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4: The Living Artwork

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3: The Most Hated Art Critic in France

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2: The Boxer

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1: The Poet

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Philippa Gregory on Jane Eyre

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Elif Shafak on Anna Karenina

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AL Kennedy on The Wind in the Willows

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Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs Dalloway

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Ian Rankin on Lord of the Flies

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John Ocansey

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Mary Prince and Sally Hemings

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Sarah Forbes Bonetta

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Isaac

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Philip Quaque

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Episode 5

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Episode 4

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Episode 3

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Fiery the Angels Fell - David Thomson

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Zhora and the Snake - Dr Beth Singler

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

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

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Los Angeles 2019

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Episode 2

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Episode 1

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Philip Hoare - The Haunted Sea

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Ed Vulliamy - Forever Young

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Wendy Erskine - Knock Knock, Who's There?

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Stephen Sexton - The Tory Islanders

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Sinead Gleeson - Pain, Borders and Averting Our Gaze

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Mirkwood

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The Wood Beyond the World

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Scents of the Forest

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Outlaws of the Forest

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Forest Folk

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Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue

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Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis

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Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger

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Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen

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Penny Gore on Leoš Janáček

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Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley

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John Toal on Maurice Ravel

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Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu

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Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube

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Rame Head Chapel

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Trinity Theatre

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Malcolm's Place, Uig, Isle of Lewis

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Rochdale Town Hall

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Glasgow School of Art

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The Hard Man in the Call Centre

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The History of the Three-Piece Suit

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Comrades in Arms

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

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The Well-Groomed Georgian

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Daniel Hahn

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Alys Conran

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Alex Wheatle

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Horatio Clare

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Fiona Stafford

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Swimming the Avon

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The Power of the Thames

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The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

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Medway Mudlarks

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Gaelic Waters

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Dear William...

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Dear Marianne ...

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Dear Oscar...

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Dear Mary...

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Dear Dante...

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Where Do Human Rights Come From?

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Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?

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Who Wrote Animal Farm?

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Shopping Around the Baby Market

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Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go

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Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama

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A City is not a Park

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Woman on the Edge of Time

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The Female Man

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Herland

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Mizora: A Prophecy

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Three Hundred Years Hence

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Cary Grant

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Joel McCrea

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Charles Boyer

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Frederic March

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Clark Gable

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Make Some Noise

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Your Master's Voice

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Words, Words, Words

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Not Killing Conversation

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Voices, Voices, Everywhere

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25/01/2019

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24/01/2019

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23/01/2019

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22/01/2019

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21/01/2019

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Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche

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Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

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Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy

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Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn