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In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on BBC Radio 3.
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Tuner of the World from 2023-06-12T08:47
"For the next hour, I need your ears". It's 1974 and someone is trying to recruit you for a listening experiment on public radio in Canada.
Pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape mae...
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Supply Lines from 2023-06-04T17:45
Via ports and truck-stops, fulfilment centres and ring roads, Aidan Tulloch follows the supply chain and reimagines the journey an item goes on in the age of 24/7 delivery.
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New Generation Thinkers: The Perfect Balance from 2023-05-15T15:07
Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri searches for different perspectives on the idea of balance.
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The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch from 2023-05-07T17:45
Denton Welch lived the last years of his short life in Kent during the Second World War. His writing career took off in 1943 and in the same year he met his companion, Eric Oliver. His writing...
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The Black Cantor from 2023-04-23T18:30
Known in Yiddish as Der Schvartze Khazn--the Black Cantor--Thomas LaRue Jones was an African American tenor who sang Jewish music in the early decades of the twentieth century. Famed for his sou...
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Sunday Feature - Shakespeare's Brum Ting from 2023-03-26T19:00
Over a century ago, in 1881, the city of Birmingham purchased a copy of Shakespeare's first folio. It was to be the crown jewel of their new Shakespeare library, the brainchild of the first libr...
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X-Ray Vision: Rudolph Fisher in Harlem from 2023-03-19T18:46
Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American life
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Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European from 2023-03-13T11:09
One day, three decades after the event, the German poet and man of letters, Heinrich Heine, stood on the site of the battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories an...
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Government Song Woman from 2023-03-05T19:20
American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell. Travelling thousands of miles all over the US in the depre...
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Tutu - A Portrait of Nigeria from 2023-02-12T19:30
Chibundu Onuzo tells the fascinating story of ‘Africa’s Mona Lisa’ and artist Ben Enwonwu
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O Sole Mio from 2023-02-09T17:26
“All Neapolitans were born to be musicians, to be singers,” says musicologist Dr Dinko Fabris, referring to the foundation myth of Naples, according to which the city was created by the siren Pa...
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Metal City from 2023-02-05T18:45
Metalworking has been central to the rise and success of Birmingham over hundreds of years. But how has this industry affected the culture of the city? Did the experience of working with metal a...
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Rebel Sounds: Musical Resistance in Barbados from 2023-01-29T19:30
From 1627-1807, nearly 400,000 human beings were kidnapped, sold and shipped in horrific conditions across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the tiny island of Barbados. There, they were en...
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Yiddish Glory from 2023-01-27T22:48
During World War II, approximately 1.6 million Soviet, Polish and Romanian Jews survived the Holocaust by escaping to Soviet Central Asia and Siberia, avoiding imminent death in ghettos, firing ...
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Scott Ross - Harpsichord Rebel from 2023-01-15T18:45
In 1984, an American harpsichord player called Scott Ross quit a teaching job in Canada and returned to France, the country that since he was a teenager had been his adopted home. It was the yea...
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Unlocking Anne from 2023-01-01T13:35
Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England, wrote the first ever sonnet sequence in the English language? Impossible, thought Clare Pollard. As a celebrated playwright and poet, with much...
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What Walls Hold from 2022-12-25T18:45
London. Tavistock House. 1851. It shaped Charles Dickens’ life and career.
Home to The Smallest Theatre in the World, Mrs Weldon’s Orphanage and an alluring French lodger called Charles ...
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Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar from 2022-12-13T15:32
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony was inspired by an unflinching poem about the ‘Holocaust of Bullets’ at Babi Yar in Ukraine, one of the biggest massacres of World War Two. Lucy Ash pie...
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Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey from 2022-11-28T15:26
Rory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house in Brigflatts, to a medieval tower on Newcastle city walls, in search of clues in Basil Bunting's life an...
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Sunday Feature: Florence Price’s Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship from 2022-08-05T17:32
The remarkable female musicians and activists who helped Florence Price's music to thrive
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Sunday Feature:The Emergency from 2022-03-13T19:30
Regan Hutchins tells the story of how dancers, spies, writers and artists brought a welcome burst of creativity to neutral Dublin during World War II.
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Sunday Feature: Nixon in China from 2022-02-20T18:45
Director Daniel Kramer explores John Adams' opera Nixon in China on the 50th anniversary of the President's state visit in a feature combining art, reportage, music and politics.
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Sunday Feature: Hidden Women and Silenced Scores from 2022-01-23T19:30
Music historian Leah Broad uncovers the sometimes shocking stories of three marginalised 20th century female composers, and hears some of their music for the very first time.
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Tchaikovsky's Island of Inspiration from 2022-01-02T18:45
If it hadn’t been for Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s love of jam, he may never have completed his first large-scale work. After graduating from the Conservatory of St Petersburg, the 26-year-old started co...
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Sunday Feature: This Land of Words and Water from 2021-12-12T19:30
A journey into the Ireland of Louis MacNeice’s imagination following lines from his poems.
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Sunday Feature: In Search of the Sublime from 2021-12-05T19:30
High in the mountains of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, artist Emma Stibbon RA explores the idea of the Sublime in 19th century landscape painting and its power to move viewers today.
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Sunday Feature: Afterwords - Stuart Hall from 2021-11-28T18:45
Reflections on the life and work of the Jamaican-British cultural studies pioneer, Stuart Hall, through archive and contributions from those who knew him and his work.
