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The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes

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    NGT The Balcony

    Dr Islam Issa celebrates the importance of Balconies, from Cairo to the Capulet's garden.

  2. New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter & The Life and Life of Richard Baxter

    The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter

  3. New Generation Thinkers: The Perfect Balance

    Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri searches for different perspectives on the idea of balance.

  4. New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson

    New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson

  5. New Generation Thinkers

    1. Euphemism and Eroticism in Scottish Gaelic Songs. 2.Reappraising Nollekens.

  6. New Generation Thinker short feature: Hilltop Histories

    Archaeologist Seren Griffiths tells the multiple stories of a Sandstone ridge in Cheshire

  7. New Generation Thinker short Feature: COVID and The Black Death, an imperfect fit.

    Medievalist Dr Seb Falk questions the comparisons between COVID19 and The Black Death.

  8. Music on the Brink of Destruction

    In the Nazi camps and ghettos a vast range of music was created

  9. Music and the Jews (2/3)

    Norman Lebrecht presents the second of three programmes examining the complex between...

  10. Music and the Jews (1/3)

    Norman Lebrecht presents the first programme in a three-part series examining the and...

  11. More Kershaw Tapes

    Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels.

  12. Monteverdi's Women

    Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers

  13. Mongolia: Keeping in Steppe

    Anthropologist David Sneath reports on changes to ancient cultures.in Mongolia.

  14. Modernism Redux

    Will Self broadcasts an imaginary archive of modernist radio and discusses the of...

  15. Metal City

    How has metalworking affected the culture of Birmingham over hundreds of years?

  16. Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties

    Matthew is joined by historians and performers to explore World War 1 popular culture...

  17. Margaret are you Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping

    Throughout our cultural history, tears have been intimately connected with the arts,...

  18. Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain

    Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain

  19. Looking for the Moor with intro.wav

    Hugh Quarshie seeks resolution to the dilemmas of a black actor playing Othello

  20. Literary Pursuits: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

    Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind how great works of literature were written.

  21. Literary Pursuits: Lord of the Flies

    Golding's classic novel was saved from being rejected by Faber by the luckiest chance.

  22. Literary Pursuits: Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

    Sarah Dillon hunts down the story behind the writing of great works.

  23. Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion

    Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written.

  24. Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice

    Forster's gay love story was a forbidden book, unpublished until his death.

  25. Literary Pursuits: Dubliners

    Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.

  26. Literary Pursuits - Jekyll and Hyde

    Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of R.L. Stevenson's horror classic

  27. Laura Ingalls鈥� America

    Samira Ahmed considers how the Little House on the Prairie author is regarded in America.

  28. Langston Hughes at the Third

    How an unlikely friendship led to the epic 1964 radio series The Negro in America

  29. Kitty Marion and The Poetry of Science

    Gregory Tate explores why many C19th scientists wrote poetry, as do several today.

  30. Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before

    David Bramwell with actors whose lives were transformed by director Ken Campbell.

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