All Episodes

Digging for Words

Workplace performance

The crime of creation

Mothers on trial

Land Cinema

The intimacy of radio

Birth Stories

Losing Yourself in Books

A Philosophical Forgery?

Technicolor Wars

Poems of Love and Ageing

Poems of Mayo

Poems of the Troubles

Poems of World War 1

The Early Years

Indonesia's Tin Pan Alley - Tihingan in Bali

Japan's Tin Pan Alley - Ochanomizu in Tokyo

Spain's Tin Pan Alley - Centro, Madrid

Türkiye's Tin Pan Alley - Galip Dede Street in Istanbul

China's Tin Pan Alley - Xinjiekou Street in Beijing

Amber

Serpentine

Aquamarine

Agate

Gold

Mamoru Samuragochi

Joyce Hatto

The Lost Haydn Sonatas

Albinoni's Adagio

Fritz Kreisler

5. Rebecca Toal and Hattie Butterworth

4. Ludwig Quandt

3. Robin Graham

2. Stephen Marquiss

1. Julian Lloyd Webber

Chorus girls in Paris

Esther Inglis's musical self portraits

The Star-Spangled Banner, Jacobins and Abolitionists

Tudor music and politics

Teresa del Riego's suffrage anthem

Don't You Think We're Forever

Couldn't Love You More

Banks of Sicily

Time Has Told Me

How Happy I Am

Elizabeth Elliott

Paul Whittaker OBE

Chisato Minamimura

Nigel Braithwaite

Ruth Montgomery

K2

The Motive and the Cue

The Count of Monte Cristo

Summerfolk

The Scottish Play

Unravelling plainness

What does feminist art mean?

Gas, oil and the Essex blues

Unravelling plainness

Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners

Arteries of tomorrow

The legacy of the laundries

From algorithms to oceans

Call Me Mother

Weird Viking Bodies

Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft

Call Me Mother

How Did They Do That? Magic and Mesmerism

Girls! Girls! Girls! Women in Variety

It's The Animal In Me: Animal Acts in Variety Theatre

Gokkle o’ Geer: Ventriloquists and their Dummies

Singing, Dancing and Having a Laugh: The Backbone of Variety

Christmas Pudding

Pavlova

Crème Brûlée

Summer Pudding

Tapioca

Khadijah Ibrahiim

Ian Duhig

Michelle Scally Clarke

Jeremy Dyson

Malika Booker

5. Return

4. Crossing

The Bison

The Beaver

The Wallabies

The Sea Eagle

The Reindeer

The Flat-Pack Cello

The Shipwrecked Cello

The Auschwitz Cello

The Bee Cello

The Soul of Music

3. Watching

2. Departure

1. Ears

Frida Kahlo's Broken Column

Field of Dreams

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Joan Williams

Philip Roth

Norman Mailer

Amiri Baraka

William Styron

Roy McFarlane on Bilston

R.M. Francis on Wren’s Nest, Dudley

Brendan Hawthorne on Toll End Road, Tipton

Emma Purshouse on St Bart’s Church, Wednesbury.

Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley

Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence

Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes

Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath

Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy

Naomi Alderman on Mary Wollstonecraft

Emilia Lanyer

Mohammed al-Annuri

Roderigo Lopez

Mary Fillis

Chinano 'the Turk'

Manteo

Aura Soltana

John Cabot

John Blanke

Lucy Baynham

Professor Dame Marina Warner on Othello

Sir David Hare on Macbeth

Professor Islam Issa on Julius Caesar

Michelle Terry on As You Like It

Sir Richard Eyre on King Lear

Children of the Waters

Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

A family of witches

Fighting the colour bar

Stupid Victorians

The discordant tale of Thomas Weelkes

Revolutionary free speech

Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

The South African Bloomsberries

WN Herbert

Reasons to Cycle

A Bike Ride

Cycling Apparel

The Cyclist as Overdog and Underdog

My Life on a Bike

Ben Cottam

Claire McGowan

Evie Wyld

Patrick Gale

Prepared Minds

Are we done?

In the Bottom of the Well

Where am I?

