Sunday Feature - Stirring Up A Revolution
Author and journalist Tarek Osman returns to the Middle East to explore how the apparently unassuming establishment of the Café has served as a vibrant hub of change in the political tsunamis that hav...
9 Juni 201343min
Sunday Feature - Wagner: Making a National Hero
As part of Wagner 200, Stephen Johnson explores the worlds of Wagner's heroes, from Norse myths to his own Tannhauser, Siegfried and Parsifal. He charts how Wagner himself became a national hero.
19 Maj 201345min
Jan Morris, Travels Round My House
Writer Anthony Sattin visits Jan Morris's Welsh home on the 60th anniversary of the ascent of Everest to talk about her role in the story and other tales to be gleaned about her life from the objects ...
13 Maj 201344min
Sunday Feature - Piano's Music Boxes
Renzo Piano is the architect behind the tallest building in Western Europe, The Shard at London Bridge. He grew up wanting to be a musician, and Tom Service discovers how he sees the basic elements of...
7 Maj 201345min
Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (3 of 3)
The Reverend Richard Coles visits Lincoln Cathedral, the focus of Medieval pilgrimage, to begin the last of his series exploring contemporary and historical ideas about sin. Having looked at the centr...
11 Mars 201343min
Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (1 of 3)
In this first of three programmes, Richard explores what exactly is meant by sin, and its origins in man's earliest ethical structures.
11 Mars 201343min
Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (2 of 3)
The Reverand Richard Coles explores notions of temptation and its part in contemporary and ancient societies.
7 Mars 201343min
Margaret are you Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping
Throughout our cultural history, tears have been intimately connected with the arts, whether as inspiration or response. Thomas Dixon is director of the UK's first Centre for the History of the Emotio...
4 Feb 201344min
