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Sunday Feature Episodes

  1. Exploring Our Amazement: Poetry and Its Audience

    Julian May investigates the changing relationship between poetry and its audience.

  2. The Good Old Days?

    Billy Bragg on the Victorian music hall, considered Britain's original urban folk music.

  3. Movie Nights in Moscow

    Rana Mitter travels to Moscow to explore the new Russia through its cinema.

  4. The Muse of Censorship

    Did artistic achievement in Eastern Europe collapse in 1989 along with the Berlin Wall?

  5. Painting Lolita

    Laura Cumming explores the controversial history of the child nude in art.

  7. Deep France, Deep Problem?

    Writer Adam Thorpe explores the darker stories underlying sunny, smiling southern France.

  8. For the Islands I Sing

    Poet Kenneth Steven visits Orkney, the island where George Mackay Brown spent his life.

  9. Smashing the Idols

    Writer Andrew Brown explores the cultural and theological legacy of Calvinism.

  10. Les Ballets Russes

    Dance critic Judith Mackrell tells the story of infamous dance company Les Ballets Russes.

  11. Searching for Alfred in the Shadow of Tennyson

    Ruth Padel searches for the real Tennyson behind the poetry and investigates his legacy.

  12. Simone Weil

    Michael Symmons Roberts examines the short life of the French philosopher Simone Weil.

  13. The State of Tel Aviv

    Moshe Morad meets people in Tel Aviv, a modern city in an ancient land.

  14. Travelling the Great Divide - The New US-Mexico Border

    Claudine LoMonaco examines the impact of the US-Mexico border and its new fortifications.

  15. Chaos and Creation

    An exploration of the mythology and the science of the origins of the universe.

  16. Children of the Whitsun Weddings

    Poets Paul Farley and Kate Royal discuss their admiration for Philip Larkin's poetry.

  17. The Life and Times of Michael X

    The story of Michael X, a former mugger who had a part in race politics in 1960s Britain.

  18. Leland's Travels

    David Wallace explores the life and work of scholar John Leland.

  19. 18th Century Season - Liquid Assets: Tracing Handel's Thousands

    麻豆官网首页入口 business correspondent Peter Day explores Handel's financial dealings.

  20. Wheels and Stones

    Robert Powell reads from The Wheelwright's Shop, about making wooden wheels and wagons.

  21. Sorochintsy Fair

    Hardeep Singh Kohli examines life and work of the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.

  22. From Ecstasy to Infinity

    Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores science and mathematics in the arts of the baroque

  23. The Black Cube

    Navid Akhtar talks about the Ka'aba, a shrine in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

  24. Dr Rowan Williams

    Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, explores the realms of silence.

  25. Darwin's Conundrum

    An exploration of what Charles Darwin really thought about faith and religion.

  26. The Origins of the Origin

    Andrew Cunningham traces the roots of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

  27. Killing the King

    Justin Champion considers new research about the trial and execution of Charles I.

  28. Creating Burns's Reputation

    Robert Crawford on why Robert Burns was a poet and songwriter of international importance.

  29. Inside the Art Schools

    Michael Bracewell discovers how today's art students realise their creative ambitions.

  30. Vril

    Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, an all-powerful Victorian fictional energy source.

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