The Benefit of Doubt

Shinichi Sawada

Minnie Evans

Cape Malay South African Cuisine

South African Indian Food

Coloured South African Food

Black South African Cuisine

Mary Barnes

White South African Food

Madge Gill

Adolf Wölfli

1000 Coils of Fear

The Heir of Redclyffe

Tales from the Garbage Hills

Iola Leroy

The Paradise Crater

A Dying Breed

The Rebels

Class and the Convent

Liberated Women

Chastity and Lots of Praying

In the Lives of Salmon

In the Land of Reindeer

In the Company of Walruses

In the Country of Whales

In the Minds of Dogs

Unspoken Communication

Ownership of Communication

Visibility as Communication

Forms of Communication

Communication Withheld

1970s, Into the Mainstream

1950s and 60s, Performance in Period Style

1940s, New Life for Old Music

1930s, Creating a National Music

1920s, Reviving Old Ayres

Diversity

Radiophonia

A century of Juliets

Shakespeare in war and peace

Finding a way

Vaughan Williams - Amanda Dalton

Vaughan Willliams - Luke Turner

Vaughan Williams - Adrian McNally

Vaughan Williams - Dr Rommi Smith

Vaughan Williams - Clare Shaw

Alvin Pang

Anil Pradhan

Isabelle Baafi

Roy McFarlane

Tishani Doshi

Casey Bailey

Naush Sabah

Professor Thomas Glave

Dr Shahed Yousaf

Helen Cross

Christopher Laing

Robert Adam

Deepa Shastri

Tina Kelberman

Sign Language through the Ages (Robert Adam)

Beats

Musicians

Artists

Writers

Actors

Miracle

The Lives of Others

Going for a Walk

Windows

Moments of Being

Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho

Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë

Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall

Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats

Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde

Pause for Thought

A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age Paris

African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

Opium Tales

Alexander and the Persians

The Paradox of Ecological Art

John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for Freedom

Ruffs in Jamestown

Contesting an Alphabet

Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield

Boy with a Pearl Earring

Uniforms - An Alternative History

Drama, Dressing-up and Droopy & Browns

In a Handbag

Body Armour

Nuala O'Connor on Penelope

Mary Costello on Ithaca

Colm Tóibín on Sirens

John Patrick McHugh on Calypso

Anne Enright on Telemachus

Euphoria

Chalk on the Wall

The Art of Staying

Searching with Shorelines

Traybakes

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Voices in the Dark

The Wake

Island Isolation

The Great White Silence

Himiko: Shaman Queen

Murasaki Shikibu: Imperial Insider

Oda Nobunaga: Warlord

Tezuka Osamu: Godfather of Manga

Daimatsu 'The Demon' Hirobumi

King Zog - And Time to Leave

Scoop

North and South

Tirana

Setting Off

Colin Grant on VS Naipaul

Jen McDerra on Gladys Lindo

Kei Miller on Louise Bennett

Paul Mendez on Andrew Salkey

Sara Collins on Una Marson

Vera Hall

Robert McFerrin

Eric Bentley

Leontyne Price

Marian Anderson

In Praise of Flatness

A Norwegian Morality Tale

Beyond the Betting Shop

Colonial Papers

Battlefield Finds

The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far

Hoarding or Collecting?

A Social History of Soup

New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress

New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

John Halifax, Gentleman

The Black Lizard

England and the Touch of Rain

Paris and the Look of Rain

Australia and the Smell of Rain

Japan and the Taste of Rain

India and the Sound of Rain

Wind

Ivories

Impression

Romance

Enlighten

The acting coach

How reality TV has changed acting

On stage and on screen

How to become an actor?

What is good acting?

