The Essay

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Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.


Episode Date
12/04/2024
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Apr 11, 2024
08/04/2024
Apr 11, 2024
Unravelling plainness
Mar 29, 2024
What does feminist art mean?
Mar 22, 2024
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Mar 22, 2024
Unravelling plainness
Mar 21, 2024
Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners
Mar 21, 2024
Arteries of tomorrow
Mar 21, 2024
The legacy of the laundries
Mar 21, 2024
From algorithms to oceans
Mar 21, 2024
Call Me Mother
Mar 18, 2024
Gas, oil and the Essex blues
Mar 14, 2024
From algorithms to oceans
Mar 14, 2024
Weird Viking Bodies
Mar 14, 2024
Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Mar 14, 2024
Call Me Mother
Mar 14, 2024
How Did They Do That? Magic and Mesmerism
Jan 11, 2024
Girls! Girls! Girls! Women in Variety
Jan 11, 2024
It's The Animal In Me: Animal Acts in Variety Theatre
Jan 11, 2024
Gokkle o’ Geer: Ventriloquists and their Dummies
Jan 11, 2024
Singing, Dancing and Having a Laugh: The Backbone of Variety
Jan 11, 2024
Christmas Pudding
Jan 05, 2024
Pavlova
Jan 05, 2024
Crème Brûlée
Jan 05, 2024
Summer Pudding
Jan 05, 2024
Tapioca
Jan 05, 2024
Khadijah Ibrahiim
Dec 14, 2023
Ian Duhig
Dec 14, 2023
Michelle Scally Clarke
Dec 14, 2023
Jeremy Dyson
Dec 14, 2023
Malika Booker
Dec 14, 2023
5. Return
Nov 24, 2023
4. Crossing
Nov 23, 2023
The Bison
Nov 23, 2023
The Beaver
Nov 23, 2023
The Wallabies
Nov 23, 2023
The Sea Eagle
Nov 23, 2023
The Reindeer
Nov 23, 2023
The Flat-Pack Cello
Nov 23, 2023
The Shipwrecked Cello
Nov 23, 2023
The Auschwitz Cello
Nov 23, 2023
The Bee Cello
Nov 23, 2023
The Soul of Music
Nov 23, 2023
3. Watching
Nov 22, 2023
2. Departure
Nov 21, 2023
1. Ears
Nov 20, 2023
Frida Kahlo's Broken Column
Sep 29, 2023
Field of Dreams
Sep 28, 2023
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Sep 27, 2023
Joan Williams
Jun 30, 2023
Philip Roth
Jun 29, 2023
Norman Mailer
Jun 28, 2023
Amiri Baraka
Jun 27, 2023
William Styron
Jun 26, 2023
Roy McFarlane on Bilston
Jun 16, 2023
R.M. Francis on Wren’s Nest, Dudley
Jun 15, 2023
Brendan Hawthorne on Toll End Road, Tipton
Jun 14, 2023
Emma Purshouse on St Bart’s Church, Wednesbury.
Jun 13, 2023
Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley
Jun 12, 2023
Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence
Jun 09, 2023
Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes
Jun 08, 2023
Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath
Jun 07, 2023
Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy
Jun 06, 2023
Naomi Alderman on Mary Wollstonecraft
Jun 05, 2023
Emilia Lanyer
May 05, 2023
Mohammed al-Annuri
May 04, 2023
Roderigo Lopez
May 03, 2023
Mary Fillis
May 02, 2023
Chinano 'the Turk'
May 01, 2023
Manteo
Apr 28, 2023
Aura Soltana
Apr 27, 2023
John Cabot
Apr 26, 2023
John Blanke
Apr 25, 2023
Lucy Baynham
Apr 24, 2023
Professor Dame Marina Warner on Othello
Apr 21, 2023
Sir David Hare on Macbeth
Apr 20, 2023
Michelle Terry on As You Like It
Apr 19, 2023
Professor Islam Issa on Julius Caesar
Apr 19, 2023
Sir Richard Eyre on King Lear
Apr 17, 2023
Children of the Waters
Apr 11, 2023
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Apr 06, 2023
A family of witches
Apr 05, 2023
Fighting the colour bar
Apr 05, 2023
Stupid Victorians
Apr 05, 2023
Children of the Waters
Apr 05, 2023
The discordant tale of Thomas Weelkes
Apr 05, 2023
Revolutionary free speech
Apr 05, 2023
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Apr 05, 2023
A family of witches
Apr 05, 2023
Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea
Apr 05, 2023
The South African Bloomsberries
Apr 05, 2023
WN Herbert
Apr 05, 2023
Reasons to Cycle
Mar 31, 2023
A Bike Ride
Mar 30, 2023
Cycling Apparel
Mar 29, 2023
The Cyclist as Overdog and Underdog
Mar 28, 2023
My Life on a Bike
Mar 27, 2023
Ben Cottam
Feb 24, 2023
Claire McGowan
Feb 22, 2023
Evie Wyld
Feb 21, 2023
Patrick Gale
Feb 20, 2023
Prepared Minds
Feb 13, 2023
Are we done?
Feb 13, 2023
In the Bottom of the Well
Feb 13, 2023
Where am I?
