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Sunday Feature Episodes

  1. Harvesting the Archive

    Jamie Andrews looks through the works writer John Berger donated to the British Library.

  3. James Young Deer - The Winnebago Movie-Maker

    Matthew Sweet tracks a Native American movie-maker from California to the London of 1914.

  4. Myths and Mystery Cycles

    John Sessions explores a research project rewriting the story of early English drama.

  5. Tracking the Aryans

    Bettany Hughes tells the troubled story of the search for the ancient Aryans.

  6. John Henry Newman: A Very English Saint?

    Edward Stourton explores the life and legacy of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

  7. After a Dancemaker Dies

    Frances Byrnes asks whether dances can or should survive the deaths of choreographers.

  8. In Search of Gustav Mahler

    Norman Lebrecht talks to those whose lives have been touched by the music of Mahler.

  9. Goethe's Oak

    Christopher Cook pieces together the story of the ancient Goethe's Oak tree in Buchenwald.

  10. Looking for Leonora

    Joanna Moorhead traces the life of celebrated surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.

  11. Coleridge in Gottingen

    John Worthen walks in the footsteps of Coleridge as the poet visited Gottingen in 1798.

  12. Robert Schumann and the Music of the Future

    Steven Isserlis reappraises the music Schumann wrote in the last years of his life.

  13. The First English Opera

    Claire van Kampen goes in search of the lost operatic masterpiece The Siege of Rhodes.

  14. I Come From There: The Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish

    Harriett Gilbert explores the life and work of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

  15. The Pleasure Telephone

    The story of how the early telephone was used to broadcast live news and entertainment.

  16. Theatre at the Front Line

    Zeinab Badawi reports from Khartoum on theatre groups helping those caught up in conflict.

  17. The Glasgow Boys

    AL Kennedy on the work and legacy of the 'Glasgow Boys', Scotland's first modern artists.

  18. A World Beyond Narnia

    Louise Doughty explores the growth of the young adult fiction market in the UK.

  19. John Dankworth in South Africa

    The story of John Dankworth's return to South Africa after a gap of 50 years.

  20. Field Work

    Marybeth Hamilton tells the story of the invention of ethnographic fieldwork.

  21. From Gameboy to Armageddon

    Ken Hollings tells the cultural history of war-gaming: from Kriegspiel to virtual war.

  22. Sinan the Magnificent

    Jonathan Glancey tells the astonishing story of Ottoman court architect Koca Mimar Sinan.

  23. Turkey in Europe

    Dennis Marks investigates why some nations are resisting Turkey joining the EU.

  24. Songs of Trebizond

    Tom De Waal on the history of Pontic Greek culture in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

  25. Seven and a Half Years

    Susannah Clapp explores Chekhov's obsession with memory and being forgotten.

  26. At Cupids Cove: The First English Settlement in Canada

    Sean Street tells the story of Cupids Cove, the first English settlement in Canada.

  27. In Search of the Gododdin

    Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the sixth-century Welsh poem the Gododdin.

  28. Rona

    Poet Kathleen Jamie joins a research expedition to the uninhabited island of North Rona.

  29. Tasty!

    Cultural historian Richard Weight explores how we decide what is tasty.

  30. Closer to Blood than Ink

    Nick Rankin on how Neruda saved thousands from the Spanish Civil War. But was he a hero?

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