The Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula
"3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."The first line of Bram Stoker's Dracula makes it...
31 Okt 201729min
Political Violence in America
The events in Charlottesville were just one example of the sharp rise in the number of violent confrontations in America between far-right white nationalists and left-wing groups known as 'antifa' - s...
27 Okt 201730min
Who's Looking At You?
Once upon a time, total surveillance was the province of George Orwell and totalitarian states, but we now live in a world where oceans of data are gathered from us every day by the wondrous digital d...
17 Okt 201758min
Dads and Daughters
The relationship between fathers and daughters has been the subject of countless cultural explorations down the centuries, from Elektra's distress to Bonjour Tristesse. Some of them are idealised ('To...
13 Okt 201731min
It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire
The Russian Revolution unleashed a brand of humour that continues to this day. In this two-part series, comedian and Russophile Viv Groskop explores a century of revolutionary comedy and asks how it c...
10 Okt 201730min
Passing Dreams
A portrait of singer, songwriter and truck driver Will Beeley.The myth of the road is deeply rooted in America - it's the thing that delivers escape, promises freedom, fuels new hopes and, once upon a...
3 Okt 201730min
My Muse: Lynne Truss on Joni Mitchell
Not everyone appreciates the tonalities, lyrics or even the shrieky voice of Canadian artist and musician Joni Mitchell but in a dusty class room in 1971 Lynne Truss decided she loved the writer of Wo...
29 Sep 201729min
Art in Miniature
Tiny bathers relax in a puddle of oily water on a pavement; a galleon sails on the head of a pin, a dancer twirls next to a mote of dust under a microscope - Dr Lance Dann, lover of miniature worlds, ...
26 Sep 201731min