Feb 13, 2023
The Benefit of Doubt
Feb 13, 2023
Shinichi Sawada
Feb 09, 2023
Cape Malay South African Cuisine
Feb 09, 2023
Minnie Evans
Feb 09, 2023
South African Indian Food
Feb 09, 2023
Coloured South African Food
Feb 09, 2023
Black South African Cuisine
Feb 09, 2023
White South African Food
Feb 09, 2023
Mary Barnes
Feb 09, 2023
Madge Gill
Feb 09, 2023
Adolf Wölfli
Feb 09, 2023
1000 Coils of Fear
Feb 03, 2023
The Heir of Redclyffe
Feb 03, 2023
Tales from the Garbage Hills
Feb 03, 2023
Iola Leroy
Feb 03, 2023
The Paradise Crater
Feb 03, 2023
A Dying Breed
Jan 06, 2023
The Rebels
Jan 05, 2023
Class and the Convent
Jan 04, 2023
Liberated Women
Jan 03, 2023
Chastity and Lots of Praying
Jan 02, 2023
In the Lives of Salmon
Dec 19, 2022
In the Land of Reindeer
Dec 19, 2022
In the Company of Walruses
Dec 19, 2022
In the Country of Whales
Dec 19, 2022
In the Minds of Dogs
Dec 12, 2022
Unspoken Communication
Dec 02, 2022
Ownership of Communication
Dec 01, 2022
Visibility as Communication
Nov 30, 2022
Forms of Communication
Nov 29, 2022
Communication Withheld
Nov 28, 2022
1970s, Into the Mainstream
Nov 04, 2022
1950s and 60s, Performance in Period Style
Nov 03, 2022
1940s, New Life for Old Music
Nov 02, 2022
1930s, Creating a National Music
Nov 01, 2022
1920s, Reviving Old Ayres
Oct 31, 2022
Diversity
Oct 28, 2022
Radiophonia
Oct 27, 2022
A century of Juliets
Oct 26, 2022
Shakespeare in war and peace
Oct 25, 2022
Finding a way
Oct 24, 2022
Vaughan Williams - Amanda Dalton
Oct 14, 2022
Vaughan Willliams - Luke Turner
Oct 13, 2022
Vaughan Williams - Adrian McNally
Oct 12, 2022
Vaughan Williams - Dr Rommi Smith
Oct 11, 2022
Vaughan Williams - Clare Shaw
Oct 10, 2022
Alvin Pang
Sep 30, 2022
Anil Pradhan
Sep 29, 2022
Isabelle Baafi
Sep 28, 2022
Roy McFarlane
Sep 27, 2022
Tishani Doshi
Sep 26, 2022
Casey Bailey
Sep 23, 2022
Naush Sabah
Sep 22, 2022
Professor Thomas Glave
Sep 21, 2022
Dr Shahed Yousaf
Sep 20, 2022
Helen Cross
Sep 19, 2022
Christopher Laing
Sep 16, 2022
Robert Adam
Sep 15, 2022
Deepa Shastri
Sep 14, 2022
Tina Kelberman
Sep 13, 2022
Sign Language through the Ages (Robert Adam)
Sep 12, 2022
Beats
Jul 01, 2022
Musicians
Jun 30, 2022
Artists
Jun 29, 2022
Writers
Jun 28, 2022
Actors
Jun 27, 2022
Miracle
Jun 24, 2022
The Lives of Others
Jun 23, 2022
Going for a Walk
Jun 22, 2022
Windows
Jun 21, 2022
Moments of Being
Jun 20, 2022
Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho
Jun 17, 2022
Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë
Jun 16, 2022
Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall
Jun 15, 2022
Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats
Jun 14, 2022
Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde
Jun 13, 2022
Pause for Thought
May 05, 2022
A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age Paris
Apr 29, 2022
African cinema, nationhood, and liberation
Apr 25, 2022
Opium Tales
Apr 25, 2022
Alexander and the Persians
Apr 25, 2022
The Paradox of Ecological Art
Apr 25, 2022
John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for Freedom
Apr 25, 2022
Ruffs in Jamestown
Apr 25, 2022
Contesting an Alphabet
Apr 25, 2022
Walking with the Ghosts of the Durham Coalfield
Apr 25, 2022
Boy with a Pearl Earring
Mar 07, 2022
Uniforms - An Alternative History
Mar 07, 2022
Drama, Dressing-up and Droopy & Browns
Mar 07, 2022
In a Handbag
Mar 07, 2022
Body Armour
Mar 07, 2022
Nuala O'Connor on Penelope
Feb 04, 2022
Mary Costello on Ithaca
Feb 03, 2022
Colm Tóibín on Sirens
Feb 02, 2022
John Patrick McHugh on Calypso
Feb 01, 2022
Anne Enright on Telemachus
Jan 31, 2022
Euphoria
Dec 10, 2021
Chalk on the Wall
Dec 09, 2021
The Art of Staying
Dec 08, 2021
Searching with Shorelines
Dec 07, 2021
Traybakes
Dec 06, 2021
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Nov 05, 2021
Voices in the Dark
Nov 04, 2021
The Wake
Nov 03, 2021
Island Isolation
Nov 02, 2021
The Great White Silence
Nov 01, 2021
Himiko: Shaman Queen
Jul 30, 2021
Murasaki Shikibu: Imperial Insider
Jul 29, 2021
Oda Nobunaga: Warlord
Jul 28, 2021
Tezuka Osamu: Godfather of Manga
Jul 27, 2021
Daimatsu 'The Demon' Hirobumi
Jul 26, 2021
King Zog - And Time to Leave
Jul 12, 2021
Scoop
Jul 12, 2021
North and South
Jul 12, 2021
Tirana
Jul 12, 2021
Setting Off
Jul 12, 2021
Colin Grant on VS Naipaul
Jul 02, 2021
Jen McDerra on Gladys Lindo
Jul 01, 2021
Kei Miller on Louise Bennett
Jun 30, 2021
Paul Mendez on Andrew Salkey
Jun 29, 2021
Sara Collins on Una Marson
Jun 28, 2021
Vera Hall
May 14, 2021
Robert McFerrin
May 13, 2021
Eric Bentley
May 12, 2021
Leontyne Price
May 11, 2021
Marian Anderson
May 10, 2021
In Praise of Flatness
Apr 30, 2021
A Norwegian Morality Tale
Apr 29, 2021
Beyond the Betting Shop
Apr 28, 2021
Colonial Papers
Apr 27, 2021
Battlefield Finds
Apr 26, 2021
The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far
Apr 25, 2021
Hoarding or Collecting?
Apr 23, 2021
A Social History of Soup
Apr 21, 2021
New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress
Apr 20, 2021
New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
Apr 19, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Mar 19, 2021
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
Mar 18, 2021
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Mar 17, 2021
John Halifax, Gentleman
Mar 16, 2021
The Black Lizard
Mar 15, 2021
England and the Touch of Rain
Mar 05, 2021
Paris and the Look of Rain
Mar 04, 2021
Australia and the Smell of Rain
Mar 03, 2021
Japan and the Taste of Rain
Mar 02, 2021
India and the Sound of Rain
Mar 01, 2021
Wind
Feb 12, 2021
Ivories
Feb 11, 2021
Impression
Feb 10, 2021
Romance
Feb 09, 2021
Enlighten
Feb 08, 2021
The acting coach
Feb 05, 2021
How reality TV has changed acting
Feb 04, 2021
On stage and on screen
Feb 03, 2021
How to become an actor?
Feb 02, 2021
What is good acting?
