Wagner: Making a National Hero
As part of Wagner 200, Stephen Johnson explores the worlds of Wagner's heroes, from to...
Jan Morris, Travels Round My House
Writer Anthony Sattin visits Jan Morris's Welsh home on the 60th anniversary of the of...
Sunday Feature - Piano's Music Boxes
Renzo Piano is the architect behind the tallest building in Western Europe, The Shard...
Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (3 of 3)
The Reverend Richard Coles visits Lincoln Cathedral, the focus of Medieval pilgrimage,...
Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (1 of 3)
In this first of three programmes, Richard explores what exactly is meant by sin, and...
Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (2 of 3)
The Reverand Richard Coles explores notions of temptation and its part in contemporary...
Margaret are you Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping
Throughout our cultural history, tears have been intimately connected with the arts,...
Modernism Redux
Will Self broadcasts an imaginary archive of modernist radio and discusses the of...
A Brief History of Being Cold
Sunday Feature: Alexandra Harris presents a cultural history of the cold.S.
Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon
In 1812 Napoleon led his army to Moscow. In War and Peace Tolstoy gave his account of...
The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits 1: Vortigern
Barry Cunliffe on the king whom history has often held responsible for inviting in the...
Sunday Feature: After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California
Californian poetry found fame with The Beats in the 1950s. Dana Gioia reveals since -...
Piano Tales - A Social History of the Piano
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb explores the development and enduring appeal of the...
Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past
Sunday Feature: Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past. Christine Finn excavates clues...
Dr Adam Smith on Britain in the American Civil War
The American Civil War: Blockade Runners and Black Minstrels. What did Britain do in...
Dr Adam Smith on the dividing lines of the American Civil War
The American Civil War: Dividing Lines. Historian Adam Smith visits contemporary to...
Dr Adam Smith on the War of the North in America
The American Civil War: The War of the North. Dr Adam Smith travels from Lincoln's to...
Dr Adam Smith on the War of the South in America
The American Civil War: The War of the South. Dr Adam Smith travels to Richmond, the...
Historian Tristram Hunt on anti-imperialism.
Great British Ideas:J.A. Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism. Historian Tristram Hunt a...
Historian Tristram Hunt on England and Ireland in the 1840’s.
Great British Ideas: Young England and Young Ireland. Tristram Hunt traces the curious...
Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus
Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of...
George Reynolds - writer and contemporary of Dickens
Sunday Feature: The Other Dickens. Laurence Scott explores the work and the life of of...
Geneticist Steve Jones investigates the science of crowds
Sunday Feature: Crowd Psychology. From the summer riots last year to the Olympics and...
Andrew Graham Yooll examines Argentine identity
Sunday Feature: Malvinas Madness. Andrew Graham Yooll, former editor of the Buenos and...
Phoenix Rising - The Story of Coventry Cathedral
Giles Fraser examines the history, ministry and artistic legacy of Coventry Cathedral...
Wesker at 80
Sunday Feature: As Arnold Wesker celebrates his 80th birthday Matthew Sweet looks back...
Europe - the Art of Austerity
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb talks to Anne Enright and Justin Cartwright about to...
The Archbishop of Canterbury on poet Vernon Watkins
Sunday Feature: Swansea's Other Poet. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.