Sunday Feature: Palace of Shame
It's a story of loot, revenge and devastated beauty that looms over British-Chinese relations. Chris Bowlby uncovers the fate of the imperial summer palace in Beijing.
1 Feb 201543min
Sunday Feature: Beautiful Death
Stephen Johnson connects Mahler's beliefs about death to Viennese funeral customs, and particularly the idea of 'beautiful death' which was pervasive in Mahler's Vienna.
25 Jan 201544min
Andy Warhol's Factory Friends
Candy Darling and Edie Sedgwick are now the stuff of legend, but many of those with first-hand experience of Warhol's Factory live on. Paul Morley hears tales to amaze and inspire.
19 Jan 201543min
Sunday Feature: Thom Gunn - Appropriate Measures
Author Colm Tóibín profiles the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, self-professed lover of "loud music, bars and boisterous men", whose tightly-wrought poetry imposed control and order upon his hedonistic...
4 Jan 201543min
Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties
Matthew is joined by historians and performers to explore World War 1 popular culture - from music hall to movies, theatre to night clubs and drugs. Recorded before an audience.
28 Dec 201443min
Sunday Feature: The Supernatural North
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural icy world that haunts the imagination of writers including Philip Pullman and A.S. Byatt.
14 Dec 201443min
Sunday Feature: The Fundamentalist Queen
Samira Ahmed explores the extraordinary rise and fall of the Lady Protectress Elizabeth, wife of Oliver Cromwell - a commoner who became "queen" in the 1650s.
11 Dec 201443min
Sunday Feature: A Cultural History of the Plague
Laura Ashe tells the story of the Black Death and discovers how plague changed our cultural landscape, and influences our responses to current emergencies such as Ebola.
30 Nov 201443min