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Afterwords: Simone de Beavoir from 2021-11-14T19:30
An intimate portrait of the philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir through her archive and the words of those who knew her or know her work.
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Sunday Feature: Nuit Blanche from 2021-10-31T19:00
Why are some people at their most creative at night? From dusk to dawn – hour by hour – artists, authors, graffiti writers, musicians and thinkers reveal their nocturnal processes
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Sunday Feature: How to Re-Build a City from 2021-09-26T18:30
Dr Lisa Mullen finds out how blitzed Coventry became the City of Tomorrow. A testbed for architectural ideas, we uncover the choices that made it a symbol of postwar recovery
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A Racist Music from 2021-08-19T21:00
Errollyn Wallen challenges the legacy of John Powell – a once-celebrated composer
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Cristiani and Her Cello from 2021-08-16T21:00
Dr Kate Kennedy explores the life of pioneer 19th-century cellist Lise Cristiani and investigates the profound bond she developed with the instrument she called 'husband'
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Sunday Feature - Great Scott from 2021-07-25T17:45
Allan Little on the life and legacy of Walter Scott 250 years on from the writer's birth.
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Then there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the week from 2021-07-12T15:24
LICHT, the vast opera cycle composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2004 is an enigma, and composer and broadcaster Robert Worby goes on a personal journey to find out why it divides ...
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Sunday Feature: Unmouthed from 2021-06-20T17:45
What happens to a creative mind when it has everything taken away? Dr Kate Kennedy traces composer and poet Ivor Gurney’s 15 years in an asylum, uncovering unseen poems and music
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Sunday Feature: Regarding the Pain of Others from 2021-06-02T16:24
BBC Correspondent Allan Little addresses the gulf between the reality of war and our ability to comprehend it from afar. He picks ups on Susan Sontag's essay on war photography.
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Even more Kershaw Tapes from 2021-05-09T18:30
During the 1980s and 1990s, DJ Andy Kershaw travelled around Africa and the Americas searching out great music and taping it on his Walkman Pro, a new broadcast-quality cassette recorder that wa...
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Riding the Waves from 2021-05-08T18:01
Musicians and writers immerse themselves in the writing of Virginia Woolf, 90 years after the publication of her modernist novel The Waves.
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More Kershaw Tapes from 2021-05-04T13:17
In this episode, Andy meets Kenyan harpist Ayub Ogada on a beach in Cornwall, the Antioch Gospel group in a car park in New Orleans, Cuarteto Iglesias on a roof top in Cuba and a young Ballake S...
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Sunday Feature: Silent Spaces from 2021-04-04T20:30
A year since lockdown began, Soumik Datta explores what's become of the empty music venues lying dormant across the country.
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Sunday Feature: Should Feminists read Baudelaire? from 2021-04-02T11:30
Poet and novelist Michèle Roberts investigates Baudelaire’s alleged misogyny. How do we reconcile his passionate love of women with their violent treatment in poetry?
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New Generation Thinker short feature: Hilltop Histories from 2021-03-14T19:30
Seren Griffiths uses a walk along a sandstone ridge in Northern Cheshire to explore the way a landscape can hold multiple histories, and in doing so make it easier for us to contemplate distant ...
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Sunday Feature: The Tidal Sense from 2021-03-07T20:00
Artist Signe Lidén asks what the tide means, and could it be trying to tell us something?
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NGT The Balcony from 2021-02-28T19:30
New Generation Thinker Dr Islam Issa has a strong cultural attachment to the Balcony. In his native Egypt, the place where architectural historians believe the balcony was first developed, the b...
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Sunday Feature: Classical Commonwealth from 2021-02-21T20:00
Errollyn Wallen unravels the story of how classical music fused with local musical traditions across the British Commonwealth, speaking to acclaimed conductor Zubin Mehta, soprano Patricia Rozario,...
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John Foulds - Life, Death and Resurrection from 2021-02-11T14:59
In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the music of John Foulds, resurrecting this long neglected composer from the footnotes of British musical history. Simon Heffer is a huge fan...
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Sunday Feature: Our Birmingham Fathers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Three people are grieving their musician fathers, and dealing with their legacies. As they meet and share their experience, the worlds of folk, classical and ska come together
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Sunday Feature: Curves and Concrete from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How did a maverick Scottish architect revolutionise the design of UK skateparks? Documentary maker Steve Urquhart explores the ambition and legacy of his late uncle Iain Urquhart.
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Sunday Feature: Tate Modern - Exploding the Canon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Director Frances Morris talks to artists and curators to understand how Tate Modern can not only explode the canon, but redesign the institution in which art is shown.
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Sunday Feature: Margaret Fay Shaw’s Hebridean Odyssey from 2021-01-24T19:45
Archivist Fiona Mackenzie tells the story of how a classically trained pianist from America travelled to the Outer Hebrides in the 1920s to collect and record Gaelic folk songs.
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The Apple and the Tree from 2021-01-17T19:30
When he was a boy and returned to the family home from primary school in the afternoon, Carlo Gébler would often hear the sound of typing coming from the shed at the foot of the garden. This was...
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Sunday Feature - Dissecting Beethoven from 2020-12-15T15:46
An exploration of Beethoven’s music through the body that gave him so much trouble.
