Music in Peril

Lopa Kothari considers the threats posed to Pakistan's rich tradition of Sufi music.

• 45 mins

The Battle for Henry David Thoreau

Susan Marling travels to Massachusetts to assess the legacy of Henry David Thoreau.

• 44 mins

A Life In Study: Robert Lowell

Colm Toibin profiles the brilliance and the madness of American poet Robert Lowell.

• 44 mins

Nobody Knows My Name: Notes on James Baldwin

A conversation between contemporary figures and archive recordings of James Baldwin.

• 44 mins

Every County in the State of California

A radio road movie with Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California.

• 44 mins

John Tusa's Opera Journey

John Tusa revisits the three provincial German towns where he first discovered opera.

• 60 mins

A Flapper's Guide to the Opera

Alexandra Wilson takes a flapper's journey back to 1920s' operatic London.

• 45 mins

Louisa Egbunike and Sean Williams

Two New Generation Thinkers present features on Afrofuturism and German Lieder.

• 45 mins

Emigranti - 1917 Revisited

How do Russia's latest cultural emigres feel about leaving their homeland?

• 44 mins

A Column for Infinity

Patrick McGuinness discusses Brancusi's war memorial, the Endless Column in Romania.

• 44 mins

Resurrecting Mayakovsky

Ian Sansom looks at the life and legacy of Soviet poet and artist, Vladimir Mayakovsky.

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson

In search of the Tomb of Alexander the Great, and The Voice and the Machine.

• 45 mins

Laura Ingalls' America

Samira Ahmed on how the Little House on the Prairie author is regarded in modern America.

• 44 mins

Illuminating the Stage

With flickering candles to dispel the darkness, Fiona Shaw illuminates stage light.

• 44 mins

Immortal North

A practical guide to immortality, life extension and survival in the far north.

• 44 mins

Select, Copy, Paste

Conception

How has technology changed the way we come up with ideas?

• 45 mins

Select, Copy, Paste

Execution

As technology has improved how has it enabled artists to create new kinds of work?

• 45 mins

Select, Copy, Paste

Experience

As technology has improved how has it enabled artists to create new kinds of work?

• 44 mins

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

The 40 Days of Musa Dagh was both prophecy and epic paean to survival.

• 44 mins

Alex La Guma - The Black Dickens

Lindsay Johns argues that novelist Alex La Guma is an overlooked literary colossus.

• 44 mins

Radio Controlled

Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the cultural cold war.

• 44 mins

Patrick Kavanagh: the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard

Theo Dorgan finds out why Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, who died in 1968, is so loved now.

• 44 mins

A Portrait of Val Wilmer

How has Val Wilmer become a world figure in the documentation of Black music and culture?

• 44 mins

Concerto: The One and the Many

Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.

• 44 mins

Blind, Black and Blue

Gary O'Donoghue asks why so many early blues musicians in America's Deep South were blind.

• 44 mins

A Symphony of Psalms

Cerys Matthews explores the influence of the 150 Psalms on musicians and composers.

• 44 mins

Too Many Artists?

From painting in a Paris garret to bouncing on trampolines - what is an artist today?

• 45 mins

Exit Burbage - the man who created Hamlet

Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's not well known - why?

• 44 mins

Supernatural Japan

An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.

• 44 mins

Japan's Never-Ending War

Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.

• 45 mins