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Agoraphobia
Writer Graham Caveney joins Matthew Sweet and guests.
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, Sport and science
Rachel Hewitt has been researching pioneering Irish climber Mrs Aubrey Le Blond.
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science
Rachel Hewitt has been researching the pioneering Irish climber Mrs Aubrey Le Blond.
Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe
Historian Hetta Howes, novelists Claire Gilbert and Victoria MacKenzie join Shahidha Bari.
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Shahidha Bari hears about two inspirational medieval women mystics who wrote about faith
Kingship and ceremony
Anne McElvoy looks at royalty, pomp and glory in opera, ancient Persia and Tudor England.
Sidney Poitier
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the career of Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier
Matthew Sweet and guests consider the career of the Bahamian-American actor (1927-2022)
Kingship and ceremony
Anne McElvoy looks at royalty, pomp and glory in opera, ancient Persia and Tudor England.
Sound, conflict and central heating
Matthew Sweet finds out how extreme temperatures changed Erland Cooper's music
