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58 minutes
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein look at the birth of 19th-century music hall, the colourful world of its entertainers and the audiences whose lives were changed by it. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Poldark screenwriter Debbie Horsfield, the contemporary appeal of HG Wells, punk activist and entrepreneur Joe Corre and Antarctic artist in residence Lucy Carty. Show more
Helen Castor examines how the transformation of the rights and role of women that have taken place in Great Britain over the last 100 years has been documented on television. Show more
Victorian society is often viewed as buttoned up and prudish. Historian and author Dr Fern Riddell holds the opposite view and takes us on a journey deep into Victorian culture. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro on 1606, Matthew Sweet, Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton on the new Macbeth film, and Barrie Keeffe on a revival of his 1977 play Barbarians. Show more
Historian Fern Riddell and composer Debbie Wiseman on why the piano is essentially erotic while psychologist Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith explore obsessive love. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Nick Payne talks to Anne McElvoy about the man who stole Einstein's brain, we review TV's Penny Dreadful and Helen McCarthy and Pauline Neville-Jones discuss female diplomats. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With a discussion about a new survey of sexual behaviour, Nick Broomfield on his latest documentary and Matt Rubery on the history of the audiobook. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Fern Ridell, Shahida Rahman and Miranda Garrett discuss the history of women's suffrage with Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Show more
58 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Woman's Hour Power List 2018: women in music, MI6 recruiting, a profile of suffragette Kitty Marion, morality in Young Adult Fiction, sourdough baking and Vanessa Kimbell. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Sarah Perry and Carol Birch on setting their novels in the 19th century, plus Victorian amusements and the 19th century in modern culture. Show more
