Bannockburn Begins

Novelist Louise Welsh explores meanings, ancient and modern, of the battle of Bannockburn.

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Music in the Great War: Gavrilo Princip's Footprint

Maria Margaronis explores the legacy of Gavrilo Princip, whose shots sparked WWI.

• 45 mins

World War One: Cradle of Jazz

Alyn Shipton charts the musical and social changes behind the emergence of jazz.

• 45 mins

How Did Scotland's Artists Turn Nationalist?

Stuart Kelly examines why many Scottish artists today have declared for independence.

• 45 mins

Faith Without God

Episode 1

Michael Goldfarb learns about the real lives of Buddha, Confucius, Thales and Pythagoras.

• 45 mins

Faith Without God

Episode 2

Michael Goldfarb explains how Buddhism and Confucianism became religions.

• 45 mins

I Have Been Here Before

How a 1927 essay by a former soldier influenced JB Priestley and other writers for decades

• 45 mins

Who Was Richard Strauss?

Tom Service travels to Switzerland in search of the real Richard Strauss.

• 45 mins

Enter the Dragon: Chinese Theatre in the 21st Century

Rana Mitter travels to Beijing to explore the recent flourishing of theatre in China.

• 45 mins

The Gospel According to Joan

A portrait of the life and legacy of theatre director Joan Littlewood.

• 45 mins

God and the Great War

Frank Cottrell Boyce explores the impact of WWI on religion at home and at the front.

• 45 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Fern Riddell discusses suffragette Kitty Marion. Plus Gregory Tate on science and poetry.

• 45 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Christopher Harding, John Gallagher

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers on Freud in Asia and the foreign language phrase book.

• 45 mins

In the Shadow of the Tower (Exhibition Exposed)

Andrew Hussey visits Paris to understand how the Eiffel Tower has shaped French culture.

• 45 mins

A Cultural History of the Plague

Laura Ashe explores how the plague has changed our social and cultural landscape.

• 45 mins

The Fundamentalist Queen

Samira Ahmed delves into the mysterious life of Oliver Cromwell's wife, Elizabeth.

• 45 mins

Music and the Jews

I've Heard There Was a Secret Chord

Norman Lebrecht explores the role music has played at some key points in Jewish history.

• 45 mins

Music and the Jews

There's a Place for Us

Norman Lebrecht traces the history of female Jewish singers.

• 45 mins

Music and the Jews

It Ain't Necessarily So

Norman Lebrecht on the idea of a 'Jewish thumbprint' in Mendelssohn's and others' music.

• 45 mins

The Supernatural North

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural.

• 45 mins

Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties

Matthew Sweet explores WWI popular culture with the help of historians and performers.

• 45 mins

Thom Gunn: Appropriate Measures

Author Colm Toibin profiles Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, who died in 2004.

• 45 mins

Zola in Norwood

Michael Rosen traces novelist Emile Zola's exile in Britain as he fled a prison sentence.

• 45 mins

Beautiful Death

Stephen Johnson connects Mahler's beliefs about death to Viennese funeral customs.

• 45 mins

Palace of Shame

Chris Bowlby uncovers the fate of the imperial summer palace in Beijing.

• 45 mins

Eric Ravilious: Chalk and Ice

Alexandra Harris explores the life and work of the elusive artist Eric Ravilious.

• 45 mins

Cuba Clasica

Andrew McGregor visits Havana to investigate Cuba's classical music scene today.

• 45 mins

The Day of the Locust

Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust.

• 45 mins

From Convent to Concert Hall

Kate Kennedy reviews four female string players who were pioneering in their own lifetimes

• 45 mins

Mission Harpsichord

Mahan Esfahani discovers why the harpsichord is an often misunderstood instrument.

• 45 mins