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Commonwealth Questions

Tolu Ogunlesi

Poet and author Tolu Ogunlesi asks if young people in Lagos can relate to the Commonwealth

• 15 mins

Secret Admirers

Sarah Walker on John White

Sarah Walker celebrates English experimentalist composer John White.

• 15 mins

Secret Admirers

Tom Service on Arnold Bax

Radio 3 presenter Tom Service celebrates the music of Scots-inspired composer Arnold Bax.

• 15 mins

Secret Admirers

Lucie Skeaping on Thomas Ravenscroft

Radio 3 presenter Lucie Skeaping celebrates Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Ravenscroft.

• 15 mins

Secret Admirers

Martin Handley on Malcolm Arnold

Radio 3 presenter Martin Handley celebrates English composer Malcolm Arnold.

• 15 mins

Secret Admirers

Sara Mohr-Pietsch on Hildegard of Bingen

Radio 3 presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen.

• 15 mins

Springwalks

Michele Roberts in Poznan

Michele Roberts walks through Poznan and is reminded of Persephone, goddess of spring.

• 15 mins

Springwalks

Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds

Ross Raisin observes the onset of spring in the Yorkshire wolds.

• 15 mins

Springwalks

John Walsh

John Walsh recalls his observations on an early spring walk near a village called Steep.

• 15 mins

Springwalks

Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland

Kirsty Gunn describes the start of spring on a walk in Sutherland.

• 15 mins

Springwalks

Philip Hoare in Sholing

Philip Hoare describes seeing many animals while walking at the water's edge in Sholing.

• 15 mins

Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects

'Whereyouwanttogoto' - The Wardrobe and the Other World

Novelist Ian Sansom explores the history and symbolism attached to wardrobes.

• 15 mins

Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects

Who's Been Sitting in My Chair? Our Shadow Selves

Ian Sansom examines our complex physical, mental and emotional relationship with the chair

• 15 mins

Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects

Je suis un table

Ian Sansom explores the literary, philosophical and cultural history of the table.

• 15 mins

Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects

Old Mother Hubbard and the Cabinet of Curiosity: The Story of Storage

Novelist Ian Sansom explores what cupboards and cabinets reveal about human nature.

• 15 mins

Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects

An Intimate History of the Bed

Novelist Ian Sansom considers the symbolism of beds in literature, art and film.

• 15 mins

Portraits of Capa

Janine di Giovanni

War correspondent Janine di Giovanni reflects on the life of photographer Robert Capa.

• 15 mins

Portraits of Capa

John D McHugh

John D McHugh reflects on the role of empathy and friendship in Robert Capa's work.

• 15 mins

Portraits of Capa

Hilary Roberts

Historian Hilary Roberts considers the work of photojournalist Robert Capa.

• 15 mins

Portraits of Capa

Tim Collins

Colonel Tim Collins examines photojournalist Robert Capa's picture The Last One to Die.

• 15 mins

Portraits of Capa

John Morris

Picture editor John Morris considers his friend - photojournalist Robert Capa.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Paths of Glory

麻豆官网首页入口 correspondent Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevinson's 1917 painting Paths of Glory.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Non-Combatants and Others

Author Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Der Krieg

Cartoonist Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

Prof David Edgerton discusses the 1916 Memorandum on the Neglect of Science.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Michal Shapira explores Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Le Feu

Heather Jones on Henri Barbusse's Le Feu, the first explicit account of WWI conditions.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Battleship Potemkin

Ian Christie discusses Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin as a response to World War I.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

麻豆官网首页入口 correspondent Lyse Doucet discusses Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: Series 1

The Broken Wing

Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.

• 15 mins