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Sunday Feature: The Fake Poet from 2020-11-29T18:45
Why does the image of the forlorn and abandoned poet Thomas Chatterton haunt us today?
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The Silence of My Pain from 2020-11-08T18:45
Hannah French explores a hidden disability for many musicians: pain.
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New Generation Thinker short Feature: COVID and The Black Death, an imperfect fit. from 2020-10-18T18:45
It's understandable that, with the onset of a global pandemic, commentators have looked to the past for comparisons. But Dr Seb Falk is concerned that with the easy headlines about the mortality...
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Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan from 2020-07-15T12:35
John Cage is arguably the most important composer of the 20th century, even though he's perhaps famous, or infamous depending on your point of view, for writing a piece of music that is 4'33" of...
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The Crankiness of C.W.Daniel from 2020-04-26T18:45
New Generation Thinker Elsa Richardson on the radical 20th century publisher C.W.Daniel.
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The Queen Of Technicolor from 2020-03-13T13:00
Marie-Louise Muir traces her childhood idol Maureen O’Hara’s journey from Dublin's suburbs to star of the Golden Age.
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The East Speaks Back from 2020-03-12T12:42
We are used to getting a worldview from the west, but what did the east make of us? Jerry Brotton heads to Istanbul on the trail of one the world's great travellers, Evliya Celebi
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Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before from 2020-01-19T18:45
David Bramwell with actors whose lives were transformed by director Ken Campbell.
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Glitter and Villainy from 2019-12-29T19:15
Daisy Black, Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, investigates the camp villain in history.
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Rewiring Raymond Scott from 2019-12-22T12:27
At the height of his fame as a jazz composer and band leader in the late 1930s, Raymond Scott was billed as ‘America’s Foremost Composer of Modern Music’. Jazz legend Art Blakey confessed that h...
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Poles Apart from 2019-11-15T12:29
The unknown tale of cold war communist Poland’s unlikely love affair with electronic music. Robert Worby finds out Warsaw was a beacon of musical freedom behind the iron curtain. It was here tha...
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The Hidden Reservoir from 2019-11-15T10:38
Carlo Gebler on the role of art in remembrance and reconciliation in Northern Ireland
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Power Plays from 2019-11-03T19:30
As East Germany crumbled in 1989, actors were centre stage. Andrew Dickson discovers how had theatre had survived under communist rule, with its censors and secret police spies. Focusing in part...
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Al Andalus - The Legacy from 2019-10-24T16:03
Andrew Hussey journeys through Andalusia searching for the legacy of Muslim Spain
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Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall from 2019-10-16T09:55
Actor Lily Cole plays Elizabeth Siddall who climbs out of her grave to tell her story.
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Literary Pursuits: Lord of the Flies from 2019-09-23T14:20
Golding's classic novel was saved from being rejected by Faber by the luckiest chance.
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Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR from 2019-07-14T18:30
Jazz and communist East Germany seem unlikely bedfellows. Yet in 1965 Louis Armstrong became the first American entertainer to play jazz there at the height of the Cold War. East Germans celebra...
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Sir Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone from 2019-06-30T18:15
Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates Isaac Newton's more obscure studies in Alchemy.
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A Unicorn Quest from 2019-06-27T11:55
Hetta Howes sets off to find the unicorn of myth in 21st century Britain.
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Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip from 2019-05-26T18:29
300 years since Robinson Crusoe was published, Emma Smith traces it across the centuries
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Alexander Korda: Producer, Director, Exile, Spy from 2019-05-19T18:30
Matthew Sweet unearths the film-maker Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.
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John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror from 2019-05-05T18:00
Drawing on the testimony of many who knew him, Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of the brilliant, playful, Pulitzer-winning American poet John Ashbery, who died in 2017.
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Hotel Genius from 2019-04-26T11:58
It’s been described as one of the most remarkable collections of minds on the planet. It has a brilliant international faculty, but no students. Its researchers have made some of the most signif...
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The Deluxe Edition from 2019-03-24T18:45
Dr Seán Williams takes a first class trip through the enduring contradictions of luxury.
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Jazz Japan from 2019-03-11T15:29
Musician and journalist Katherine Whatley explores the rich and surprising history of jazz in Japan. Surprising because the chaotic individualism of this American art form appears at first to go...
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A History of the Tongue from 2019-02-11T15:18
A succulent & mouth watering portrait of one of the least talked about organs of the body.
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Literary Pursuits: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables from 2018-12-30T18:45
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind how great works of literature were written.
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Sunday Feature: Into the Forest - The Pine Tree from 2018-12-23T18:45
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough tells the magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas day - the pine tree. A tale of power, biological wonder and baubles.
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Harlem on Fire from 2018-11-25T19:30
'Fire!!' was a short-lived literary magazine from the Harlem Renaissance published in 1926, created by and for the young black artists of the movement. Featuring poetry, prose, drama and artwork...
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The Kristapurana from 2018-11-18T18:45
Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers from 2018-11-04T18:45
Two features by R3 New Generation Thinkers. Dr Simon Beard and Dr Islam Issa
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck from 2018-10-28T19:30
Two Features by R3 New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck.
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Inside Stories from 2018-10-22T11:46
Author Carlo Gebler has spent nearly three decades working in the Northern Ireland prison system as a teacher of creative writing. He's been in all the prisons there - including the notorious Ma...
