Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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The Gospels Come Home
Author David Almond explores what the Lindisfarne Gospels mean to people in the North East
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Stirring Up a Revolution
Tarek Osman explores the significance of the caf茅 and how it has shaped the Middle East.
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Burma: Art under Dictatorship
Rex Bloomstein investigates Burma's cultural life at a time of extraordinary transition.
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A Cultural History of Syphilis
Writer Sarah Dunant explores the social, cultural and human histories of syphilis.
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Wagner - Making a National Hero
Stephen Johnson explores Wagner's heroes and charts how Wagner became a national hero.
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Jan Morris - Travels Round My House
Jan Morris, who first reported the conquest of Everest, looks back on her adventures.
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Renzo Piano's Music Boxes
Tom Service investigates how architect Renzo Piano uses music to inspire his buildings.
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Along the Highland River
Poet Kenneth Steven goes to the source of Neil Gunn's novel Highland River.
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Staying Bright - A Century Of Stainless Steel
The poet Simon Armitage explores the cool and compelling heart of stainless steel.
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50 Years of the Traverse Theatre
Joyce McMillan on the past, present and future of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, now 50.
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RS Thomas - Always Seeking Greater Silence
Jon Gower explores poet RS Thomas's life and work through the prism of birdwatching.
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The Ideas that Shaped the Baroque
Professor Tim Blanning explores the shifting ideas that nurtured and shaped the Baroque.
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Modernism Redux
Will Self rebroadcasts an imaginary archive of modernist radio.
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Margaret Are You Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping
Thomas Dixon explores the history of weeping as an aesthetic response to works of art.
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A Brief History of Being Cold
Alexandra Harris presents a cultural history of the cold from the Anglo-Saxons to today.
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Edouard Manet: The Direct Gaze
Fiona Shaw unlocks the gaze of the women in Edouard Manet's famous impressionist painting.
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Verdi 200: Viva Verdi
Roger Parker explores Verdi's status as an Italian national figure.
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Stop Calling Me 'Doctor Sex'
Matthew Sweet uncovers the extraordinary career of Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex.
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Reader Meet Author
Exploring unexpected literary influences on Byron, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf.
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Wilde's West Coast Collection
Thomas Wright examines books in California, auctioned off from Oscar Wilde's own library.
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Way off the Beaten Track
Stephen Smith asks if it matters if travel writing is unreliable.
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Queen's University - Belfast Built
The history of Queen's University in political, cultural and intellectual life in Belfast.
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The Dragon with Two Tongues
Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the modern revival of Welsh language.
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Kashmir - the Flower of India
Jatinder Verma reports on the cultural life of Kashmir after decades of political strife.
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Renouncing India
Jatinder Verma reports from India on how asceticism still matters in a modernising state.
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After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California
Dana Gioia traces developments in Californian poetry since the Beats in the 1950s.
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A Social History of the Piano
Michael Goldfarb explores the three-hundred-year history of the piano.
