Tom Goodman-Hill reads from Joseph Roth's novel Rebellion. Set in Berlin after World War I, it features the anti-hero Andreas Pum, who attempts to woo the widow Blumich. Show more
Lucy Duran with a tribute to Radio 3's 2008 World Music Americas Award winner Andy Palacio, a Belizean singer/guitarist who died early in 2008. With Palacio's producer Ivan Duran. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy talks to Son de la frontera about their particular style of flamenco, Justin Adams and Chinese musicians Sa Dingding give Lucy Duran their views on world music. Show more
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was an avant-garde icon. Tom Service talks to Stockhausen's family, friends and collaborators to find out what marked him out as a pioneer. Show more
Akram Zaatari explores the photographic archives of Studio Shehrazade - half a million images that document 50 years of life in Lebanon through the lives of the people of Saida. Show more
Art critic Louisa Buck explores the reasons why artists down the centuries have painted picnics, taking in Titian, Manet and Picasso and moving up to artists such as Matt Collishaw. Show more
Kathleen Jamie tries to discover why, all around the coast of the British Isles, as well as inland, there can be found the remains of whales. Show more
A profile of the New York Philharmonic, one of the world's oldest orchestras. With contributions from its president, orchestral players and current music director Lorin Maazel. Show more
Stuart Kelly tells how in 1826, publisher John Murray II's attempts to create a newspaper to rival The Times, led to financial disaster and a life-long feud. Show more
Mark Bazeley reads Kurt Vonnegut's cautionary tale about eavesdropping. A well-intentioned act by a young boy who overhears the couple next door arguing unleashes chaos. Show more
Tom Service is joined by Messiaen scholars Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone, and artistic director of the Netherlands Opera Pierre Audi to discuss Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi. Show more
Catherine Bott talks to critic, writer and broadcaster Roderick Swanston and theatre historian Sarah Lenton to examine the creation of Handel's Belshazzar. Show more
Paul Bailey tells the story of Romanian Jewish playwright, novelist and music lover Mihail Sebastian, who wrote a journal charting Romania's Nazi collaboration. Show more
Philip Hammond explores the depth of the friendship between composer, pianist and teacher Howard Ferguson, and composer Gerald Finzi, in Ferguson's centenary year. Show more
Tom Service talks to French organist Olivier Latry about his role as a titulaire des Grandes Orgues at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, discussing his work on five continents. Show more