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Programme showcasing feature reports and discussions on any number of cultural subjects. Get in touch... [email protected] Call: 03700 100 300
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Fruits of the Earth
Four writers ask why fertility has been so important to the fields of art and ideas
Homer's Landscapes
Adam Nicolson traces the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought
How Far Would You Go For A Dance?
Judith Mackrell talks to innovative British and Irish choreographers
Ideas - The British Version (Series 2)
Series about ideas that first developed in Britain and then spread across the world
Ideas - The British Version
...Version. Series exploring the origins of British intellectual traditions
MindMaps
Series examining the ferment of ideas generated in a single city
North of South Revisited
Journalist Joel Kibazo retraces Shiva Naipaul's journey through East Africa in the 1970s
South American Currents
A new series offering fresh cultural perspectives on South America
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Jerry Brotton examines the complex relations between England and the Islamic world.
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American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the history of cunning through the ages.
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Clive Lawton explores the Israeli city of Safed, the 'world capital of spirituality'.
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A drama-documentary telling the story of the first decades of hot air ballooning.
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Author Dreda Say Mitchell investigates the issues relating to today's housing estates.
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Artist Jane Wildgoose traces the history of two human skulls in her private collection.
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Louise Doughty explores the growth of the young adult fiction market in the UK.
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Frances Byrnes asks whether dances can or should survive the deaths of choreographers.
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Ken Hollings explores the world's ultimate think tank, the RAND Corporation.
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Blake Morrison visits the writer's home in Tennessee and follows his footsteps to Alabama.
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Sean Street tells the story of Cupids Cove, the first English settlement in Canada.
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Tom de Waal takes a journey up the Bosphorus to present a portrait of Istanbul.
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Louisa Buck discusses the life and work of British painter Francis Bacon.
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A tale of rivalry, character assassination and social climbing in 18th century London.
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Anthony Sattin explores the attempts in Abu Dhabi to 'buy culture'.
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Prof Judith Herrin traces the history of the Roman city of Byzantium.
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An exploration of the mythology and the science of the origins of the universe.
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Poets Paul Farley and Kate Royal discuss their admiration for Philip Larkin's poetry.
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Isabel Hilton reports from China on the current boom in museum building.
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Nick Rankin on how Neruda saved thousands from the Spanish Civil War. But was he a hero?
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John Worthen walks in the footsteps of Coleridge as the poet visited Gottingen in 1798.
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Robert Crawford on why Robert Burns was a poet and songwriter of international importance.
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An exploration of what Charles Darwin really thought about faith and religion.
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Writer Adam Thorpe explores the darker stories underlying sunny, smiling southern France.
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Professor Paul Robertson sets out in search of the real Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Paul Henry presents a celebration of 20th century poet WS Graham.
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Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, explores the realms of silence.
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Poet Michael Symmons Roberts embarks on a personal exploration of the role of the elegy.
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Tristram Hunt explores how Elgar's music articulated the notion of British Empire.
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Exploring the works of Japanese artist Toru Takemitsu.
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Julian May investigates the changing relationship between poetry and its audience.
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Marybeth Hamilton tells the story of the invention of ethnographic fieldwork.
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Isabel Hilton reports from Beijing on China's relationship with its minority cultures.
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Poet Kenneth Steven visits Orkney, the island where George Mackay Brown spent his life.
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The links between EM Forster's homosexuality, his politics and his ability to mix cultures
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Phil Redmond delivers the annual Free Thinking Lecture at Liverpool's St Georges Hall.
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Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores science and mathematics in the arts of the baroque
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Ken Hollings tells the cultural history of war-gaming: from Kriegspiel to virtual war.
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David Szalay examines chess as an artistic metaphor in literature and modern art.
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Christopher Cook pieces together the story of the ancient 'Goethe's Oak' in Buchenwald.
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Chris Brookes and Alan Hall sift the sound-worlds of two modern English environments.
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Jamie Andrews looks through the works writer John Berger donated to the British Library.
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Frances Stonor Saunders discusses Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.
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Harriett Gilbert explores the life and work of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
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Norman Lebrecht talks to those whose lives have been touched by the music of Gustav Mahler
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Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the sixth-century Welsh poem the Gododdin.
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Ivan Hewett explores the origins and evolution of music.
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Michael Bracewell discovers how today's art students realise their creative ambitions.
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Matthew Sweet tracks a Native American movie-maker from California to the London of 1914.
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The story of John Dankworth's return to South Africa after a gap of 50 years.
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Edward Stourton explores the life and legacy of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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David Norbrook traces Milton from his age to ours, and considers his importance today.
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Tim Marlow charts the history of cultural collaboration and looks at its importance today.
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Justin Champion considers new research about the trial and execution of Charles I.
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David Wallace explores the life and work of scholar John Leland.
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Dance critic Judith Mackrell tells the story of infamous dance company Les Ballets Russes.
