Sunday Feature: Educating Isaac
Could your child compose like Mozart? While searching for a creative and fun way to teach his 3-year-old son, Nick Baragwanath discovered a forgotten history of music completely different from the usu...
28 Apr 201443min
Sunday Feature:Merchant Ivory
Style, flair, individuality, ideas... and stars. The filmic output of the remarkable three-person association of creative talents that is collectively known as 'Merchant Ivory' has endured since the e...
6 Apr 201443min
Sunday Feature: Music and the Jews (3/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the last of three programmes examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity. Spanning thousands of years, from King David and the creation of the Psalms...
23 Mars 201444min
Music and the Jews (2/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the second of three programmes examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity. Women, in the Jewish religion, are not meant to sing, and yet Jewish wome...
20 Mars 201445min
Music and the Jews (1/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the first programme in a three-part series examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity. Spanning thousands of years, from King David and the creation...
19 Mars 201444min
Shanghai World City Redux
Rana Mitter reveals how Shanghai today is forging its identity as an ultramodern city – by rediscovering its glamorous 1920s past, when 'Shanghai' meant movies, neon and jazz.
26 Jan 201446min
Somme
Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river whose character belies its violent history, a history intertwined with the English since medieval times.
5 Jan 201443min
Anything But Banal - the Fascination of the Villain
Paul Allen explores the allure of evil through great villains, from Hollywood baddies to Shakespearean antiheroes and real people, with great British actors, directors and writers.
3 Jan 201443min
