Literary Pursuits - Jekyll and Hyde
Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of R.L. Stevenson's horror classic
26 Feb 201843min
The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled
Robert Worby on how post-war German radio and new music were conscripted to fight the cultural cold war, juggling political, economic and cultural forces outside of their control.
12 Feb 201843min
SUNDAY FEATURE THE 40 DAYS OF MUSA DAGH
In 1933 Franz Werfel's epic novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was published to huge acclaim. Werfel was then at the height of his powers, an internationally known author. He told the story of Armeni...
29 Jan 201843min
New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson
Alexander the Great's Tomb was famous and then it disappeared. Classical historian Edmund Richardson has spent the last few years following in the Macedonian's wake and admits to a growing obsession w...
3 Dec 201743min
Resurrecting Mayakovsky
Ian Sansom attempts to resurrect the spirit of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
19 Nov 201744min
Sunday Feature: Emigranti - 1917 Revisited
How do Russia's latest cultural émigrés feel about leaving their homeland? In Russia, culture is increasingly on the front line - many writers, theatre directors and academics feel stifled or under at...
6 Nov 201743min
Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Dr Louisa Egbunike, lecturer in English at City University London, is interested in the shifting frame of Afrofuturism. The term was originally coined in 1993 to bracket together work by African-Ameri...
29 Okt 201743min
A Flapper's Guide to the Opera
Opera Historian Dr Alexandra Wilson dons her cloche hat and steps into the shoes of a flapper for a journey back to 1920s London. Jazz was the new fad imported for America, dance clubs were taking the...
22 Okt 201743min