The Essex Way

Brightening from the East

The Refusal of Place

Washed Up in Essex

Metropolitan Essex

Jess Gillam on Bach

Jumoké Fashola on Nina Simone

Ian Skelly on Jean Mouton

Elizabeth Alker on Sofia Gubaidulina

Hannah French on Barbara Strozzi

Sonny Rollins

Stan Tracey

Americans in Britain

The British Audience

On Not Being a Jazzer

Cape Town

Fort-de-France

Kingston

Philadelphia

Marseille

The woman with the spoon

The man with the pipe

The man with the French horn

The boy with the monkey on his back

The man with the ship on his head

Metacom

Susanna White-Winslow

John Alden

Squanto

400 years on

Egyptian Satire

Pogroms and Prejudice

Prison Break

Facing Facts

Facing Facts

Not Quite Jean Muir

Digging Deep

Tudor Virtual Reality

Coming out Crip and Acts of Care

Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music

The Holy Island

Barra

Staffa

Jura

Mingulay

Ian Sansom: Mince on Toast with Christopher Isherwood

Ian Sansom: Cheese Dreams with Graham Greene

Helen Mort: More Than Enough

AL Kennedy: Hope On, Hope Ever

AL Kennedy: The Towers We Founded and the Lamps We Lit

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 10.Aida Edemariam

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 9.David Constatine

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 8.Michael Morpurgo

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 7. Evie Wyld

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 6.David Almond

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 5. Alice Oswald

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 4.Tessa Hadley

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 3. Tahmima Anam

The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 2.Inua Ellams

They Essay - Let Me Take You There 1

Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 5. Joe Hill

Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 4. Zog Nit Keynmol

Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 3. The Canoe Song

Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 2. Ol' Man River

Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 1. No More Auction Block

The Preseli Mountains

Epynt

The Brecon Beacons

The Black Mountains

Snowdonia

Margaret Oliphant

Lady Mary Wroth

Charlotte Turner Smith

Storm Jameson

Yolande Mukagasana

Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda

Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza

Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls

Michael Donkor - On Wandsworth Bridge

Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston

10: The Resurrection

9: The Missing

8: The Echo

7: The Love Story

6: The Persona

5: The Deserter

4: The Living Artwork

3: The Most Hated Art Critic in France

2: The Boxer

1: The Poet

Philippa Gregory on Jane Eyre

Elif Shafak on Anna Karenina

AL Kennedy on The Wind in the Willows

Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs Dalloway

Ian Rankin on Lord of the Flies

John Ocansey

Mary Prince and Sally Hemings

Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Isaac

Philip Quaque

Episode 5

Episode 4

Episode 3

Fiery the Angels Fell - David Thomson

Zhora and the Snake - Dr Beth Singler

The Year of Blade Runner 3: More Human Than Human - Ken Hollings

The Year of Blade Runner 2: Sounds of the Future Past

Los Angeles 2019

Episode 2

Episode 1

Philip Hoare - The Haunted Sea

Ed Vulliamy - Forever Young

Wendy Erskine - Knock Knock, Who's There?

Stephen Sexton - The Tory Islanders

Sinead Gleeson - Pain, Borders and Averting Our Gaze

Mirkwood

The Wood Beyond the World

Scents of the Forest

Outlaws of the Forest

Forest Folk

Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue

Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis

Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger

Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen

Penny Gore on Leoš Janáček

Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley

John Toal on Maurice Ravel

Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu

Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube

Rame Head Chapel

Trinity Theatre

Malcolm's Place, Uig, Isle of Lewis

Rochdale Town Hall

Glasgow School of Art

The Hard Man in the Call Centre

'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The History of the Three-Piece Suit

Comrades in Arms

Sword to Pen: Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir

The Well-Groomed Georgian

Daniel Hahn

Alys Conran

Alex Wheatle

Horatio Clare

Fiona Stafford

Swimming the Avon

The Power of the Thames

The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

Medway Mudlarks

Gaelic Waters

Dear William...

Dear Marianne ...

Dear Oscar...

Dear Mary...

Dear Dante...

Where Do Human Rights Come From?

Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?

Who Wrote Animal Farm?

Shopping Around the Baby Market

Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama

A City is not a Park

Woman on the Edge of Time

The Female Man

Herland

Mizora: A Prophecy

Three Hundred Years Hence

Cary Grant

Joel McCrea

Charles Boyer

Frederic March

Clark Gable

Make Some Noise

Your Master's Voice

Words, Words, Words

Not Killing Conversation

Voices, Voices, Everywhere

25/01/2019

24/01/2019

23/01/2019

22/01/2019

21/01/2019

Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche

Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy

Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn

Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn

Harold Godwinson

Edward the Confessor

Aethelred the Unready

The Smith - Gold and Black

Alfred the Great

Bede, the Father of English History

The Beowulf Bard

Eadfrith the Scribe

Cuthbert

King Raedwald

Dear Caravaggio

Dear Frida Kahlo

Dear Julia Margaret Cameron

Dear Picasso

Dear Albrecht Dürer

Ted Hughes and Tenderness

Ted Hughes and the River of Time

Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia

Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters

Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin

100 Acre Wood

The Jungle Book

Brothers Grimm

Fate

Family

Disorder

Origins

Why the Lloyd George museum is so small

Devils

Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms

Ma-Hw

Dinogad's Jerkin – The oldest lullaby in Britain

Joan Crawford

St Kilda

Rum

Iona

Jean Harlow

Barbara Stanwyck

Katharine Hepburn

Dear Agatha Christie...

