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Minds at War: "O' Connell Street"

802

Minds at War: "The Last September"

803

Minds at War: "Ulysses"

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804

Lucy Hughes Hallett

805

Ian Sansom

806

Kamila Shamsie

807

Nicola Barker

808

Nicholas Shakespeare

809

Inspiring Women in Music: Zoe Martlew

810

Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham

811

Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam

812

Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu

813

Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly

814

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

815

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4

816

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

817

Byrd: Mass for Four Voices

818

Mahler's Symphony No 8

819

Rachel Joyce on Bronte as a Literary Star

820

Jane Shilling on I Shall Soon Be Thirty

821

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

822

Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte in Belgium

823

Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte, Governess

824

Lovers

825

Family

826

Friends

827

My Generation

828

Strangers

829

Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

830

F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

831

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

832

Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse

833

James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1

834

Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone?

835

Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs

836

Ivan Hewett on Brian Eno's Music for Airports

837

Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

838

Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"

839

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

840

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

841

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

842

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

843

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

844

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Alaska

845

Cornerstones: Siberia

846

Cornerstones: Greenland Caves

847

Cornerstones - The Canadian Arctic

848

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland

849

Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities

850

Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots

851

Homage to Caledonia: Morality and Misery

852

Homage to Caledonia: GSOH

853

Homage to Caledonia: Scots Abroad

854

Middletown

855

Mr Average

856

Working 9 to 5

857

Small, Medium and Large

858

On the Average

859

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

860

Delhi - Parting Words

861

Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists

862

Washington - Safe for Democracy

863

Sydney - Stories that Bind

864

Akhmatova's July 1914

865

Parade

866

Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

867

Tzara's Dada Manifesto

868

Tagore's Nobel Lectures

869

Kirsteen McCue

870

Adam Nicolson

871

Andrea Stuart

872

Julia Blackburn

873

Of Miracle, of Magic

874

The View from the Tower

875

The Second Coming of the Second Coming

876

Not Liking Yeats

877

Yeats by Heart

878

Brigadoon

879

Unthank

880

Duncairn

881

Thrums

882

Show Me the Way to Tillietudlem

883

Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke

884

Hay Festival: Frank Cottrell Boyce

885

Hay Festival: Horatio Clare

886

Hay Festival: Alex Clark

887

Hay Festival: Daniel Hahn

888

Some Kind of Genius

889

F for Fake

890

Why Citizen Kane Matters

891

He that Plays the King

892

Boy Wonder

893

Je suis un table

894

Sid James

895

Tony Hancock

896

Terry-Thomas

897

Alastair Sim

898

Will Hay

899

Lead Us Not into Temptation

900

Forgive Us Our Trespasses