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Forests of The Imagination from 2018-10-15T10:59
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough enters the forests of our imagination, looking for stories. Alternative realities, holy quests and fairytales hidden among the glories of the Autumn forest.
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A Portrait of Parry from 2018-10-08T10:19
Sir Hubert Parry is largely remembered today for a handful of iconic works including Jerusalem, I was Glad, Blest Pair of Sirens, and for writing the hymn tune to Dear Lord and Father of Mankind...
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Sunday Feature: A Life in Study: Robert Lowell from 2018-09-24T13:45
Author Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell, once considered the greatest living poet in English.
Four decades ago, the American poet Robert...
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From the Ashes from 2018-08-14T12:30
Allan Little looks at arts festivals started in the aftermath of World War Two
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Monteverdi's Women from 2018-08-13T21:44
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
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The Killers from 2018-08-09T21:00
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.
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I Know an Island - RM Lockley from 2018-08-06T20:15
Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley, whose work inspired Watership Down, paying tribute to the stunning coastline and island where Lockley worked.
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In Search of Yves Klein from 2018-07-16T21:45
Liliane Lijn explores the work of postwar French artist Yves Klein, famous for patenting ultramarine blue and jumping from a window in the suburbs of Paris. Leap into the Void!
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Tony Harrison's Prague Spring from 2018-07-08T18:30
Chris Bowlby travels with Tony Harrison to Prague, to discover how one of Britain's best known poets was shaped by the cultural energy and tragedy of 1960s Czechoslovakia. Harrison reads from his P...
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Binary and Beyond: part two from 2018-07-01T18:30
Emma Smith on how coverage of gender in the arts might help us understand today's debate
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Binary and Beyond Part 1 from 2018-06-24T18:00
Might explorations of gender in great art of the past help illuminate today's issues?
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The Summer Forest from 2018-06-15T17:44
Once upon a time, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough woke up in the summer forest.
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Japan's Never Ending War from 2018-05-11T15:51
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
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Oh Dr Kinsey Look What You've Done to Me from 2018-05-06T18:30
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Supernatural Japan from 2018-04-22T18:30
In this Sunday Feature, historian Chris Harding travels from Tokyo to the deep countryside of Japan's north east to tell the alternative story of the country, looking at how, throughout their histo...
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Exit Burbage - The Man Who Created Hamlet from 2018-04-16T11:16
Imagine where we’d be without Shakespeare’s plays. It’s difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life. Today, Richard Burbage is a not a ...
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Too Many Artists from 2018-04-08T18:30
Paul Morley asks "Can there be too many artists in the world?"
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Sunday Feature - Blind, Black and Blue from 2018-03-19T14:21
There were many real blind, black bluesman, scraping a living in the Deep South a hundred years ago. From Blind Willie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson on opposite street corners in Dallas to Blin...
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Sunday Feature - Concerto: The One and the Many from 2018-03-15T16:39
Acclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale is fascinated by the concerto and how the role of the soloist has evolved from baroque times to now. In this Sunday Feature (exploring the theme of this year's F...
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Literary Pursuits - Jekyll and Hyde from 2018-02-26T11:26
Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of R.L. Stevenson's horror classic
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled from 2018-02-12T11:54
Robert Worby on how post-war German radio and new music were conscripted to fight the cultural cold war, juggling political, economic and cultural forces outside of their control.
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SUNDAY FEATURE THE 40 DAYS OF MUSA DAGH from 2018-01-29T16:22
In 1933 Franz Werfel's epic novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was published to huge acclaim. Werfel was then at the height of his powers, an internationally known author. He told the story of Arm...
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New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson from 2017-12-03T18:45
Alexander the Great's Tomb was famous and then it disappeared. Classical historian Edmund Richardson has spent the last few years following in the Macedonian's wake and admits to a growing obsessio...
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Resurrecting Mayakovsky from 2017-11-19T19:30
Ian Sansom attempts to resurrect the spirit of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Sunday Feature: Emigranti - 1917 Revisited from 2017-11-06T11:29
How do Russia's latest cultural émigrés feel about leaving their homeland? In Russia, culture is increasingly on the front line - many writers, theatre directors and academics feel stifled or under...
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A Flapper's Guide to the Opera from 2017-10-22T18:30
Opera Historian Dr Alexandra Wilson dons her cloche hat and steps into the shoes of a flapper for a journey back to 1920s London. Jazz was the new fad imported for America, dance clubs were taking ...
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Sunday Feature: John Tusa's Opera Journey from 2017-10-08T18:30
John Tusa revisits the provincial German towns where as a 19-year-old national serviceman he first discovered opera in 1955 and finds out why, 62 years on, it’s still thriving there. Back then,...
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Sunday Feature: Every County in the State of California from 2017-10-01T18:31
When Dana Gioia was appointed Poet Laureate of California in 2015 he was invited to read in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. But Gioia believes the role is to encourage poetry throughout ...
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Sunday Feature: The Killers from 2017-08-13T20:45
Adam Smith traces Ernest Hemingway’s brutal, brilliant short story - from its birth in gangster-era Chicago, through its Hollywood afterlife as a noir classic, to its strange status as Ronald Reaga...
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Edinburgh 70: Nothing Short of a Miracle from 2017-08-07T12:16
The Edinburgh Festival was founded 70 years ago in the aftermath of World War Two. 1947 was a year of shortages and rationing, and the idea of starting an arts festival in Scotland's capital city m...