Dear Virginia Woolf...

Dear George Eliot...

Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...

The Underground Railroad

To The Lighthouse

Never Let Me Go

The Wings of the Dove

Sonny's Blues

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights

John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

The Forgotten German Princess

Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler

Forest Fire

Forests of the Imagination

Mab Jones on Jane Eyre

Francesca Rhydderch on Orlando

Fiona Sampson on Mother Courage

Bettany Hughes on Helen of Troy

Afua Hirsch on Maggie Tulliver

The Shopping News: Paris

Tirana

Berlin

New York

Rome

Japan Refusal

The Art of the Heist

Rebranding the Buddha

Happy Families

Deer Cry Hall

Secret Admirers: Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue

Secret Admirers: Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis

Secret Admirers: Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger

Secret Admirers: Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen

Secret Admirers: Penny Gore on Leoš Janáček

Inua Ellams on Terry Pratchett

Alastair Campbell on 'Madame Bovary'

Zarah Hussain on The Arabian Nights

Henry Marsh on 'War and Peace'

Afua Hirsch on 'Wide Sargasso Sea'

Paul Morley

Jameela Siddiqi

Professor Kofi Agawu

Professor Alice Roberts

Sir Roger Scruton

What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?

Kids With Guns

Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

A War of Words

Doing Nothing

Educating Ida

Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

Art for Health's Sake

Welling Up: Women and Water in the Middle Ages

The Last Wolf

The Great Glen

The Moss Lairds

The Dark Years

Louise Welsh

Val McDermid

Janice Galloway

Kate Clanchy

Ali Smith

Lavinia Greenlaw

Rachel Cooke

Nicholas Shakespeare

Lauren Elkin

James Fox

Clay Bricks

Gypsum and Alabaster

North Sea Oil and Gas

Lewisian Gneiss

Flint

Watershed

Hafod Eryri

Chingle Hall

Gladstone's Library

Wigmore Hall

Dear William Trevor

Dear Oscar Wilde

Dear Mary Shelley

Dear Dante

Dear Marianne Moore

10 Eisenstein

9 Moisei Ginzburg

8 The State Porcelain Factory

7 Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva

6 Mosolov

5 Tatlin

4 Meyerhold

3 Nijinsky

2 John Reed, Eye-Witness

1 Choices

Memory and the landscape

The Tricks of Memory

The Fallibility of Memory

False Memories

Touching the Void

My Mother's House

Books and Letters

Decluttering

Tidy Home, Tidy Mind

Moving House

Robert Frost's 'Design'

Sylvia Plath's 'Cut'

Elizabeth Bishop's 'Large Bad Picture'

Michael Donaghy's 'The Hunter's Purse'

Seamus Heaney's 'The Underground'

