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Sunday Feature Episodes

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    John Cage: Beyond Silence

    Richard Bernas explores the legacy of John Cage in music and beyond.

  2. Jacquetta Hawkes and the Personal Past

    Christine Finn examines the life and work of fellow archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.

  3. Think Negative!

    Patrick McGuiness celebrates nay-saying, refusal and creative contrariness.

  4. The Other Dickens

    Laurence Scott on Victorian novelist and contemporary of Dickens, George WM Reynolds.

  5. Crowd Psychology

    Geneticist Steve Jones investigates the science of crowds.

  6. Edward James and the Surreal Garden

    A strange tale of wealth, wilderness, family intrigue, surrealism and concrete, in Mexico.

  7. Malvinas Madness

    Andrew Graham Yooll asks what Argentinians' longing for the Falklands says about Argentina

  8. Suspended in Air

    Neuroscientist and writer David Eagleman explores the work of Italo Calvino.

  9. Phoenix Rising: The Story of Coventry Cathedral

    Giles Fraser examines the history, ministry and artistic legacy of Coventry cathedral.

  10. Arnold Wesker

    Matthew Sweet looks back at the life and career of playwright Arnold Wesker.

  11. The Heritage Wars

    Historian Dr Anna Whitelock explores how the heritage industry is battling for our money.

  12. AL Kennedy's Art and Madness

    Writer AL Kennedy questions the cliched link between madness and creativity.

  13. Immortal Dreams

    Professor Raymond Tallis explores the science and culture of immortality.

  14. Swansea's Other Poet

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, on the poetry of Vernon Watkins.

  15. The Poor Wore Yellow Stars

    Justin Champion on how 17th-century puritanism still influences thinking about the poor.

  16. An Olympick Vision

    Ed Smith explains why Britain's Olympic journey started 400 years ago - in the Cotswolds.

  17. Machines Like Us

    Paul Bennun explores the latest advances allowing computers to understand and imitate us.

  18. Bach and the Art of Bee-Keeping

    Kathryn Knight on common denominators and extramusical connections between Part and Bach.

  19. David Hockney - New Ways of Seeing

    Rachel Campbell-Johnston visits artist David Hockney in his Yorkshire studio.

  20. Tracing Beauty

    Ben Quash considers what we mean when we talk about beauty.

  21. Dee

    Poet Paul Farley explores John Milton's 'wizard stream' the River Dee, from source to sea.

  22. St Vitus Dance

    Frances Byrnes explores the Dance Plague of 1518, and dance mania throughout history.

  23. Barbara - The Inner Voice of France

    Norman Lebrecht explores the life and work of French icon, chanteuse and composer Barbara.

  24. In Search of Celia Sanchez

    An exploration of the life of Fidel Castro's most precious aide until her death in 1980.

  25. Walking With Attitude

    Travel writer Ian Marchant investigates 'psychogeography'.

  26. Three Centuries of the British Mosque

    Humayun Ansari from the University of London tells the story of mosques in Britain.

  27. Shostakovich: A Journey into Light

    Stephen Johnson on how the music of Shostakovich helped him survive clinical depression.

  28. A Poet in Bohemia

    David Vaughan traces the life and work of English poet Elizabeth Weston.

  29. Leonardo - Master of Ceremonies

    Charles Nicholl recreates Leonardo da Vinci's transient masterpieces.

  30. Hungary's Soul: Liszt and Gypsy Music

    Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes revisits Budapest in search of Liszt's gypsy music.

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