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BBC business correspondent Peter Day looks at Handel's financial dealings.
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Joanna Moorhead traces the life of celebrated surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
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Paul Muldoon and other poets offer personal assessments of the Irish poet's work.
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Prof David Wallace traces the history of Le Morte Darthur, Thomas Malory's great work.
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Cognitive science professor Maggie Boden explores advances in Artificial Intelligence.
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A tribute to the filmmaker and playwright Anthony Minghella who died in March 2008.
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Rana Mitter travels to Moscow to explore the new Russia through its cinema.
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John Sessions explores a research project rewriting the story of early English drama.
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Owen Dudley Edwards explores Oscar Wilde's year-long tour of America.
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Laura Cumming explores the controversial history of the child nude in art.
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Looking at the DH Lawrence's time in Cornwall after the bad reception of The Rainbow.
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Petroc Trelawny visits China to find out why the country is now gripped by piano fever.
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A discussion on the life and legacy of cultural historian Raymond Williams.
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Richard Cork on how the First World War influenced Europe's early avant-garde artists.
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Susan Blackmore explores how we are outsourcing the memory of our lives to digital devices
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Rana Mitter considers the legacy of the August 1920 Soviet march on Warsaw.
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Nature writer Richard Mabey presents an exploration of spring in nature and in art.
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Poet Kathleen Jamie joins a research expedition to the uninhabited island of North Rona.
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British artist Cornelia Parker considers whether artists can bring about change.
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Steven Isserlis reappraises the music Schumann wrote in the last years of his life.
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Ruth Padel searches for the real Tennyson behind the poetry and investigates his legacy.
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Susannah Clapp explores Chekhov's obsession with memory and being forgotten.
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Michael Symmons Roberts examines the short life of the French philosopher Simone Weil.
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Jonathan Glancey tells the astonishing story of Ottoman court architect Koca Mimar Sinan.
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Writer Andrew Brown explores the cultural and theological legacy of Calvinism.
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Tom De Waal on the history of Pontic Greek culture in the Black Sea region of Turkey.
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Hardeep Singh Kohli examines life and work of the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.
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An interview from 1998, in which American artist Robert Rauschenberg discusses his career.
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Cultural historian Richard Weight explores how we decide what is tasty.
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Navid Akhtar talks about the Ka'aba, a shrine in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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Lavinia Greenlaw visits Nova Scotia to explore the childhood home of poet Elizabeth Bishop
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Michael Portillo explores the real history of the Rock of Gibraltar.
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Claire van Kampen goes in search of the lost operatic masterpiece The Siege of Rhodes.
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Hari Kunzru on writers' responses to the Anarchists of the Victorian and Edwardian era.
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AL Kennedy on the work and legacy of the 'Glasgow Boys', Scotland's first modern artists.
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Billy Bragg on the Victorian music hall, considered Britain's original urban folk music.
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The story of Michael X, a former mugger who had a part in race politics in 1960s Britain.
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Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce explores the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Hisham Matar explores how countries use culture as a political tool.
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Did artistic achievement in Eastern Europe collapse in 1989 along with the Berlin Wall?
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Andrew Cunningham traces the roots of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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The story of how the early telephone was used to broadcast live news and entertainment.
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David Vaughan explores the life and work of the poet Ivan Blatny.
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Isabel Hilton reports from China - 100 years on from the fall of the last emperor.
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Story of the biggest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Moshe Morad meets people in Tel Aviv, a modern city in an ancient land.
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Investigating whether Moscow's building boom is damaging its architectural heritage.
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The story of poet Ezra Pound, accused of treason by the US and held in a mental hospital.
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Paul Bennun spends seven days living solely through the portal of his computer screen.
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Zeinab Badawi reports from Khartoum on theatre groups helping those caught up in conflict.
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Mike Berlin visits the Gloucestershire village founded on the principles of Leo Tolstoy.
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Bettany Hughes tells the troubled story of the search for the ancient Aryans.
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Claudine LoMonaco examines the impact of the US-Mexico border and its new fortifications.
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Dennis Marks investigates why some nations are resisting Turkey joining the EU.
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Stephen Johnson presents an elegiac portrait of Vaughan Williams the man and composer.
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Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, an all-powerful Victorian fictional energy source.
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Sunil Khilnani questions the myths surrounding the man they call Netaji, or 'great leader'
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David Matthews and Anthony Cantle discuss the famous meeting between Mahler and Freud.
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Examining the life and legacy of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram.
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Robert Powell reads from The Wheelwright's Shop, about making wooden wheels and wagons.
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A poetic reflection by Kwame Dawes on the lives of black people in the South after slavery
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Dennis Mark travels to New York to discover what has become of the Yiddish language.
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Zaha Hadid, the acclaimed and prolific architect talks to Jonathan Glancey in this profile
The Romans in Britain
Series exploring the Roman era in Britain