Living Abroad

France

Frederic Raphael recalls his life as a young writer in the post-war Paris of Sartre.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

Spain

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Franco's Spain during the late 1950s.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

Italy

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in early 1960s Italy.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

Greece

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Greece in the early 1960s.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Tod Wodicka - The Reluctant Shaman

Writer Tod Wodicka describes suffering terrifying night terrors when he was younger.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Kei Miller - The Important Things

The Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet, novelist and critic examines some awkward truths.

• 14 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Erica Wagner - A History of My Family in One Object

Erica Wagner examines her mother's stories about her father and an unusual wedding gift.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Jane Stevenson - An Uneasy Feeling

Writer Jane Stevenson tells the true story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

5. Suzanne Joinson - 'Somebody Else's Story'

Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution

Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya tells a St Petersburg audience how World War I changed Russia.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

London - Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells

Joanna Bourke on the emotional, cultural and physical impact of WWI shelling on soldiers.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Sarajevo - Divine Uncertainty

Haris Pasovic explores WWI's effect on the long history of nationalism in the Balkans.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Paris: The Christmas Truce

Christian Carion asks what the mud and degradation of WWI did to the idea of heroism.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Dresden - Targets

Herlinde Koebl discusses World War One, targets and killing.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Sydney - Stories that Bind

Wesley Enoch explores the powerful mythology of the Anzacs in Australia.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Washington - Safe for Democracy

David Frum explains how World War One still defines American foreign policy.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists

Lina Attel explores how Jordanian national culture has survived since World War One.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Delhi - Parting Words

Shashi Tharoor explores Indian remembrances of the World War One.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

Dar es Salaam - Ubhuche, Invisible Histories of the First World War

Exploring why WWI is almost forgotten in Tanzania despite the casualties it suffered.

• 15 mins

The Genius of Disability

The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker

Tom Shakespeare discusses the blind tenth-century Arabian poet Al-Ma'arri.

• 15 mins

The Genius of Disability

The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce - What Would I Do If I Didn't Paint?

Tom Shakespeare on painter Bryan Pearce, born with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria.

• 15 mins

The Genius of Disability

Arturo Bispo do Rosario: The Sculptor Who Saved the World

Tom Shakespeare discusses sculptor Arturo Bispo do Rosario, who had schizophrenia.

• 15 mins

The Genius of Disability

Goya, Klee, Matisse: Leaving the Best till Last?

Tom Shakespeare discusses the lives and works of a selection of disabled artists.

• 15 mins

The Genius of Disability

Lucy Jones: Crawling to Glory

Tom Shakespeare celebrates painter Lucy Jones, who was born with cerebral palsy.

• 15 mins

Venice Unravelled

At Home

Polly Coles on what 'home' and 'house' mean to various types of residents in Venice today.

• 15 mins

Venice Unravelled

Tinseltown

Writer Polly Coles focuses on the impact of celebrity on Venice.

• 15 mins

Venice Unravelled

The Writing on the Wall

On the recent Biennale fashion of rigging-up neon strips of random text around Venice.

• 15 mins

Venice Unravelled

So Near to Venice

Focusing on the residents of Venice who serve the many tourists who arrive each year.

• 15 mins

Venice Unravelled

Water Level

Polly Coles discusses the boat-loving residents of Venice.

• 15 mins

The Book that Changed Me

Steve Earle on In Cold Blood

Musician and singer Steve Earle discusses the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

• 15 mins