Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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Harlem on Fire
Afua Hirsch goes in search of a long-lost masterpiece from the Harlem Renaissance.
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The Kristapurana
The travels of the first Englishman in India, and the hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.
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The Ruhleben Legacy
Revealing how life in a German internment camp shaped the course of classical music.
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New Generation Thinkers 2/2
Two NGAs ask: is it wrong to have children? Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare?
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New Generation Thinkers. 1 of 2
Two Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers with stories from medieval and Victorian Britain.
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Inside Stories
Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation
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Forests of the imagination
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.
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A Portrait of Parry
Simon Heffer argues for a new understanding of Sir Hubert Parry
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The Nature of Creativity
As nature disappears, are we losing what has inspired our creativity for generations?
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Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before
A parrot, a Dr Who, a Detectorist, and a National Treasure help a Seeker resurrect Ken.
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The Bernstein Files
Journalist Jonathan Coffey opens the secret FBI files on Leonard Bernstein.
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Philip French and the Critical Ear
Laurence Scott on radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French.
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Tony Harrison's Prague Spring
How one of Britain's best-known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
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The Summer Forest
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the cultural and ecological glories of the summer forest.
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Under the Water
Maritime archaeologists race against time and the tide at a submerged Mesolithic site.
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Oh Dr Kinsey, Look What You've Done to Me!
Matthew Sweet looks at the impact of the Kinsey Report, first published seventy years ago.
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Japan's Never-Ending War
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
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Supernatural Japan
An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.
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Exit Burbage - the man who created Hamlet
Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's not well known - why?
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Too Many Artists?
From painting in a Paris garret to bouncing on trampolines - what is an artist today?
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A Symphony of Psalms
Cerys Matthews explores the influence of the 150 Psalms on musicians and composers.
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Blind, Black and Blue
Gary O'Donoghue asks why so many early blues musicians in America's Deep South were blind.
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Concerto: The One and the Many
Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.
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A Portrait of Val Wilmer
How has Val Wilmer become a world figure in the documentation of Black music and culture?
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Patrick Kavanagh: the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard
Theo Dorgan finds out why Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, who died in 1968, is so loved now.
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Radio Controlled
Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the cultural cold war.
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Alex La Guma - The Black Dickens
Lindsay Johns argues that novelist Alex La Guma is an overlooked literary colossus.
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
The 40 Days of Musa Dagh was both prophecy and epic paean to survival.