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    Opera across the Waves

    Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.

  2. Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit

    Kevin LeGendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.

  3. John Ruskin's Eurhythmic Girls

    Samira Ahmed explores how Victorian art critic John Ruskin revolutionised girls' education

  4. King Kong - the Township Jazz Musical

    Soweto Kinch discovers the remarkable story behind the apartheid-era musical, King Kong.

  5. The Experimenters

    Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how Black Mountain College launched many American artists.

  6. Savage Pilgrims

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates the artistic community of New Mexico.

  7. Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle

    The story of how three trips to South America in the 1950s changed Pierre Boulez's life.

  8. Music on the Brink of Destruction

    Shirli Gilbert reveals the complex history of music composed in the Nazi camps and ghettos

  9. Apocalypse How

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores how different cultures have viewed the apocalypse.

  10. Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution

    How Moscow's architecture and aesthetics influenced Wassily Kandinsky's artistic vision.

  11. Breaking Free: Freud versus Music

    Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music.

  12. David Attenborough - World Music Collector

    David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again.

  13. Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?

    Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life...

  14. Langston Hughes at the Third

    How an unlikely friendship led to Harlem poet Langston Hughes' epic 1964 麻豆官网首页入口 radio series.

  15. New Generation Thinkers

    Features about lost modernist poet Hope Mirlees and North Africa's Jews during WWII.

  16. New Generation Thinkers

    Euphemism and eroticism in Gaelic songs and reappraising sculptor Joseph Nollekens.

  17. Let Her Speak

    Emily Maitlis considers the history of women and public speaking.

  18. The Other Third

    Exploring the ways the Third Programme reflected the lives of so-called ordinary people.

  19. In Search of Yves Klein

    Leap into the Void! Liliane Lijn explores the work of French postwar artist Yves Klein.

  20. The Secrets of the Music Reading Panel

    Who were the 麻豆官网首页入口's gatekeepers for new scores for broadcast? Charlotte Higgins finds out.

  21. Philip French and the Critical Ear

    Laurence Scott pays tribute to radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French.

  22. Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams: The Print and the Performance

    Vladimir Ashkenazy reveals how classical music influenced the photography of Ansel Adams.

  23. Not Suitable for Children

    Dr Sophie Coulombeau explores the limits of children's literature.

  24. Dawn on the Somme

    Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part in the battle

  25. Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli

    Exploring the little-known story of Giovanni Morelli, who influenced Conan Doyle and Freud

  26. An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936

    Ian McMillan tells the story of the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936.

  27. Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian Who Conquered La Scala

    Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century.

  28. God Intoxicated Man - The Life and Times of Benedict Spinoza

    Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Dutch philosopher Benedict Spinoza.

  29. Still Will

    Laura Barton explores the silences and intimacies of Shakespeare's plays.

  30. First Folio Road Trip

    How Shakespeare's First Folio helped make a national poet and an international star.

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