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Behold the Man

The Incredulity of St Thomas by Guercino

Nigerian novelist Chibundu Onuzo contemplates doubting Thomas at the National Gallery.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

An Officer and a Swimming Pool: How I decided to Travel Blind

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

Why There are 300 Seconds in a Blind Minute

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

Sight Seeing? Or Hear Listening

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

The Importance of Imagination

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

Hear Listening

How I See With My Feet

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

Becoming What You Are

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

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On Holiday with Nietzsche

Under the Mountain

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

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On Holiday with Nietzsche

For Everyone and No-One

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

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On Holiday with Nietzsche

A Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

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On Holiday with Nietzsche

The Art of Ending

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

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From the Source

Gaelic Waters

Folk singer Julie Fowlis conjures kelpies, selkies and waterfall banshees from Gaelic song

• 14 mins

From the Source

Medway Mudlarks

Driftwood, a Victorian poison bottle and a sailor's lost boot. Potent inspiration for art.

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From the Source

The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

Once lead singer of The Undertones, Feargel Sharkey now gets his kicks from rod and line.

• 14 mins

From the Source

The Power of the Thames

Helen Czerski shares a physicist's view of the River Thames

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From the Source

Swimming the Avon

Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett swims the River Avon in search of inspiration.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Fiona Stafford

Reflections on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, from the 2019 Hay Festival.

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Hay Festival 2019

Horatio Clare

Horatio Clare explores the castaway myth.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle reflects on Robinson Crusoe's themes of imperialism and slavery.

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Hay Festival 2019

Alys Conran

Alys Conran reflects on what it's like to read Robinson Crusoe as a novelist.

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Hay Festival 2019

Daniel Hahn

The Essay from Hay Festival 2019

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Music Monologues

Dodo

An elderly woman finds herself trapped in a small aircraft heading for disaster.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

The Dead Dad Show

A would-be comedian has a strange encounter on the train from London to Edinburgh.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

Reluctant Spirit

A young girl with a disability describes her relationship with her mother.

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Music Monologues

Every Night

A man with compulsive cravings finds unexpected solace when he meets a young woman.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

Le Festival de Men

A young woman looks for love at the first-ever Festival de Men.

• 14 mins

Masculinity

The Well-Groomed Georgian

Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth.

• 14 mins

Masculinity

Sword to Pen: Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir

Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised Napoleonic Redcoat

• 14 mins

Masculinity

Comrades in Arms

Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality

• 14 mins

Masculinity

'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The History of the Three-Piece Suit

Sarah Goldsmith on an immortal trio jacket, waistcoat and trousers.

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