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Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice from 2017-07-09T18:30
Forster's gay love story was a forbidden book, unpublished until his death.
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Canada 150: Geeking Glenn Gould from 2017-06-25T18:30
James Rhodes is a massive Glenn Gould Geek: throughout his childhood he listened to Gould's recordings, had posters of him on his bedroom walls, and in the years since, those recordings have helped...
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Sunday Feature: Monteverdi's Women from 2017-05-14T18:30
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
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Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution. Reformation 500 from 2017-05-08T15:49
Germany's celebrating 500 years since the Reformation - but what does it mean today? Chris Bowlby visits Wittenberg - where Martin Luther started it all in 1517. He discovers how the Reformation tr...
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A Square Dance in Heaven from 2017-05-02T15:58
The Rev Lucy Winkett goes on the trail of Martin Luther's musical reformation.
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v. is for Tony from 2017-04-24T13:08
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.
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Sunday Feature: I Know an Island from 2017-04-18T11:31
Jon Gower visits the island of Skokholm off the coast of south west Wales, and uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley, whose work inspired 'Watership Down'
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes from 2017-03-27T09:53
Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?
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Opera Across the Waves from 2017-03-12T19:30
How did opera become an art form consumed today by millions of people globally on computer screens, in cinemas and on the radio? And how, in particular, did New York's Metropolitan Opera become one...
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Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit from 2017-03-05T19:30
Kevin Le Gendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane
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Sunday Feature: Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle from 2017-02-06T16:55
The controversial French composer Boulez made three life-changing trips to South America.
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Music on the Brink of Destruction from 2017-01-22T12:47
In the Nazi camps and ghettos a vast range of music was created
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Apocalypse How from 2017-01-15T19:30
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on how different cultures have viewed the end of the world
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Sunday Feature:Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution from 2017-01-10T13:35
Christian Weikop, examines Kandinsky's Russian roots.
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Breaking Free: Freud versus Music from 2017-01-06T10:04
Listen in pop-out player Did Freud really dislike music as much as he professed? Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music. He talks to the American cultural ana...
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David Attenborough - World Music Collector from 2016-12-25T19:30
David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again
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Sunday Feature: Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde? from 2016-12-11T18:16
Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life ...
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New Generation Thinkers from 2016-11-13T19:30
1. Euphemism and Eroticism in Scottish Gaelic Songs. 2.Reappraising Nollekens.
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The secrets of the Music Reading Panel from 2016-10-09T18:30
What was the BBC's panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.
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Sunday Feature: Philip French and the Critical Ear from 2016-10-02T17:45
Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French
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The Envy of the World: Rudely Truncated from 2016-09-28T09:06
Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996
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The Envy of the World: No Fixed Points from 2016-09-28T08:49
Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.
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Dawn on the Somme from 2016-07-07T11:25
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part
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Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli from 2016-06-26T17:45
Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery, who may have inspired Conan Doyle's detective, and Freud's theory of the unconscious. Naomi Alderman investigates.
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An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936 from 2016-06-19T18:30
Ian McMillan on the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936,that changed everything
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Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala from 2016-06-15T11:31
Travelling to both Brazil and Milan, Fabio Zanon tells how Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian mixed-race composer, conquered La Scala in the 19th century, becoming a hero at home too.
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Literary Pursuits: Dubliners from 2016-06-05T18:15
Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.
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Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion from 2016-05-29T17:45
Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written. The novel has sometimes been viewed as Austen's valedictory novel - written while she was suffering with her...
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Sunday Feature: Arnold Wesker from 2016-05-15T18:30
Arnold Wesker, who died in April of this year,looking back at his life and career.
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Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip from 2016-04-25T11:40
Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet
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Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100 from 2016-04-17T18:30
Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.
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Brainwash Culture from 2016-03-13T19:30
If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick
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The Venice Ghetto from 2016-03-06T20:00
Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.
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Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide from 2016-02-21T19:30
Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.
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South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower from 2016-02-14T19:30
Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight
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Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail from 2016-01-31T20:00
Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916
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Charles Dickens: Great Expectations from 2016-01-10T20:00
Sarah Dillon goes on the hunt for the story behind how Great Expectations was written.
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Northern Lights: True Norse from 2015-12-13T20:00
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.
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Above Sixty, Below Zero from 2015-12-06T20:00
Lesley Riddoch examines the changing relationship between man and nature in the North.
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Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain from 2015-11-22T18:45
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain
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New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter&The Life and Life of Richard Baxter from 2015-11-15T15:11
The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter
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Hardy and the Animals and Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism? from 2015-11-08T19:30
Alasdair Cochrane on Thomas Hardy and animals; Will Abberley on evolutionary psychology.
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This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France from 2015-10-25T20:00
Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.
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How Celtic are We? from 2015-10-04T18:30
Cultural historian Dai Smith interrogates the Celtic myth.
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Why Music? from 2015-09-27T12:58
Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.
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Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60 from 2015-09-20T14:04
Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making&meanings of Rebel Without a Cause
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Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death? from 2015-06-28T18:35
Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing from 2015-06-21T18:30
Mary King investigates how advances in our anatomy knowledge are changing the way we sing
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Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity from 2015-06-07T18:30
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of W B Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
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Sunday Feature: Left-Handed Liberty from 2015-05-31T17:45
Amidst the 800 year celebrations for Magna Carta, Andrew Dickson hears about one of the more provocative theatrical attempts to commemorate the Charter from fifty years ago.