Feb 01, 2021
The Essex Way
Jan 29, 2021
Brightening from the East
Jan 28, 2021
The Refusal of Place
Jan 27, 2021
Washed Up in Essex
Jan 26, 2021
Metropolitan Essex
Jan 25, 2021
Jess Gillam on Bach
Dec 11, 2020
Jumoké Fashola on Nina Simone
Dec 10, 2020
Ian Skelly on Jean Mouton
Dec 09, 2020
Elizabeth Alker on Sofia Gubaidulina
Dec 09, 2020
Hannah French on Barbara Strozzi
Dec 09, 2020
Sonny Rollins
Nov 21, 2020
Stan Tracey
Nov 20, 2020
Americans in Britain
Nov 19, 2020
The British Audience
Nov 19, 2020
On Not Being a Jazzer
Nov 19, 2020
Cape Town
Oct 26, 2020
Fort-de-France
Oct 26, 2020
Kingston
Oct 26, 2020
Philadelphia
Oct 26, 2020
Marseille
Oct 26, 2020
The woman with the spoon
Oct 16, 2020
The man with the pipe
Oct 15, 2020
The man with the French horn
Oct 14, 2020
The boy with the monkey on his back
Oct 13, 2020
The man with the ship on his head
Oct 13, 2020
Metacom
Sep 18, 2020
Susanna White-Winslow
Sep 17, 2020
John Alden
Sep 17, 2020
Squanto
Sep 15, 2020
400 years on
Sep 14, 2020
Egyptian Satire
Jul 09, 2020
Pogroms and Prejudice
Jul 09, 2020
Prison Break
Jul 01, 2020
Facing Facts
Jun 28, 2020
Facing Facts
Jun 28, 2020
Not Quite Jean Muir
Jun 26, 2020
Digging Deep
Jun 26, 2020
Tudor Virtual Reality
Jun 25, 2020
Coming out Crip and Acts of Care
Jun 25, 2020
Berlin, Detroit, Race and Techno Music
Jun 25, 2020
The Holy Island
Jun 09, 2020
Barra
Jun 09, 2020
Staffa
Jun 09, 2020
Jura
Jun 09, 2020
Mingulay
Jun 09, 2020
Ian Sansom: Mince on Toast with Christopher Isherwood
May 29, 2020
Ian Sansom: Cheese Dreams with Graham Greene
May 28, 2020
Helen Mort: More Than Enough
May 27, 2020
AL Kennedy: Hope On, Hope Ever
May 26, 2020
AL Kennedy: The Towers We Founded and the Lamps We Lit
May 25, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 10.Aida Edemariam
May 22, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 8.Michael Morpurgo
May 21, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 9.David Constatine
May 21, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 7. Evie Wyld
May 19, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 6.David Almond
May 18, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 5. Alice Oswald
May 08, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 4.Tessa Hadley
May 07, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 3. Tahmima Anam
May 06, 2020
The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 2.Inua Ellams
May 05, 2020
They Essay - Let Me Take You There 1
May 04, 2020
Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 5. Joe Hill
Apr 15, 2020
Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 4. Zog Nit Keynmol
Apr 15, 2020
Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 3. The Canoe Song
Apr 15, 2020
Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 1. No More Auction Block
Apr 15, 2020
Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 2. Ol' Man River
Apr 15, 2020
The Preseli Mountains
Mar 21, 2020
Epynt
Mar 20, 2020
The Brecon Beacons
Mar 18, 2020
The Black Mountains
Mar 17, 2020
Snowdonia
Mar 16, 2020
Margaret Oliphant
Feb 28, 2020
Lady Mary Wroth
Feb 28, 2020
Storm Jameson
Feb 28, 2020
Charlotte Turner Smith
Feb 28, 2020
Yolande Mukagasana
Feb 28, 2020
Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda
Feb 14, 2020
Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza
Feb 14, 2020
Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls
Feb 12, 2020
Michael Donkor - On Wandsworth Bridge
Feb 11, 2020
Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston
Feb 11, 2020
10: The Resurrection
Jan 31, 2020
9: The Missing
Jan 30, 2020
8: The Echo
Jan 29, 2020
7: The Love Story
Jan 28, 2020
6: The Persona
Jan 27, 2020
5: The Deserter
Jan 24, 2020
4: The Living Artwork
Jan 23, 2020
3: The Most Hated Art Critic in France
Jan 22, 2020
2: The Boxer
Jan 21, 2020
1: The Poet
Jan 20, 2020
Philippa Gregory on Jane Eyre
Dec 27, 2019
Elif Shafak on Anna Karenina
Dec 26, 2019
AL Kennedy on The Wind in the Willows
Dec 25, 2019
Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs Dalloway
Dec 24, 2019
Ian Rankin on Lord of the Flies
Dec 23, 2019
Dance Till You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen - Episode 5
Nov 29, 2019
Dance Till You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen - Episode 4
Nov 28, 2019
Dance Till You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen - Episode 3
Nov 27, 2019
Dance Till You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen - Episode 2
Nov 26, 2019
Dance Till You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen - Episode 1
Nov 25, 2019
John Ocansey
Nov 22, 2019
Mary Prince and Sally Hemings
Nov 21, 2019
Sarah Forbes Bonetta
Nov 20, 2019
Isaac
Nov 19, 2019
Philip Quaque
Nov 18, 2019
Episode 5
Nov 15, 2019
Episode 4
Nov 14, 2019
Episode 3
Nov 13, 2019
Fiery the Angels Fell - David Thomson
Nov 13, 2019
Zhora and the Snake - Dr Beth Singler
Nov 13, 2019
The Year of Blade Runner 3: More Human Than Human - Ken Hollings
Nov 13, 2019
The Year of Blade Runner 2: Sounds of the Future Past
Nov 13, 2019
Los Angeles 2019
Nov 13, 2019
Episode 2
Nov 12, 2019
Episode 1
Nov 11, 2019
Philip Hoare - The Haunted Sea
Sep 27, 2019
Ed Vulliamy - Forever Young
Sep 26, 2019
Wendy Erskine - Knock Knock, Who's There?
Sep 25, 2019
Stephen Sexton - The Tory Islanders
Sep 24, 2019
Sinead Gleeson - Pain, Borders and Averting Our Gaze
Sep 23, 2019
Mirkwood
Sep 09, 2019
The Wood Beyond the World
Aug 26, 2019
Scents of the Forest
Aug 22, 2019
Outlaws of the Forest
Aug 20, 2019
Forest Folk
Aug 19, 2019
Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue
Aug 16, 2019
Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis
Aug 15, 2019
Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger
Aug 08, 2019
Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen
Aug 06, 2019
Penny Gore on Leoš Janáček
Aug 05, 2019
Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley
Aug 02, 2019
John Toal on Maurice Ravel
Aug 01, 2019
Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu
Jul 31, 2019
Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams
Jul 24, 2019
Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube
Jul 22, 2019
Rame Head Chapel
Jul 12, 2019
Trinity Theatre
Jul 11, 2019
Malcolm's Place, Uig, Isle of Lewis
Jul 10, 2019
The Dead Dad Show
Jul 10, 2019
Dodo
Jul 10, 2019
Rochdale Town Hall
Jul 09, 2019
Glasgow School of Art
Jul 08, 2019
The Hard Man in the Call Centre
Jun 21, 2019
'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The History of the Three-Piece Suit
Jun 20, 2019
Comrades in Arms
Jun 19, 2019
The Well-Groomed Georgian
Jun 18, 2019
Sword to Pen: Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir
Jun 18, 2019
Le Festival de Men
Jun 14, 2019
Every Night
Jun 13, 2019
Reluctant Spirit
Jun 12, 2019
Daniel Hahn
May 31, 2019
Alys Conran
May 30, 2019
Alex Wheatle
May 29, 2019
Horatio Clare
May 28, 2019
Fiona Stafford
May 27, 2019
Swimming the Avon
May 17, 2019
The Power of the Thames
May 16, 2019
The Art of Zen Fly Fishing
May 15, 2019
Medway Mudlarks
May 15, 2019
Gaelic Waters
May 15, 2019
Dear William...
