Music on the Brink of Destruction

Shirli Gilbert reveals the complex history of music composed in the Nazi camps and ghettos

• 45 mins

Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle

The story of how three trips to South America in the 1950s changed Pierre Boulez's life.

• 45 mins

Savage Pilgrims

Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates the artistic community of New Mexico.

• 45 mins

The Experimenters

Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how Black Mountain College launched many American artists.

• 45 mins

King Kong - the Township Jazz Musical

Soweto Kinch discovers the remarkable story behind the apartheid-era musical, King Kong.

• 45 mins

John Ruskin's Eurhythmic Girls

Samira Ahmed explores how Victorian art critic John Ruskin revolutionised girls' education

• 44 mins

Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit

Kevin LeGendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.

• 45 mins

Opera across the Waves

Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.

• 45 mins

Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan?

Ken Hollings reassesses the life and career of 1960s media theorist Marshall McLuhan.

• 44 mins

Hitting the High Notes

Sally Marlow investigates why many jazz musicians turned to heroin in the post-war period.

• 45 mins

I Know an Island - RM Lockley

Jon Gower uncovers the work of pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.

• 60 mins

v. is for Tony

Paul Farley presents a profile of a unique poet, playwright and director, Tony Harrison.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: A Square Dance in Heaven

The Rev Lucy Winkett takes a musical tour of the Reformation.

• 45 mins

Reformation 500

Chris Bowlby explores how the Reformation shaped German culture and what it means today.

• 45 mins

Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi's Women

Catherine Fletcher measures the impact of Monteverdi's real and fictional female figures.

• 45 mins

The Dvorak Statement

Mahan Esfahani discovers the past and present of African-American classical music.

• 45 mins

The Bloomsbury Lighthouse

Tracing Graham Greene, George Orwell, AL Lloyd and Laurie Lee's WWII propaganda careers.

• 45 mins

The Killers

Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story The Killers

• 45 mins

Frost-Heron

How St Ives abstract artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron formed an unlikely friendship.

• 45 mins

Grid

Exploring the grid as the great hidden idea behind modernism, art, music and urban design.

• 44 mins

Geeking Glenn Gould

James Rhodes goes in hunt of his boyhood hero, Candian pianist Glenn Gould.

• 45 mins

From the Ashes

Allan Little explores the history of the post-war arts festivals of Europe.

• 45 mins

Ginsberg in India

Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s.

• 45 mins

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