Cornerstones

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Scandinavia's Samiland

Poet John Burnside explores his fascination with the Sami landscapes of northern Norway.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Cornerstones - The Canadian Arctic

Travel writer Sara Wheeler recalls her time visiting Canada's Arctic region.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Cornerstones: Greenland Caves

Gina Moseley describes leading a team of cavers into an unknown cavern system in Greenland

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Cornerstones: Siberia

Daniel Kalder conjures the vast landscapes east of the Urals, where taiga becomes tundra.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Northern Lights - Cornerstones: Alaska

Jason Mark visits northern Alaska and reflects on the impact of our lust for hydrocarbons.

• 15 mins

Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Elizabeth Hay on Painting Place III by David Milne

Novelist Elizabeth Hay on David Milne's Painting Place III and Canada.

• 15 mins

Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Hallgrimur Helgason on Fish Processing in Eyjafjord by Kristin Jonsdottir

Hallgrimur Helgason on Kristin Jonsdottir's Fish Processing in Eyjafjord and Iceland.

• 15 mins

Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Mette Moestrup on Pia Arke's Camera Obscura

Mette Moestrup on Pia Arke's Camera Obscura and Denmark and Greenland.

• 15 mins

Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Ray Hudson on Touching Fire by Carolyn Reed

Ray Hudson on Carolyn Reed's Touching Fire and the US state of Alaska.

• 15 mins

Art in a Cold Climate

Art in a Cold Climate: Thomas Hylland Eriksen on the Holmenkollen Ski-Jumping Hill

Thomas Hylland Eriksen on Oslo's now-demolished Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill and Norway.

• 15 mins

Religion in the North

Winter Solstice: Hanne Orstavik

Novelist Hanne Orstavik on her childhood memories of Sami winter solstice legends.

• 15 mins

Religion in the North

Forests and Faith under the Northern Lights

Per Rosenberg on wooden churches in Scandinavia and the symbolic importance of the forest.

• 15 mins

Religion in the North

Norse Mythology: Karl Seigfried

Karl Seigfried explores Nordic Yule myths and why Norse mythology still speaks to people.

• 15 mins

Religion in the North

Christmas Father: Lars Petter Sveen

Lars Petter Sveen recalls growing up in an atheist family.

• 15 mins

Religion in the North

A Swedish Christmas: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown recalls his experience of a Swedish Christmas.

• 15 mins

Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"

Robert Worby reflects on the first performance of John Cage's 4'33".

• 15 mins

Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Sara Mohr-Pietsch on the appetite in the west for eastern European music after 1989.

• 15 mins

Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Ivan Hewett on Brian Eno's Music for Airports

Ivan Hewett reflects on Brian Eno's creation of a new genre, which he named ambient music.

• 15 mins

Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs

Sarah Walker reflects on Steve Reich's radically minimalist Four Organs.

• 15 mins

Five Seismic Moments in New Music

Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone?

Tom Service reflects on the lack of any seismic shocks in 21st-century music.

• 15 mins

Listener, They Wore It

James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1

Art historian James Fox describes an intriguing 1860s painting of a girl in a white dress.

• 14 mins

Listener, They Wore It

Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse

Rachel Cooke on a famous pair of 'peddle pushers' in the novel Bonjour Tristesse.

• 14 mins

Listener, They Wore It

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

Stephen Bayley celebrates some timeless eyewear, carried off brilliantly in a famous film.

• 14 mins

Listener, They Wore It

F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

Justine Picardie, editor of Harper's Bazaar, celebrates Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.

• 14 mins

Listener, They Wore It

Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Journalist John Walsh recalls a pristine white suit in a short story by Ray Bradbury.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers (Series 2)

Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube

Radio 3 presenter Fiona Talkington celebrates French composer Joseph Canteloube.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers (Series 2)

Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams

Radio 3 presenter and poet Ian McMillan celebrates the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers (Series 2)

Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu

Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates Romanian composer George Enescu

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers (Series 2)

John Toal on Maurice Ravel

Radio 3 presenter John Toal celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel.

• 14 mins

Secret Admirers (Series 2)

Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley

Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny celebrates English composer Lennox Berkeley.

• 14 mins