May 03, 2019
Dear Marianne ...
May 02, 2019
Dear Oscar...
May 01, 2019
Dear Mary...
Apr 30, 2019
Dear Dante...
Apr 29, 2019
Where Do Human Rights Come From?
Apr 12, 2019
Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
Apr 10, 2019
Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Apr 09, 2019
Shopping Around the Baby Market
Apr 04, 2019
Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Apr 03, 2019
Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Apr 02, 2019
A City is not a Park
Apr 01, 2019
Woman on the Edge of Time
Mar 08, 2019
The Female Man
Mar 07, 2019
Herland
Mar 06, 2019
Mizora: A Prophecy
Mar 05, 2019
Three Hundred Years Hence
Mar 04, 2019
Cary Grant
Feb 15, 2019
Joel McCrea
Feb 14, 2019
Charles Boyer
Feb 13, 2019
Frederic March
Feb 12, 2019
Clark Gable
Feb 11, 2019
Make Some Noise
Feb 08, 2019
Your Master's Voice
Feb 07, 2019
Words, Words, Words
Feb 06, 2019
Not Killing Conversation
Feb 05, 2019
Voices, Voices, Everywhere
Feb 04, 2019
25/01/2019
Jan 25, 2019
24/01/2019
Jan 24, 2019
23/01/2019
Jan 23, 2019
22/01/2019
Jan 22, 2019
21/01/2019
Jan 21, 2019
Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche
Jan 11, 2019
Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale
Jan 10, 2019
Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy
Jan 08, 2019
Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jan 07, 2019
Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn
Jan 07, 2019
Harold Godwinson
Jan 04, 2019
Edward the Confessor
Jan 03, 2019
Aethelred the Unready
Jan 02, 2019
The Smith - Gold and Black
Jan 01, 2019
Alfred the Great
Dec 31, 2018
Bede, the Father of English History
Dec 28, 2018
The Beowulf Bard
Dec 27, 2018
Eadfrith the Scribe
Dec 26, 2018
Cuthbert
Dec 25, 2018
King Raedwald
Dec 24, 2018
Dear Caravaggio
Nov 16, 2018
Dear Frida Kahlo
Nov 15, 2018
Dear Julia Margaret Cameron
Nov 14, 2018
Dear Picasso
Nov 13, 2018
Dear Albrecht Dürer
Nov 12, 2018
Episode 4
Nov 08, 2018
Episode 3
Nov 07, 2018
Episode 2
Nov 06, 2018
Episode 1
Nov 05, 2018
Ted Hughes and Tenderness
Oct 26, 2018
Ted Hughes and the River of Time
Oct 25, 2018
Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia
Oct 24, 2018
Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters
Oct 24, 2018
Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin
Oct 23, 2018
100 Acre Wood
Oct 19, 2018
The Jungle Book
Oct 18, 2018
Brothers Grimm
Oct 16, 2018
Origins
Sep 24, 2018
Artists
Sep 24, 2018
Disorder
Sep 24, 2018
Family
Sep 24, 2018
Fate
Sep 24, 2018
Why the Lloyd George museum is so small
Sep 21, 2018
Devils
Sep 20, 2018
Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms
Sep 19, 2018
Ma-Hw
Sep 18, 2018
Dinogad's Jerkin – The oldest lullaby in Britain
Sep 17, 2018
Joan Crawford
Aug 20, 2018
St Kilda
Aug 15, 2018
Rum
Aug 14, 2018
Iona
Aug 13, 2018
Jean Harlow
Aug 10, 2018
Barbara Stanwyck
Aug 09, 2018
Katharine Hepburn
Aug 07, 2018
Dear Agatha Christie...
Jul 20, 2018
Dear Virginia Woolf...
Jul 19, 2018
Dear George Eliot...
Jul 18, 2018
Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...
Jul 16, 2018
Sonny's Blues
Jul 01, 2018
The Wings of the Dove
Jul 01, 2018
Never Let Me Go
Jul 01, 2018
To The Lighthouse
Jul 01, 2018
The Underground Railroad
Jul 01, 2018
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights
Jun 29, 2018
John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet
Jun 28, 2018
Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia
Jun 27, 2018
The Forgotten German Princess
Jun 26, 2018
Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler
Jun 25, 2018
Forest Fire
Jun 22, 2018
Forests of the Imagination
Jun 18, 2018
Mab Jones on Jane Eyre
Jun 01, 2018
Francesca Rhydderch on Orlando
May 31, 2018
Fiona Sampson on Mother Courage
May 30, 2018
Bettany Hughes on Helen of Troy
May 29, 2018
Afua Hirsch on Maggie Tulliver
May 28, 2018
Rome
May 21, 2018
New York
May 21, 2018
Berlin
May 21, 2018
Tirana
May 21, 2018
The Shopping News: Paris
May 21, 2018
Japan Refusal
Apr 27, 2018
The Art of the Heist
Apr 26, 2018
Rebranding the Buddha
Apr 25, 2018
Happy Families
Apr 24, 2018
Deer Cry Hall
Apr 23, 2018
Secret Admirers: Kate Molleson on Eliane Radigue
Apr 20, 2018
Secret Admirers: Andrew McGregor on Thomas Tallis
Apr 19, 2018
Secret Admirers: Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger
Apr 18, 2018
Secret Admirers: Tom McKinney on Olivier Messiaen
Apr 17, 2018
Secret Admirers: Penny Gore on Leoš Janáček
Apr 16, 2018
Episode 3
Apr 11, 2018
Episode 2
Apr 10, 2018
Episode 1
Apr 09, 2018
Inua Ellams on Terry Pratchett
Apr 06, 2018
Alastair Campbell on 'Madame Bovary'
Apr 05, 2018
Zarah Hussain on The Arabian Nights
Apr 04, 2018
Henry Marsh on 'War and Peace'
Apr 03, 2018
Afua Hirsch on 'Wide Sargasso Sea'
Apr 02, 2018
Paul Morley
Mar 30, 2018
Jameela Siddiqi
Mar 29, 2018
Professor Kofi Agawu
Mar 28, 2018
Professor Alice Roberts
Mar 27, 2018
Sir Roger Scruton
Mar 26, 2018
What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
Mar 23, 2018
Kids With Guns
Mar 22, 2018
Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
Mar 21, 2018
When Shakespeare Travelled with Me
Mar 20, 2018
A War of Words
Mar 19, 2018
Doing Nothing
Mar 16, 2018
Educating Ida
Mar 15, 2018
Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?
Mar 15, 2018
Art for Health's Sake
Mar 14, 2018
Welling Up: Women and Water in the Middle Ages
Mar 14, 2018
The Last Wolf
Feb 23, 2018
The Great Glen
Feb 22, 2018
The Moss Lairds
Feb 20, 2018
The Dark Years
Feb 19, 2018
Louise Welsh
Feb 09, 2018
Val McDermid
Feb 08, 2018
Janice Galloway
Feb 07, 2018
Kate Clanchy
Feb 06, 2018
Ali Smith
Feb 05, 2018
Lavinia Greenlaw
Feb 02, 2018
Rachel Cooke
Feb 01, 2018
Nicholas Shakespeare
Jan 31, 2018
Lauren Elkin
Jan 30, 2018
James Fox
Jan 29, 2018
Clay Bricks
Jan 12, 2018
Gypsum and Alabaster
Jan 11, 2018
North Sea Oil and Gas
Jan 10, 2018
Lewisian Gneiss
Jan 09, 2018
Flint
Jan 08, 2018
Watershed
Jan 05, 2018
Hafod Eryri
Jan 04, 2018
Chingle Hall
Jan 03, 2018
Gladstone's Library
Jan 02, 2018
Wigmore Hall
Jan 01, 2018
Dear Dante
Nov 27, 2017
Dear Mary Shelley
Nov 27, 2017
Dear Oscar Wilde
Nov 27, 2017
Dear William Trevor
Nov 27, 2017
Dear Marianne Moore
Nov 27, 2017
10 Eisenstein
Nov 17, 2017
9 Moisei Ginzburg
Nov 16, 2017
8 The State Porcelain Factory
Nov 16, 2017
7 Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva
Nov 15, 2017
6 Mosolov
Nov 14, 2017
5 Tatlin
Nov 13, 2017
4 Meyerhold
Nov 10, 2017
3 Nijinsky
Nov 09, 2017
2 John Reed, Eye-Witness
Nov 08, 2017
1 Choices
Nov 07, 2017
Memory and the landscape
Oct 13, 2017
The Tricks of Memory
Oct 12, 2017
The Fallibility of Memory
Oct 11, 2017
False Memories
Oct 10, 2017
Touching the Void
Oct 09, 2017
My Mother's House
Oct 06, 2017
Books and Letters
Oct 05, 2017
Decluttering
Oct 04, 2017
Tidy Home, Tidy Mind
Oct 04, 2017
Moving House
Oct 04, 2017
Robert Frost's 'Design'
Sep 29, 2017
Sylvia Plath's 'Cut'
Sep 28, 2017
Elizabeth Bishop's 'Large Bad Picture'
Sep 26, 2017
Michael Donaghy's 'The Hunter's Purse'
Sep 25, 2017
Seamus Heaney's 'The Underground'
Sep 25, 2017
John Siddique
Aug 14, 2017
There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)
Jul 11, 2017
Dining with the Nightmare
Jul 07, 2017
A Tale of Restoration Murder, Barbarous and Inhumane
Jul 06, 2017
Resisting Tyranny
Jul 05, 2017
A Focus on Fasting
Jul 04, 2017
A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding
Jul 03, 2017
Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump
Jun 23, 2017
Mata Hari's Final Performance
Jun 22, 2017
Siegfried Sassoon's Letter to The Times
Jun 21, 2017
Gertrude Bell
Jun 20, 2017
Marcel Duchamp
Jun 19, 2017
Philip Melanchthon
May 04, 2017
Johann Walther
May 04, 2017
Katharina von Bora
May 04, 2017
Thomas Muntzer
May 04, 2017
Martin Luther
May 04, 2017
Late Style: Penelope Lively
Apr 28, 2017
Sex Shops
Apr 28, 2017
Late Style: Douglas Dunn
Apr 27, 2017
Late Style: Diana Hendry
Apr 26, 2017
Vicki Feaver
Apr 26, 2017
Late Style: Paul Bailey
Apr 25, 2017
The Milkman
Apr 20, 2017
The Telephone
Apr 19, 2017
The Ventriloquist Doll
Apr 18, 2017
The Boating Pond
Apr 17, 2017
Killing Time in Imperial Japan
Mar 31, 2017
England's First European
Mar 29, 2017
Russia's Sacred Ruins
Mar 24, 2017
Creating Modern India
Mar 24, 2017
The Magic Years
Mar 23, 2017
Faith, Fire and the Family
Mar 23, 2017
The British Writer and the Refugee
Mar 23, 2017
Alexander the Great's Lost City
Mar 21, 2017
In the Shadows of Biafra
Mar 21, 2017
Monks, Models and Medieval Time
Mar 20, 2017
Bette Davis
Mar 10, 2017
Naomi Alderman
Feb 10, 2017
John Walsh
Feb 09, 2017
Philip Hoare
Feb 08, 2017
Rachel Cooke
Feb 07, 2017
Colin Thubron
Feb 06, 2017
Skin
Feb 03, 2017
Black and White: Messrs Smith and Carlos and Norman
Feb 02, 2017
Black and White: Yin and Yang
Feb 01, 2017
Black and White: Words on the Page
Jan 31, 2017
Black and White: Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics
Jan 30, 2017
The Essay - Gun Culture -The Howth Mauser
Jan 27, 2017
The Essay - Gun Culture - Sniper
Jan 26, 2017
The Essay: Gun Culture: Pistols At Dawn
Jan 25, 2017
The Essay: Gun Culture: Gotham's Gun Baron
Jan 24, 2017
Taking Aim - Renaissance-style
Jan 23, 2017
Billy Liar
Jan 20, 2017
This Sporting Life
Jan 19, 2017
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Jan 18, 2017
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Jan 17, 2017
Room at the Top
Jan 14, 2017
Cornerstones: Chalk
Jan 13, 2017
Cornerstones: Fire Rocks
Jan 12, 2017
Cornerstones:Coal
Jan 11, 2017
Cornerstones:Millstone
Jan 10, 2017
Cornerstones: Quartz
Jan 09, 2017
Bethany Bell
Jan 06, 2017
Tom McKinney
Jan 05, 2017
Gillian Moore
Jan 04, 2017
Stephen Johnson
Jan 03, 2017
Sarah Walker
Jan 02, 2017
The Further Realm: Episode 5
Dec 16, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 4
Dec 15, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 3
Dec 14, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 2
Dec 13, 2016
The Further Realm: Episode 1
Dec 13, 2016
Time
Dec 09, 2016
Books
Dec 09, 2016
Politics
Dec 07, 2016
Words
Dec 05, 2016
Memory
Dec 05, 2016
Dear Agatha Christie...
Nov 11, 2016
Dear Virginia Woolf...
