Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
Radio 3,·113 episodes
Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.
18 Nov 2018,·43 mins
Two features by R3 New Generation Thinkers. Dr Simon Beard and Dr Islam Issa
04 Nov 2018,·43 mins
Two Features by R3 New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck.
28 Oct 2018,·43 mins
Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation
22 Oct 2018,·43 mins
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.
15 Oct 2018,·43 mins
Simon Heffer argues for a new understanding of Sir Hubert Parry
08 Oct 2018,·43 mins
Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell.
24 Sep 2018,·43 mins
Actors Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones and Sylvester McCoy join David Bramwell to celebrate Ken
09 Sep 2018,·43 mins
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
13 Aug 2018,·43 mins
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.
09 Aug 2018,·43 mins
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley profiles the unique poet. (R)
07 Aug 2018,·43 mins,·
Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.
06 Aug 2018,·43 mins
Liliane Lijn explores the work of postwar French artist Yves Klein.
16 Jul 2018,·43 mins
How one of Britain's best known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
08 Jul 2018,·43 mins
Emma Smith on how coverage of gender in the arts might help us understand today's debate
01 Jul 2018,·43 mins
Might explorations of gender in great art of the past help illuminate today's issues?
24 Jun 2018,·43 mins
Once upon a time, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough woke up in the summer forest.
15 Jun 2018,·44 mins
David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again
21 May 2018,·43 mins
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
11 May 2018,·43 mins
06 May 2018,·43 mins,·
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two through movies.
03 May 2018,·43 mins
29 Apr 2018,·43 mins
An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.
22 Apr 2018,·43 mins
Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's virtually unknown - why?
16 Apr 2018,·43 mins
Paul Morley asks "Can there be too many artists in the world?"
08 Apr 2018,·43 mins
Why were so many of the early blues musicians in America's Deep South blind?
19 Mar 2018,·43 mins
Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.
15 Mar 2018,·43 mins
Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of R.L. Stevenson's horror classic
26 Feb 2018,·43 mins
Robert Worby on how post-war German radio was conscripted to fight the cultural cold war.
12 Feb 2018,·43 mins
Franz Werfel's 1933 novel The 40 Days of Musa Dagh was written as remembrance & warning.
29 Jan 2018,·43 mins