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John Berger - About Song and Laughter from 2015-05-05T12:07
Sukhdev Sandhu introduces a rare radio-minded feature by the celebrated critic, novelist and thinker John Berger. Now in his ninth decade, Berger talks about the songs in his life and about Charlie...
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Sunday Feature: In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna from 2015-04-26T17:45
Using diaries and memoirs Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the Congress of Vienna and how it still affects us 200 years later: diplomacy, Beethoven and sex... lots of sex.
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Sunday Feature: A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness from 2015-04-19T17:45
The leading German writer Uwe Johnson lived in Sheerness from 1974 until his death in 1984. Patrick Wright tries to find out why he chose what he called this 'much maligned' town.
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Sunday Feature Doing Goya Justice The Curators Story from 2015-04-15T09:56
Xavier Bray is a curator on a nail-biting journey to put together the greatest exhibition of portraits by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, which opens at the National Gallery later this year
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Sunday Feature: Memoirs of the Spacewomen from 2015-04-05T17:45
Matthew Sweet delves into the science fiction futures of Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. With music specially composed by The Vile Electrodes.
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Sunday Feature: From Convent to Concert Hall from 2015-03-10T11:49
Dr Kate Kennedy appraises four female string players from different eras and locations, who were all pioneering in their own lifetimes. For International Women's Day 2015
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Sunday Feature: The Day of the Locust from 2015-02-22T18:45
Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's great 1938 Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust, and tests its prophecy of fascist violence in America against postwar history.
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Sunday Feature: Cuba Clasica from 2015-02-16T11:50
Andrew McGregor visits Havana to investigate Cuba's classical music scene today.
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Sunday Feature: Eric Ravilious: Chalk&Ice from 2015-02-09T13:20
Eric Ravilious is considered one of the best watercolourists of the twentieth century. Alexandra Harris explores the life of work of this elusive man and his art.
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Sunday Feature: Palace of Shame from 2015-02-01T19:00
It's a story of loot, revenge and devastated beauty that looms over British-Chinese relations. Chris Bowlby uncovers the fate of the imperial summer palace in Beijing.
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Sunday Feature: Beautiful Death from 2015-01-25T19:45
Stephen Johnson connects Mahler's beliefs about death to Viennese funeral customs, and particularly the idea of 'beautiful death' which was pervasive in Mahler's Vienna.
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Andy Warhol's Factory Friends from 2015-01-19T10:25
Candy Darling and Edie Sedgwick are now the stuff of legend, but many of those with first-hand experience of Warhol's Factory live on. Paul Morley hears tales to amaze and inspire.
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Sunday Feature: Thom Gunn - Appropriate Measures from 2015-01-04T18:45
Author Colm Tóibín profiles the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, self-professed lover of "loud music, bars and boisterous men", whose tightly-wrought poetry imposed control and order upon his hedonis...
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Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties from 2014-12-28T18:45
Matthew is joined by historians and performers to explore World War 1 popular culture - from music hall to movies, theatre to night clubs and drugs. Recorded before an audience.
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Sunday Feature: The Supernatural North from 2014-12-14T19:30
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural icy world that haunts the imagination of writers including Philip Pullman and A.S. Byatt.
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Sunday Feature: The Fundamentalist Queen from 2014-12-11T12:02
Samira Ahmed explores the extraordinary rise and fall of the Lady Protectress Elizabeth, wife of Oliver Cromwell - a commoner who became "queen" in the 1650s.
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Sunday Feature: A Cultural History of the Plague from 2014-11-30T18:45
Laura Ashe tells the story of the Black Death and discovers how plague changed our cultural landscape, and influences our responses to current emergencies such as Ebola.
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Sunday Feature: In the Shadow of the Tower from 2014-11-23T19:30
Andrew Hussey travels across Paris to understand how the Eiffel Tower, and the huge World's Fair that gave birth to it, shaped French culture.
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Sunday Feature: God and the Great War from 2014-11-09T19:30
Frank Cottrell Boyce on the impact of the First World War on religion at home and at the Front.
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Kitty Marion and The Poetry of Science from 2014-11-03T11:33
Gregory Tate explores why many C19th scientists wrote poetry, as do several today. Fern Riddell rediscovers the astonishing life of Kitty Marion: singer, suffragette, firestarter.
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Enter the Dragon Chinese Theatre in the 21st century from 2014-10-20T16:17
Rana Mitter travels to Beijing to explore the recent flourishing of theatre in China and its re-invention as an art-form of youthful, urban cool.
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Sunday Feature: Who Was Richard Strauss? from 2014-10-12T18:30
Richard Strauss's works are staples of both concert hall and opera house, and yet relatively little is known or discussed of the man himself. What we do know about Strauss - that he was incredibly ...
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony from 2014-09-28T18:30
The second programme in Petroc Trelawny’s series looking at the new Global passion for classical music. In programme one his attention was on the dramatic new concert hall’s, opera houses and cul...
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I Have Been Here Before from 2014-09-15T14:50
Francis Spufford explores how An Experiment with Time, written by former soldier and aircraft designer J.W. Dunne, had a profound influence on J.B. Priestley and others for decades.
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The Devastation of British Art from 2014-08-08T20:30
Diarmaid MacCulloch tells the story of iconoclasm during the English Reformation.