John Siddique

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

Dining with the Nightmare

A Tale of Restoration Murder, Barbarous and Inhumane

Resisting Tyranny

A Focus on Fasting

A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding

Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump

Mata Hari's Final Performance

Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times

Gertrude Bell

Marcel Duchamp

Philip Melanchthon

Johann Walther

Katharina von Bora

Thomas Muntzer

Martin Luther

Late Style: Penelope Lively

Sex Shops

Late Style: Douglas Dunn

Late Style: Diana Hendry

Vicki Feaver

Late Style: Paul Bailey

The Milkman

The Telephone

The Ventriloquist Doll

The Boating Pond

Killing Time in Imperial Japan

England's First European

Russia's Sacred Ruins

Creating Modern India

The Magic Years

Faith, Fire and the Family

The British Writer and the Refugee

Alexander the Great's Lost City

In the Shadows of Biafra

Monks, Models and Medieval Time

Bette Davis

Naomi Alderman

John Walsh

Philip Hoare

Colin Thubron

Skin

Black and White: Messrs Smith and Carlos and Norman

Black and White: Yin and Yang

Black and White: Words on the Page

Black and White: Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics

The Essay - Gun Culture -The Howth Mauser

The Essay - Gun Culture - Sniper

The Essay: Gun Culture: Pistols At Dawn

The Essay: Gun Culture: Gotham's Gun Baron

Taking Aim - Renaissance-style

Billy Liar

This Sporting Life

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Room at the Top

Cornerstones: Chalk

Cornerstones: Fire Rocks

Cornerstones:Coal

Cornerstones:Millstone

Cornerstones: Quartz

Bethany Bell

Tom McKinney

Gillian Moore

Stephen Johnson

Sarah Walker

The Further Realm: Episode 5

The Further Realm: Episode 4

The Further Realm: Episode 3

The Further Realm: Episode 2

The Further Realm: Episode 1

Time

Books

Politics

Words

Memory

Dear Agatha Christie...

Dear Virginia Woolf...

Dear George Eliot...

Dear Jonathan Swift...

Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...

Sir Richard Eyre

Tacita Dean

Ben Anderson

Pauline Black

David Simon

Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she worked.

Queensferry Crossing, Scotland

Chesterfield's Crooked Spire, Derbyshire

Impington College, Cambridge

288a Main Road

The Rise and Fall of the Hairdresser

Strindberg and 'the Woman Question'

Telephone Terrors

Partitioned Memories

Food: Are We What We Eat?

Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower

Gervase Phinn: On the Camino de Santiago

Edwina Currie: A Ferry Across the Mersey

Michael Rosen: On the Trail of DH Lawrence

Lisa Appignanesi: A Visit to the Savoy Hotel

Poet Kenneth Steven on the Scottish islands

Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life

Poet Kenneth Steven on Scottish island life

Donald Sturrock on the events that made the man and writer

Michael Rosen on the exuberance of Dahl's poetry

Laura Dockrill on Dahl's heroine Matilda

Jeremy Dyson on the delicious lure of Dahl's adult fiction

Frank Cottrell Boyce on flying and myth-making

Daljit Nagra - On your 'A 1940 Memory'

Jackie Kay - Private Joseph Kay

Bill Manhire - Known unto God

Yrsa Daley-Ward - When your mother calls you, come

Paul Muldoon - July 1st 1916, with the Ulster Division

Get Playing: Alexander McCall Smith on the saxophone and the Really Terrible Orchestra

Get Playing: Peter Bradshaw's electric guitar

Get Playing: Poet Fiona Sampson on playing the violin

Get Playing: Joanne Harris on playing the flute and bass guitar

Alistair McGowan on playing the Piano

The Art of Storytelling: Emma Smith

The Art of Storytelling: David Crystal

The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton Hill

The Art of Storytelling: Jon Gower

The Art of Storytelling: Edmund de Waal

Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon

Lines of Work: Journalist Helen Lewis on John Milton

Lines of Work: Soldier Harry Parker on Ulysses S Grant

Lines of Work: Theatre Critic Susannah Clapp on Oscar Wilde

Lines of Work: Teacher Francis Gilbert on Rousseau

Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare Beyond London

Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India

Shakespeare 400. Joan Fitzpatrick on Wolf All? Shakespeare and food

Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England

Shakespeare 400. James Loxley on Undiscovered Countries: Shakespeare and the Nation

Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation

Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes

Minds at War: Sean O'Casey's "The Silver Tassie"

Minds at War: Father Browne's war photograph

Minds at War: "O' Connell Street"

Minds at War: "The Last September"

Minds at War: "Ulysses"

Lucy Hughes Hallett

Ian Sansom

Kamila Shamsie

Nicola Barker

Nicholas Shakespeare

Inspiring Women in Music: Zoe Martlew

Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham

Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam

Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu

Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

Byrd: Mass for Four Voices

Mahler's Symphony No 8

Rachel Joyce on Bronte as a Literary Star

Jane Shilling on I Shall Soon Be Thirty

I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte: Lyndall Gordon on Charlotte Bronte and Robert Southey

Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte in Belgium

Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte, Governess

Lovers

Family

Friends

My Generation

Strangers

Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse

James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1

Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone?

Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs

Ivan Hewett on Brian Eno's Music for Airports

Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"

Art in a Cold Climate: Thomas Hylland Eriksen on the Holmenkollen Ski-Jumping Hill

Art in a Cold Climate: Ray Hudson on Touching Fire by Carolyn Reed

Art in a Cold Climate: Mette Moestrup on Pia Arke's Camera Obscura

Art in a Cold Climate: Hallgrimur Helgason on Fish Processing in Eyjafjord by Kristin Jonsdottir

Art in a Cold Climate: Elizabeth Hay on Painting Place III by David Milne

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Alaska

Cornerstones: Siberia

Cornerstones: Greenland Caves

Cornerstones - The Canadian Arctic

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland

Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities

Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots

Homage to Caledonia: Morality and Misery

Homage to Caledonia: GSOH

Homage to Caledonia: Scots Abroad

Middletown

Mr Average

Working 9 to 5

Small, Medium and Large

On the Average

Dar es Salaam - Ubhuche, Invisible Histories of the First World War

Delhi - Parting Words

Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists

Washington - Safe for Democracy

Sydney - Stories that Bind

Akhmatova's July 1914

Parade

Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

Tzara's Dada Manifesto

Tagore's Nobel Lectures

Kirsteen McCue

Adam Nicolson

Andrea Stuart

Julia Blackburn

Of Miracle, of Magic

The View from the Tower

The Second Coming of the Second Coming

Not Liking Yeats

Yeats by Heart

Brigadoon

Unthank

Duncairn

Thrums

Show Me the Way to Tillietudlem

Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke

Hay Festival: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Hay Festival: Horatio Clare

Hay Festival: Alex Clark

Hay Festival: Daniel Hahn

Some Kind of Genius

F for Fake

Why Citizen Kane Matters

He that Plays the King

Boy Wonder

Je suis un table

Sid James

Tony Hancock

Terry-Thomas

Alastair Sim

Will Hay

Lead Us Not into Temptation

Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

Thy Kingdom Come...

Art in Heaven

Jimmy Rowles

Ruby Braff

Marian McPartland

Doc Cheatham

Kamila Shamsie

Marcus O'Dair

Antonia Quirke

Christopher Hope

Betty Freeman

Mary Gladstone

Leopoldine Wittgenstein

Lady Maud Warrender

Nadezhda von Meck

Raymond Tallis

Temple Grandin

Quentin Skinner

Kier-La Janisse

Matthew Sweet

The Tichborne Claimant

The Broom Cottages

The Dogon

The Nebula in Orion

Anna Bertha's Hand

Just Juvenilia: Roger Michell

Just Juvenilia: Stephen Coates

Just Juvenilia: Janet Suzman

Just Juvenilia: Harland Miller

Just Juvenilia: Deborah Moggach

Castles in Concrete

The British Castle: A Woman's Place

The Siege of Kenilworth

Castle Builders

Power and Control

Lolita Chakrabarti on A Tale of Two Cities

Jon Ronson on What a Carve Up!

Jude Kelly on Little Women

Steve Earle on In Cold Blood

So Near to Venice

The Writing on the Wall

Tinseltown

At Home

Lucy Jones: Crawling to Glory

Goya, Klee, Matisse: Leaving the Best till Last?

Arturo Bispo do Rosario: The Sculptor Who Saved the World

The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce - What Would I Do If I Didn't Paint?

The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker

Dresden - Targets

Sarajevo - Divine Uncertainty

London - Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells

St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution

Paris: The Christmas Truce

Greece

Italy

Spain

France

England

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Fi Glover

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Roger Phillips

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: David Hendy

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Olivia O'Leary

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Samuel West

Luke Johnson on The Magic of Thinking Big

Malorie Blackman on The Color Purple

Simon McBurney on And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Tracey Thorn on The Female Eunuch

Alan Johnson on David Copperfield

Alchemy and Magic

Three Lives

Women

Letters

The Discovery

Brahms and the Future

Brahms and Freud

Brahms and Germany

Brahms and Nature

Public Brahms, Private Brahms

The Firebird

Bach: St Matthew Passion

Scenes from Childhood

Victoria: Lamentations

Haydn: Symphony No 100 (Military)

Beckett and the Wake

Lost in Translation

Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written

Beckett's Living Dead

A Body of Becketts

Slate

Granite

Sandstone

Limestone

A Matter of Life and Death

The Red Shoes

Jeanette Winterson

Xiaolu Guo

Daniel Kehlmann

Colm Toibin

Elif Shafak

Black Narcissus

The Grieving Parents

The Broken Wing

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Battleship Potemkin

Le Feu

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

Der Krieg

Non-Combatants and Others

Paths of Glory

Holguin