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Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn

502

Harold Godwinson

503

Edward the Confessor

504

Aethelred the Unready

505

The Smith - Gold and Black

506

Alfred the Great

507

Bede, the Father of English History

508

The Beowulf Bard

509

Eadfrith the Scribe

510

Cuthbert

511

King Raedwald

512

Dear Caravaggio

513

Dear Frida Kahlo

514

Dear Julia Margaret Cameron

515

Dear Picasso

516

Dear Albrecht Dürer

517

Episode 4

518

Episode 3

519

Episode 2

520

Episode 1

521

Ted Hughes and Tenderness

522

Ted Hughes and the River of Time

523

Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia

524

Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters

525

Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin

526

100 Acre Wood

527

The Jungle Book

528

Brothers Grimm

529

Fate

530

Family

531

Disorder

532

Origins

533

Artists

534

Why the Lloyd George museum is so small

535

Devils

536

Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms

537

Ma-Hw

538

Dinogad's Jerkin – The oldest lullaby in Britain

539

Joan Crawford

540

St Kilda

541

Rum

542

Iona

543

Jean Harlow

544

Barbara Stanwyck

545

Katharine Hepburn

546

Dear Agatha Christie...

547

Dear Virginia Woolf...

548

Dear George Eliot...

549

Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...

550

The Underground Railroad

551

To The Lighthouse

552

Never Let Me Go

553

The Wings of the Dove

554

Sonny's Blues

555

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights

556

John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

557

Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

558

The Forgotten German Princess

559

Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler

560

Forest Fire

561

Forests of the Imagination

562

Mab Jones on Jane Eyre

563

Francesca Rhydderch on Orlando

564

Fiona Sampson on Mother Courage

565

Bettany Hughes on Helen of Troy

566

Afua Hirsch on Maggie Tulliver

567

The Shopping News: Paris

568

Tirana

569

Berlin

570

New York

571

Rome

572

Japan Refusal

573

The Art of the Heist

574

Rebranding the Buddha

575

Happy Families

576

Deer Cry Hall

577

Secret Admirers: Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue

578

Secret Admirers: Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis

579

Secret Admirers: Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger

580

Secret Admirers: Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen

581

Secret Admirers: Penny Gore on Leoš Janáček

582

Episode 3

583

Episode 2

584

Episode 1

585

Inua Ellams on Terry Pratchett

586

Alastair Campbell on 'Madame Bovary'

587

Zarah Hussain on The Arabian Nights

588

Henry Marsh on 'War and Peace'

589

Afua Hirsch on 'Wide Sargasso Sea'

590

Paul Morley

591

Jameela Siddiqi

592

Professor Kofi Agawu

593

Professor Alice Roberts

594

Sir Roger Scruton

595

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

596

Kids With Guns

597

Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

598

When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

599

A War of Words

600

Doing Nothing