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Dr Kylie Murray illustrates her enthusiasm for textual annotations and argues that they're as important in the digital world as they've ever been. Show more
Ken Hollings discusses Karel Capek's 1921 play R.U.R., a 'comedy of science and truth' about the end of mankind and its overthrow by robots in the far-flung 1950s. Show more
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An exploration of Beethoven’s music through the body that gave him so much trouble. Presented by Georgia Mann and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. Show more
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Errollyn Wallen unravels how classical music fused with local musical traditions across the British Commonwealth, speaking to acclaimed conductor Zubin Mehta and others. Show more
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How German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen took 25 years to write LICHT, seven operas based on the days of the week, that still continue to divide his critics and fans. Show more
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Restoring the life of George Bridgetower to history - mixed-raced violin virtuoso and muse to Beethoven. Show more
Puppetry has seen a rise in interest during the pandemic. Noreen Masud reflects on what the puppet's gaze can give that the human gaze cannot. Show more
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Dai Smith explores the meaning of Celtic identity, focusing on genetics, the Celtic language and the shared history that holds the six Celtic nations of the British Isles together. Show more
Writer Jeet Thayil follows in the footsteps of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who travelled round India in the early 60s inspiring the hippy generation's passion for Indian culture. Show more
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Susan Greaney and the Jomon Connection. Show more
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Jazz writer, social historian, acclaimed photographer - over six decades, Val Wilmer has become a world figure in the history of African-American musical culture. What drives her? Show more
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Anja Thauer was once known as Germany’s Jacqueline du Pré. After her suicide in 1973, her story was lost. It’s revealed to be a tragic tale of a prodigy and an ambitious mother. Show more
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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? Show more
Dr Seren Griffiths takes a short walk on a sandstone ridge in Cheshire to connect thousands of years of human history, from Iron Age hill fort to Cold War listening posts. Show more
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Dr Noreen Masud deploys her expertise in aphorisms ancient and modern to test how effective this miniature artform is in our shoutingly clipped digital age. Show more
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Daisy Black, Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, investigates the camp villain in history, from King Herod to 21st-century pantomime. Show more
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Tracing the activities of four unlikely wartime propagandists, Graham Greene, George Orwell, AL Lloyd and Laurie Lee, through the corridors of the Senate House Building in London. Show more
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Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's not well known. Andrew Dickson puts the spotlight on the man on whom the foundations of theatre are built. Show more
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Writer, journalist and broadcaster Afua Hirsch investigates the fascinating story of 'Fire!!', a short-lived literary magazine from the Harlem Renaissance published in 1926. Show more
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Kate Kennedy reveals how life in a largely forgotten First World War German internment camp shaped the course of early 20th-century classical music. Show more