Nov 10, 2016
Dear George Eliot...
Nov 09, 2016
Dear Jonathan Swift...
Nov 08, 2016
Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...
Nov 07, 2016
Sir Richard Eyre
Nov 04, 2016
Tacita Dean
Nov 03, 2016
Ben Anderson
Nov 02, 2016
Pauline Black
Nov 01, 2016
David Simon
Oct 31, 2016
Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she worked.
Oct 14, 2016
Queensferry Crossing, Scotland
Oct 13, 2016
Chesterfield's Crooked Spire, Derbyshire
Oct 12, 2016
Impington College, Cambridge
Oct 11, 2016
288a Main Road
Oct 11, 2016
The Rise and Fall of the Hairdresser
Oct 01, 2016
Strindberg and 'the Woman Question'
Oct 01, 2016
Telephone Terrors
Oct 01, 2016
Partitioned Memories
Oct 01, 2016
Food: Are We What We Eat?
Oct 01, 2016
Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower
Sep 30, 2016
Gervase Phinn: On the Camino de Santiago
Sep 29, 2016
Edwina Currie: A Ferry Across the Mersey
Sep 28, 2016
Michael Rosen: On the Trail of DH Lawrence
Sep 27, 2016
Lisa Appignanesi: A Visit to the Savoy Hotel
Sep 26, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven on the Scottish islands
Sep 23, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
Sep 22, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
Sep 21, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven on Scottish island life
Sep 20, 2016
Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
Sep 19, 2016
Donald Sturrock on the events that made the man and writer
Jul 15, 2016
Michael Rosen on the exuberance of Dahl's poetry
Jul 14, 2016
Laura Dockrill on Dahl's heroine Matilda
Jul 14, 2016
Jeremy Dyson on the delicious lure of Dahl's adult fiction
Jul 14, 2016
Frank Cottrell Boyce on flying and myth-making
Jul 11, 2016
Daljit Nagra - On your 'A 1940 Memory'
Jul 06, 2016
Jackie Kay - Private Joseph Kay
Jul 06, 2016
Bill Manhire - Known unto God
Jul 06, 2016
Yrsa Daley-Ward - When your mother calls you, come
Jul 06, 2016
Paul Muldoon - July 1st 1916, with the Ulster Division
Jul 05, 2016
Get Playing: Alexander McCall Smith on the saxophone and the Really Terrible Orchestra
Jun 10, 2016
Get Playing: Peter Bradshaw's electric guitar
Jun 09, 2016
Get Playing: Poet Fiona Sampson on playing the violin
Jun 08, 2016
Get Playing: Joanne Harris on playing the flute and bass guitar
Jun 07, 2016
Alistair McGowan on playing the Piano
Jun 06, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Emma Smith
Jun 03, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: David Crystal
Jun 02, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton Hill
Jun 01, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Jon Gower
May 31, 2016
The Art of Storytelling: Edmund de Waal
May 30, 2016
Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon
May 27, 2016
Lines of Work: Journalist Helen Lewis on John Milton
May 26, 2016
Lines of Work: Soldier Harry Parker on Ulysses S Grant
May 25, 2016
Lines of Work: Theatre Critic Susannah Clapp on Oscar Wilde
May 25, 2016
Lines of Work: Teacher Francis Gilbert on Rousseau
May 25, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare Beyond London
Apr 29, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India
Apr 28, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England
Apr 27, 2016
Shakespeare 400. Joan Fitzpatrick on Wolf All? Shakespeare and food
Apr 27, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation
Apr 26, 2016
Shakespeare 400. James Loxley on Undiscovered Countries: Shakespeare and the Nation
Apr 26, 2016
Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes
Apr 25, 2016
Minds at War: Sean O'Casey's "The Silver Tassie"
Apr 15, 2016
Minds at War: Father Browne's war photograph
Apr 14, 2016
Minds at War: "O' Connell Street"
Apr 13, 2016
Minds at War: "The Last September"
Apr 12, 2016
Minds at War: "Ulysses"
Apr 11, 2016
Lucy Hughes Hallett
Mar 25, 2016
Ian Sansom
Mar 24, 2016
Kamila Shamsie
Mar 23, 2016
Nicola Barker
Mar 22, 2016
Nicholas Shakespeare
Mar 21, 2016
Inspiring Women in Music: Zoe Martlew
Mar 09, 2016
Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham
Mar 09, 2016
Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam
Mar 09, 2016
Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu
Mar 08, 2016
Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly
Mar 07, 2016
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Mar 04, 2016
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
Mar 03, 2016
Shostakovich: Symphony No 5
Mar 02, 2016
Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Mar 01, 2016
Mahler's Symphony No 8
Feb 29, 2016
Rachel Joyce on Bronte as a Literary Star
Feb 26, 2016
Jane Shilling on I Shall Soon Be Thirty
Feb 26, 2016
I Am, Yours Sincerely, C Bronte: Lyndall Gordon on Charlotte Bronte and Robert Southey
Feb 24, 2016
Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte in Belgium
Feb 23, 2016
Claire Harman on Charlotte Bronte, Governess
Feb 18, 2016
Lovers
Jan 29, 2016
Family
Jan 28, 2016
Friends
Jan 27, 2016
My Generation
Jan 26, 2016
Strangers
Jan 25, 2016
Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
Jan 15, 2016
F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
Jan 14, 2016
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
Jan 13, 2016
Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse
Jan 12, 2016
James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1
Jan 11, 2016
Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone?