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How Did Scotland's Artists Turn Nationalist from 2014-07-13T17:45
Scotland goes to the polls on the 18th September to decide its constitutional future. Why do so many of Scotland's writers and artists support the Yes Campaign? Stuart Kelly investigates.
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June 22: Bannockburn Begins from 2014-06-26T08:41
Novelist Louise Welsh explores some of the meanings, ancient and modern, of the battle of Bannockburn on its 700th anniversary
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Sunday Feature: Dennis Potter from 2014-06-15T18:00
The playwright Dennis Potter died twenty years ago. Matthew Sweet reassesses the legacy of the author of 'The Singing Detective' and 'Pennies from Heaven' and hears from his friends and colleagues,...
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Sonic Art Boom from 2014-06-08T18:30
Dan Jones, composer and sound designer, considers why it has taken so long for Sound Art to get a hearing, he goes hunting for sound at CERN with Bill Fontana, Janet Cardiff talks about her 40 pa...
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Sunday Feature: Dylan Thomas the Radio Poet from 2014-05-04T18:45
Writer Rachel Trezise - the first winner of the annual Dylan Thomas Prize - tells the story of Dylan Thomas's broadcasting life. Dylan Thomas often remarked that his poetry was written as much for ...
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Sunday Feature: Educating Isaac from 2014-04-28T16:36
Could your child compose like Mozart? While searching for a creative and fun way to teach his 3-year-old son, Nick Baragwanath discovered a forgotten history of music completely different from the ...
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Sunday Feature:Merchant Ivory from 2014-04-06T21:00
Style, flair, individuality, ideas... and stars. The filmic output of the remarkable three-person association of creative talents that is collectively known as 'Merchant Ivory' has endured since th...
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Sunday Feature: Music and the Jews (3/3) from 2014-03-23T19:30
Norman Lebrecht presents the last of three programmes examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity. Spanning thousands of years, from King David and the creation of the Psa...
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Music and the Jews (2/3) from 2014-03-20T16:00
Norman Lebrecht presents the second of three programmes examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity. Women, in the Jewish religion, are not meant to sing, and yet Jewish w...
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Music and the Jews (1/3) from 2014-03-19T16:00
Norman Lebrecht presents the first programme in a three-part series examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity. Spanning thousands of years, from King David and the creat...
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Shanghai World City Redux from 2014-01-26T18:45
Rana Mitter reveals how Shanghai today is forging its identity as an ultramodern city – by rediscovering its glamorous 1920s past, when 'Shanghai' meant movies, neon and jazz.
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Anything But Banal - the Fascination of the Villain from 2014-01-03T17:55
Paul Allen explores the allure of evil through great villains, from Hollywood baddies to Shakespearean antiheroes and real people, with great British actors, directors and writers.
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15th December: Ideas of Germany from 2013-12-15T18:45
Anne McElvoy finds out how those active in Germany's cultural world see the identity of Europe's largest and most powerful nation evolving.
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The Invisible Theatre from 2013-12-08T18:15
Tom Service and others explore the history of the festival theatre in Bayreuth that Wagner built for the staging of his music dramas.
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Sunday Feature: 1 December 2013 - Ken Adam Profile from 2013-12-03T16:45
Matthew Sweet meets Ken Adam, the 92-year-old designer of iconic sets from Dr No and Goldfinger to Doctor Strangelove and the Ipcress File.
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Albert Camus: Inside the Outsider from 2013-11-03T18:45
Professor Hussey celebrates the life, work and tragic death of literature's enigmatic Outsider Albert Camus, one hundred years on from his birth, and asks if the fatal car crash may have been a KGB...
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Sunday Feature - Production Line Living from 2013-10-27T18:45
How has the factory production line changed us? AL Kennedy finds out.
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Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood from 2013-09-23T14:08
Once upon a time Hollywood composers were classically schooled European maestros. Today many of the most successful ones are drawn from the world of pop and rock. In this documentary journalist Jon...
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Significant Others ep 2 from 2013-07-15T11:20
The thousand-year-old story of the Jewish presence in Poland was all but ended by the Nazis. But now a new Poland is experiencing an unexpected return of history and memory. Presented by author Ev...
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Sunday Feature - Stirring Up A Revolution from 2013-06-09T19:15
Author and journalist Tarek Osman returns to the Middle East to explore how the apparently unassuming establishment of the Café has served as a vibrant hub of change in the political tsunamis that ...
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Sunday Feature - Wagner: Making a National Hero from 2013-05-19T19:27
As part of Wagner 200, Stephen Johnson explores the worlds of Wagner's heroes, from Norse myths to his own Tannhauser, Siegfried and Parsifal. He charts how Wagner himself became a national hero.
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Jan Morris, Travels Round My House from 2013-05-13T10:00
Writer Anthony Sattin visits Jan Morris's Welsh home on the 60th anniversary of the ascent of Everest to talk about her role in the story and other tales to be gleaned about her life from the objec...
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Sunday Feature - Piano's Music Boxes from 2013-05-07T15:43
Renzo Piano is the architect behind the tallest building in Western Europe, The Shard at London Bridge. He grew up wanting to be a musician, and Tom Service discovers how he sees the basic elements...
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (3 of 3) from 2013-03-11T13:30
The Reverend Richard Coles visits Lincoln Cathedral, the focus of Medieval pilgrimage, to begin the last of his series exploring contemporary and historical ideas about sin. Having looked at the ce...
