Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music- A New World Symphony
Petroc Trelawny presents a three part Sunday Feature series looking at the way Western Classical Music is flourishing in often surprising new territories. In the first programme he considers the impo...
22 Sep 201445min
I Have Been Here Before
Francis Spufford explores how An Experiment with Time, written by former soldier and aircraft designer J.W. Dunne, had a profound influence on J.B. Priestley and others for decades.
15 Sep 201443min
The Devastation of British Art
Diarmaid MacCulloch tells the story of iconoclasm during the English Reformation.
8 Aug 201443min
How Did Scotland's Artists Turn Nationalist
Scotland goes to the polls on the 18th September to decide its constitutional future. Why do so many of Scotland's writers and artists support the Yes Campaign? Stuart Kelly investigates.
13 Juli 201442min
June 22: Bannockburn Begins
Novelist Louise Welsh explores some of the meanings, ancient and modern, of the battle of Bannockburn on its 700th anniversary
26 Juni 201444min
Sunday Feature: Dennis Potter
The playwright Dennis Potter died twenty years ago. Matthew Sweet reassesses the legacy of the author of 'The Singing Detective' and 'Pennies from Heaven' and hears from his friends and colleagues, in...
15 Juni 201444min
Sonic Art Boom
Dan Jones, composer and sound designer, considers why it has taken so long for Sound Art to get a hearing, he goes hunting for sound at CERN with Bill Fontana, Janet Cardiff talks about her 40 part ...
8 Juni 201444min
Sunday Feature: Dylan Thomas the Radio Poet
Writer Rachel Trezise - the first winner of the annual Dylan Thomas Prize - tells the story of Dylan Thomas's broadcasting life. Dylan Thomas often remarked that his poetry was written as much for the...
4 Maj 201443min