Jan 07, 2016
Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs
Jan 06, 2016
Ivan Hewett on Brian Eno's Music for Airports
Jan 06, 2016
Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Jan 05, 2016
Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"
Jan 05, 2016
Art in a Cold Climate: Thomas Hylland Eriksen on the Holmenkollen Ski-Jumping Hill
Dec 18, 2015
Art in a Cold Climate: Ray Hudson on Touching Fire by Carolyn Reed
Dec 17, 2015
Art in a Cold Climate: Elizabeth Hay on Painting Place III by David Milne
Dec 17, 2015
Art in a Cold Climate: Hallgrimur Helgason on Fish Processing in Eyjafjord by Kristin Jonsdottir
Dec 17, 2015
Art in a Cold Climate: Mette Moestrup on Pia Arke's Camera Obscura
Dec 17, 2015
Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Alaska
Dec 11, 2015
Cornerstones: Siberia
Dec 10, 2015
Cornerstones: Greenland Caves
Dec 09, 2015
Cornerstones - The Canadian Arctic
Dec 08, 2015
Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland
Dec 07, 2015
Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities
Oct 23, 2015
Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots
Oct 23, 2015
Homage to Caledonia: Morality and Misery
Oct 23, 2015
Homage to Caledonia: GSOH
Oct 23, 2015
Homage to Caledonia: Scots Abroad
Oct 23, 2015
Middletown
Oct 02, 2015
Mr Average
Oct 01, 2015
Working 9 to 5
Sep 30, 2015
Small, Medium and Large
Sep 29, 2015
On the Average
Sep 28, 2015
Dar es Salaam - Ubhuche, Invisible Histories of the First World War
Jul 02, 2015
Delhi - Parting Words
Jul 02, 2015
Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists
Jul 02, 2015
Washington - Safe for Democracy
Jul 02, 2015
Sydney - Stories that Bind
Jul 02, 2015
Akhmatova's July 1914
Jun 26, 2015
Parade
Jun 25, 2015
Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
Jun 24, 2015
Tzara's Dada Manifesto
Jun 23, 2015
Tagore's Nobel Lectures
Jun 23, 2015
Kirsteen McCue
Jun 19, 2015
Adam Nicolson
Jun 19, 2015
Andrea Stuart
Jun 19, 2015
Julia Blackburn
Jun 18, 2015
Of Miracle, of Magic
Jun 12, 2015
The View from the Tower
Jun 11, 2015
The Second Coming of the Second Coming
Jun 10, 2015
Not Liking Yeats
Jun 09, 2015
Yeats by Heart
Jun 08, 2015
Brigadoon
Jun 05, 2015
Unthank
Jun 04, 2015
Duncairn
Jun 03, 2015
Thrums
Jun 02, 2015
Show Me the Way to Tillietudlem
Jun 01, 2015
Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke
May 29, 2015
Hay Festival: Frank Cottrell Boyce
May 28, 2015
Hay Festival: Horatio Clare
May 27, 2015
Hay Festival: Alex Clark
May 26, 2015
Hay Festival: Daniel Hahn
May 25, 2015
Some Kind of Genius
May 01, 2015
F for Fake
Apr 30, 2015
Why Citizen Kane Matters
Apr 29, 2015
He that Plays the King
Apr 28, 2015
Boy Wonder
Apr 27, 2015
Je suis un table
Apr 24, 2015
Sid James
Apr 17, 2015
Tony Hancock
Apr 16, 2015
Terry-Thomas
Apr 15, 2015
Alastair Sim
Apr 15, 2015
Will Hay
Apr 15, 2015
Lead Us Not into Temptation
Apr 03, 2015
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Apr 02, 2015
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Apr 01, 2015
Thy Kingdom Come...
Mar 31, 2015
Art in Heaven
Mar 30, 2015
Jimmy Rowles
Mar 20, 2015
Sonny Rollins
Mar 19, 2015
Ruby Braff
Mar 18, 2015
Marian McPartland
Mar 17, 2015
Doc Cheatham
Mar 16, 2015
Philip Hoare
Mar 13, 2015
Kamila Shamsie
Mar 12, 2015
Marcus O'Dair
Mar 11, 2015
Antonia Quirke
Mar 10, 2015
Christopher Hope
Mar 09, 2015
Betty Freeman
Mar 06, 2015
Mary Gladstone
Mar 05, 2015
Leopoldine Wittgenstein
Mar 04, 2015
Lady Maud Warrender
Mar 03, 2015
Nadezhda von Meck
Mar 02, 2015
Raymond Tallis
Feb 27, 2015
Temple Grandin
Feb 26, 2015
Quentin Skinner
Feb 25, 2015
Kier-La Janisse
Feb 24, 2015
Matthew Sweet
Feb 23, 2015
The Tichborne Claimant
Feb 20, 2015
The Broom Cottages
Feb 19, 2015
The Dogon
Feb 18, 2015
The Nebula in Orion
Feb 17, 2015
Anna Bertha's Hand
Feb 16, 2015
Just Juvenilia: Roger Michell
Feb 13, 2015
Just Juvenilia: Stephen Coates
Feb 12, 2015
Just Juvenilia: Janet Suzman
Feb 11, 2015
Just Juvenilia: Harland Miller
Feb 11, 2015
Just Juvenilia: Deborah Moggach
Feb 09, 2015
Castles in Concrete
Jan 30, 2015
The British Castle: A Woman's Place
Jan 29, 2015
The Siege of Kenilworth
Jan 28, 2015
Castle Builders
Jan 27, 2015
Power and Control
Jan 26, 2015
Lolita Chakrabarti on A Tale of Two Cities
Jan 22, 2015
Jon Ronson on What a Carve Up!
Jan 21, 2015
Jude Kelly on Little Women
Jan 20, 2015
Steve Earle on In Cold Blood
Jan 19, 2015
So Near to Venice
Jan 17, 2015
The Writing on the Wall
Jan 17, 2015
Tinseltown
Jan 17, 2015
At Home
Jan 17, 2015
Lucy Jones: Crawling to Glory
Jan 09, 2015
Goya, Klee, Matisse: Leaving the Best till Last?
Jan 08, 2015
Arturo Bispo do Rosario: The Sculptor Who Saved the World
Jan 07, 2015
The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce - What Would I Do If I Didn't Paint?