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (1 of 3) from 2013-03-11T11:40
In this first of three programmes, Richard explores what exactly is meant by sin, and its origins in man's earliest ethical structures.
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (2 of 3) from 2013-03-07T18:40
The Reverand Richard Coles explores notions of temptation and its part in contemporary and ancient societies.
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Margaret are you Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping from 2013-02-04T12:42
Throughout our cultural history, tears have been intimately connected with the arts, whether as inspiration or response. Thomas Dixon is director of the UK's first Centre for the History of the Emo...
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Modernism Redux from 2013-02-04T12:07
Will Self broadcasts an imaginary archive of modernist radio and discusses the influence of modernism today. In a secret laboratory underneath the BBC archive there is a small room containing a spe...
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A Brief History of Being Cold from 2013-01-29T17:48
Sunday Feature: Alexandra Harris presents a cultural history of the cold. With the help of writers including Simon Armitage, A.S. Byatt, Katherine Swift and Adam Gopnik Alex looks at the way our li...
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Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon from 2012-12-05T17:32
In 1812 Napoleon led his army to Moscow. In War and Peace Tolstoy gave his account of the great invasion, the battle of Borodino, and the subsequent burning of Moscow. Rosamund Bartlett, translator...
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The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits 1: Vortigern from 2012-10-15T22:00
Barry Cunliffe on the king whom history has often held responsible for inviting in the first Anglo-Saxons. First in a series of portraits of thirty ground-breaking Anglo-Saxon men and women.
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Sunday Feature: After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California from 2012-10-04T14:13
Californian poetry found fame with The Beats in the 1950s. Dana Gioia reveals developments since - Language, ecological, Hispanic poetry - and before, back to the Gold Rush.
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Piano Tales - A Social History of the Piano from 2012-09-25T17:05
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb explores the development and enduring appeal of the piano across social and geographic divides.
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Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past from 2012-09-13T16:13
Sunday Feature: Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past. Christine Finn excavates clues in the personal and public life of once acclaimed archaeologist and writer, Jacquetta Hawkes, to explain why s...
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Dr Adam Smith on Britain in the American Civil War from 2012-07-27T21:46
The American Civil War: Blockade Runners and Black Minstrels. What did Britain do in the American Civil War? Louise Welsh investigates blockade running, blackface minstrelsy, spy-wars and abolition...
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Dr Adam Smith on the dividing lines of the American Civil War from 2012-07-26T20:46
The American Civil War: Dividing Lines. Historian Adam Smith visits contemporary America to trace how the dividing lines of the Civil War are still visible beneath US politics 150 years on.
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Dr Adam Smith on the War of the North in America from 2012-07-25T21:00
The American Civil War: The War of the North. Dr Adam Smith travels from Lincoln's home town to Washington DC and the battlefields of Virginia as he asks why the North fought and what it won.
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Dr Adam Smith on the War of the South in America from 2012-07-25T16:21
The American Civil War: The War of the South. Dr Adam Smith travels to Richmond, the heart of the Southern Confederacy, to uncover the dramatic contradictions at the South's heart and the war it w...
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Historian Tristram Hunt on anti-imperialism. from 2012-07-20T21:50
Great British Ideas:J.A. Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how an anti-imperialist book by a liberal English journalist had a surprising impact on Lenin - in exile...
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Historian Tristram Hunt on England and Ireland in the 1840’s. from 2012-07-20T16:47
Great British Ideas: Young England and Young Ireland. Tristram Hunt traces the curious influence of the romantic 'Young England' movement, led by Benjamin Disraeli in the 1840s, on 'Young Ireland',...
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Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus from 2012-07-20T16:29
Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of the 18th century British economist Robert Malthus wreaked havoc in 19th century India, yet were later adopted by...
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George Reynolds - writer and contemporary of Dickens from 2012-07-01T19:00
Sunday Feature: The Other Dickens. Laurence Scott explores the work and the life of Victorian bad boy writer and contemporary of Dickens, George WM Reynolds, whose novels painted Victorian London's...
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Geneticist Steve Jones investigates the science of crowds from 2012-06-24T19:00
Sunday Feature: Crowd Psychology. From the summer riots last year to the Olympics 2012, geneticist Steve Jones investigates crowd behaviour and finds that modern science disputes myths of mad mobs...
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Andrew Graham Yooll examines Argentine identity from 2012-06-13T13:12
Sunday Feature: Malvinas Madness. Andrew Graham Yooll, former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, examines Argentine identity and dreams bound in their longing for the Malvinas or Falkland Islands.
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Phoenix Rising - The Story of Coventry Cathedral from 2012-05-28T15:04
Giles Fraser examines the history, ministry and artistic legacy of Coventry Cathedral as it celebrates its Golden Jubilee.
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Wesker at 80 from 2012-05-21T16:06
Sunday Feature: As Arnold Wesker celebrates his 80th birthday Matthew Sweet looks back with the celebrated playwright at his life and career.
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Europe - the Art of Austerity from 2012-05-03T13:27
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb talks to Anne Enright and Justin Cartwright about writers' responses to economic crisis in the Europe of the 1930s and today.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury on poet Vernon Watkins from 2012-03-16T13:30
Sunday Feature: Swansea's Other Poet. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams presents a portrait of Vernon Watkins, one of the twentieth century's most distinctive and brilliant - and ne...
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