Sunday Feature: John Tusa's Opera Journey
John Tusa revisits the provincial German towns where as a 19-year-old national serviceman he first discovered opera in 1955 and finds out why, 62 years on, it’s still thriving there. Back then, he was...
8 Okt 201743min
Sunday Feature: Every County in the State of California
When Dana Gioia was appointed Poet Laureate of California in 2015 he was invited to read in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. But Gioia believes the role is to encourage poetry throughout the...
1 Okt 201743min
Sunday Feature: The Killers
Adam Smith traces Ernest Hemingway’s brutal, brilliant short story - from its birth in gangster-era Chicago, through its Hollywood afterlife as a noir classic, to its strange status as Ronald Reagan’s...
13 Aug 201743min
Edinburgh 70: Nothing Short of a Miracle
The Edinburgh Festival was founded 70 years ago in the aftermath of World War Two. 1947 was a year of shortages and rationing, and the idea of starting an arts festival in Scotland's capital city must...
7 Aug 201726min
Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice
Forster's gay love story was a forbidden book, unpublished until his death.
9 Juli 201743min
Canada 150: Geeking Glenn Gould
James Rhodes is a massive Glenn Gould Geek: throughout his childhood he listened to Gould's recordings, had posters of him on his bedroom walls, and in the years since, those recordings have helped Ja...
25 Juni 201743min
Sunday Feature: Monteverdi's Women
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
14 Maj 201743min
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution. Reformation 500
Germany's celebrating 500 years since the Reformation - but what does it mean today? Chris Bowlby visits Wittenberg - where Martin Luther started it all in 1517. He discovers how the Reformation trans...
8 Maj 201743min