Jan 06, 2015
The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker
Jan 05, 2015
Dresden - Targets
Jan 02, 2015
Sarajevo - Divine Uncertainty
Jan 01, 2015
London - Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells
Dec 31, 2014
St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution
Dec 30, 2014
Paris: The Christmas Truce
Dec 29, 2014
Greece
Dec 19, 2014
Italy
Dec 18, 2014
Spain
Dec 17, 2014
France
Dec 16, 2014
England
Dec 15, 2014
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Fi Glover
Nov 28, 2014
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Roger Phillips
Nov 27, 2014
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: David Hendy
Nov 26, 2014
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Olivia O'Leary
Nov 26, 2014
Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Samuel West
Nov 26, 2014
Luke Johnson on The Magic of Thinking Big
Oct 24, 2014
Malorie Blackman on The Color Purple
Oct 23, 2014
Simon McBurney on And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Oct 22, 2014
Tracey Thorn on The Female Eunuch
Oct 21, 2014
Alan Johnson on David Copperfield
Oct 20, 2014
Alchemy and Magic
Oct 12, 2014
Three Lives
Oct 12, 2014
Women
Oct 12, 2014
Letters
Oct 11, 2014
The Discovery
Oct 11, 2014
Brahms and the Future
Oct 10, 2014
Brahms and Freud
Oct 09, 2014
Brahms and Germany
Oct 08, 2014
Brahms and Nature
Oct 07, 2014
Public Brahms, Private Brahms
Oct 06, 2014
The Firebird
Sep 26, 2014
Bach: St Matthew Passion
Sep 25, 2014
Scenes from Childhood
Sep 24, 2014
Victoria: Lamentations
Sep 23, 2014
Haydn: Symphony No 100 (Military)
Sep 22, 2014
Beckett and the Wake
Sep 19, 2014
Lost in Translation
Sep 18, 2014
Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written
Sep 17, 2014
Beckett's Living Dead
Sep 16, 2014
A Body of Becketts
Sep 15, 2014
Slate
Sep 04, 2014
Granite
Sep 03, 2014
Sandstone
Sep 02, 2014
Limestone
Sep 01, 2014
A Matter of Life and Death
Jul 23, 2014
The Red Shoes
Jul 21, 2014
Jeanette Winterson
Jul 11, 2014
Xiaolu Guo
Jul 11, 2014
Daniel Kehlmann
Jul 11, 2014
Colm Toibin
Jul 08, 2014
Elif Shafak
Jul 07, 2014
Black Narcissus
Jul 05, 2014
The Grieving Parents
Jul 04, 2014
The Broken Wing
Jul 03, 2014
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
Jul 02, 2014
Battleship Potemkin
Jul 01, 2014
Le Feu
Jun 30, 2014
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Jun 27, 2014
The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science
Jun 26, 2014
Der Krieg
Jun 25, 2014
Non-Combatants and Others
Jun 24, 2014
Paths of Glory
Jun 23, 2014
Holguin
Jun 20, 2014
Asmara
Jun 20, 2014
Makhachkala
Jun 18, 2014
Kunming
Jun 17, 2014
Hobart
Jun 17, 2014
Dylan's Bardic Heritage
May 09, 2014
Dylan Over the Pond
May 08, 2014
Tracing Dylan's Pathway
May 07, 2014
A Childhood Encounter with Dylan
May 06, 2014
Crossing Dylan's Boundaries
May 05, 2014
Dan Cruikshank on Robert Adam
May 02, 2014
Martin Rowson on William Hogarth
May 01, 2014
Amanda Vickery on Elizabeth Parker Shackleton
Apr 30, 2014
Ian Kelly on David Garrick
Apr 29, 2014
Claire Tomalin on Dora Jordan
Apr 28, 2014
An Intimate History of the Bed
Apr 12, 2014
Old Mother Hubbard and the Cabinet of Curiosity: The Story of Storage
Apr 10, 2014
Who's Been Sitting in My Chair? Our Shadow Selves
Apr 08, 2014
'Whereyouwanttogoto' - The Wardrobe and the Other World
Apr 08, 2014
Philip Hoare in Sholing
Apr 04, 2014
Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland
Apr 03, 2014
John Walsh
Apr 02, 2014
Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds
Apr 01, 2014
Michele Roberts in Poznan
Mar 31, 2014
Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Hildegard of Bingen
Mar 21, 2014
Martin Handley on Malcolm Arnold
Mar 20, 2014
Lucie Skeaping on Thomas Ravenscroft
Mar 19, 2014
Tom Service on Arnold Bax
Mar 19, 2014
Sarah Walker on John White
Mar 19, 2014
Tolu Ogunlesi
Mar 14, 2014
Farah Ghuznavi
Mar 13, 2014
Noah Richler
Mar 12, 2014
Fakir Aijazuddin
Mar 12, 2014
Dr Sue Onslow
Mar 12, 2014
Lubna of Cordoba
Feb 17, 2014
Episode 19
Feb 14, 2014
Salah al-Din
Feb 13, 2014
Cities of Learning
Feb 12, 2014
Ibn Rushd
Feb 11, 2014
Al-Ghazali
Feb 10, 2014
Al Hakim
Feb 07, 2014
Al-Biruni
Feb 06, 2014
Islamic Architecture
Feb 05, 2014
Avicenna
Feb 03, 2014
On Sunday Church-Going
Jan 31, 2014
On the Joys of Manual Work
Jan 30, 2014
On the Old Rules, or Gentility
Jan 29, 2014
On Not Eating Too Much
Jan 28, 2014
On Not Boasting
Jan 27, 2014
Don Paterson
Jan 17, 2014
Moniza Alvi
Jan 16, 2014
Michael Longley
Jan 16, 2014
Vicki Feaver
Jan 14, 2014
Michael Symmons Roberts
Jan 14, 2014
London
Jan 10, 2014
St Petersburg
Jan 09, 2014
Berlin
Jan 08, 2014
Paris
Jan 07, 2014
Vienna
Jan 07, 2014
Seeing the Future
Dec 20, 2013
Long, Slow Journey through the Night
Dec 19, 2013
Doctoring the Evidence
Dec 18, 2013
Behind the Eyes
Dec 17, 2013
Let There Be Dark
Dec 16, 2013
Al-Farabi
Dec 06, 2013
Al-Tabari
Dec 05, 2013
Al-Kindi
Dec 04, 2013
Al-Khwarizmi
Dec 03, 2013
Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi
Dec 02, 2013
Harun al-Rashid
Nov 29, 2013
Paper
Nov 28, 2013
Imam Bukhari
Nov 27, 2013
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Nov 26, 2013
The Establishment of the Islamic State
Nov 25, 2013
Cubism
Nov 21, 2013
Le Grand Meaulnes
Nov 20, 2013
Alcools
Nov 19, 2013
Swann's Way
Nov 19, 2013
Emmy van Deurzen
Nov 15, 2013
Gary Walkow
Nov 14, 2013
Michele Roberts
Nov 13, 2013
Paul Hart
Nov 12, 2013
Naomi Alderman
Nov 11, 2013
Glenn Patterson
Oct 18, 2013
Nuala Hayes
Oct 17, 2013
Brian McGilloway
Oct 16, 2013
Neil Cowley
Oct 15, 2013
Susan McKay
Oct 15, 2013
Matthew Sweet
Oct 04, 2013
David Thomson
Oct 03, 2013
Camille Paglia
Oct 02, 2013
Miklos Rozsa
Oct 01, 2013
The Sounds of Early Cinema
Sep 30, 2013
I Know Where I'm Going
Sep 27, 2013
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Sep 24, 2013
Yield to the Night
Sep 24, 2013
Mandy
Sep 24, 2013
The Long Memory
Sep 24, 2013
The Browning Version
Sep 24, 2013
It Always Rains on Sunday
Sep 24, 2013
Mike Figgis
Jul 12, 2013
Josie Rourke
Jul 11, 2013
Bartlett Sher
Jul 10, 2013
Emma Rice
Jul 09, 2013
Roger Michell
Jul 08, 2013
Justin Cartwright - Christmas
Jun 21, 2013
Alexander McCall Smith - Episodic Writing
Jun 20, 2013
AL Kennedy - No Hope of Return
Jun 19, 2013
Romesh Gunesekera - The Orphan Eye
Jun 18, 2013
Tessa Hadley - Rooms and Reality
Jun 17, 2013
Wagner and Adorno
May 24, 2013
Wagner and Nietzsche
May 23, 2013
Wagner and Schopenhauer
May 22, 2013
Wagner and the Philosophy of Revolution
May 21, 2013
Wagner and German Idealism
May 20, 2013