Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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Immortal North
A practical guide to immortality, life extension and survival in the far north.
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Illuminating the Stage
With flickering candles to dispel the darkness, Fiona Shaw illuminates stage light.
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Laura Ingalls' America
Samira Ahmed on how the Little House on the Prairie author is regarded in modern America.
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New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson
In search of the Tomb of Alexander the Great, and The Voice and the Machine.
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Resurrecting Mayakovsky
Ian Sansom looks at the life and legacy of Soviet poet and artist, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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A Column for Infinity
Patrick McGuinness discusses Brancusi's war memorial, the Endless Column in Romania.
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Emigranti - 1917 Revisited
How do Russia's latest cultural emigres feel about leaving their homeland?
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Louisa Egbunike and Sean Williams
Two New Generation Thinkers present features on Afrofuturism and German Lieder.
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A Flapper's Guide to the Opera
Alexandra Wilson takes a flapper's journey back to 1920s' operatic London.
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John Tusa's Opera Journey
John Tusa revisits the three provincial German towns where he first discovered opera.
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Every County in the State of California
A radio road movie with Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California.
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Nobody Knows My Name: Notes on James Baldwin
A conversation between contemporary figures and archive recordings of James Baldwin.
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A Life In Study: Robert Lowell
Colm Toibin profiles the brilliance and the madness of American poet Robert Lowell.
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The Battle for Henry David Thoreau
Susan Marling travels to Massachusetts to assess the legacy of Henry David Thoreau.
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Music in Peril
Lopa Kothari considers the threats posed to Pakistan's rich tradition of Sufi music.
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Ginsberg in India
Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s.
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The Killers
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story The Killers
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From the Ashes
Allan Little explores the history of the post-war arts festivals of Europe.
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Geeking Glenn Gould
James Rhodes goes in hunt of his boyhood hero, Candian pianist Glenn Gould.
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Grid
Exploring the grid as the great hidden idea behind modernism, art, music and urban design.
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Frost-Heron
How St Ives abstract artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron formed an unlikely friendship.
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The Bloomsbury Lighthouse
Tracing Graham Greene, George Orwell, AL Lloyd and Laurie Lee's WWII propaganda careers.
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The Dvorak Statement
Mahan Esfahani discovers the past and present of African-American classical music.
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Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi's Women
Catherine Fletcher measures the impact of Monteverdi's real and fictional female figures.
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Reformation 500
Chris Bowlby explores how the Reformation shaped German culture and what it means today.
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Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: A Square Dance in Heaven
The Rev Lucy Winkett takes a musical tour of the Reformation.
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v. is for Tony
Paul Farley presents a profile of a unique poet, playwright and director, Tony Harrison.
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I Know an Island - RM Lockley
Jon Gower uncovers the work of pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.
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Hitting the High Notes
Sally Marlow investigates why many jazz musicians turned to heroin in the post-war period.
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Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan?
Ken Hollings reassesses the life and career of 1960s media theorist Marshall McLuhan.