From prison breaks to VR dinosaurs: insights from the AHRC & BBC's scheme for academics.
Jake Morris-Campbell carries the ashes of poet Bill Martin from Sunderland to Durham.
Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.
Laurence Scott introduces the ten academics chosen to share their research on radio.
Artist Hew Locke plus historians Sarah Caputo, Jake Subryan Richards and Tom Nancollas.
Shahidha Bari on a new staging of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Why is Warwick a key figure?
Novelist Julian Barnes, historian Daisy Hay and New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan.
Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about community, collective action and May revels.
Tangled bloodlines, executions and a big, gold inflatable thing belonging to Henry VIII.
Donne, Hamlet, mathematics and the Tudor portraits composed by Vaughan Williams.
Leah Broad uncovers the sometimes shocking stories of three marginalised female composers.
Dr Lisa Mullen tells the story of how postwar Coventry became the City of Tomorrow.
Sophie Oliver looks at a Mina Loy corselet and the history of reshaping bodies.
Shahidha Bari looks at what the contents of a handbag can tell us.
Jade Halbert looks at the designs inspired by English history created by Angela Holmes.
Tom Smith links school blazers and clothes worn by East German soldiers to clubbing.
Lauren Working explores the cavalier look from Charles I to Harry Styles.
Art historian Martin Kemp and painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website
Anne McElvoy is joined by Neil Wilkin, Mike Pitts, Susan Greaney and Seren Griffiths.
Will Abberley reconsiders Richard Jefferies's essay The Pigeons at the British Museum.
Punk often caused offence. Shahidha Bari asks if that idea of rebellion resonates today.
Novelist Colm Toibin joins Anne McElvoy to discuss the German author's life and struggles.
Literally "breaking the fast" - Matthew Sweet moves from the Full English to Tiffany's.
From an 18th-century Black Juliet to Ira Aldridge’s daughter Amanda. Plus, Rita Montaner.
From fake flowers carved by Grinling Gibbons to modern craft and internet images.
