Alex La Guma - The Black Dickens

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

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Radio Controlled

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

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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.

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A Portrait of Val Wilmer

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

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Concerto: The One and the Many

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

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Blind, Black and Blue

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

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A Symphony of Psalms

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

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Too Many Artists?

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

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Exit Burbage - the man who created Hamlet

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

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Supernatural Japan

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

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Japan's Never-Ending War

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

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Oh Dr Kinsey, Look What You've Done to Me!

Matthew Sweet looks at the impact of the Kinsey Report, first published seventy years ago.

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Under the Water

Maritime archaeologists race against time and the tide at a submerged Mesolithic site.

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The Summer Forest

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the cultural and ecological glories of the summer forest.

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Binary and Beyond

Binary and Beyond 1/2

Might explorations of gender in great art of the past help illuminate today's issues?

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Binary and Beyond

Binary and Beyond 2/2

Might explorations of gender in great art of the past illuminate current gender issues?

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Tony Harrison's Prague Spring

How one of Britain's best-known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.

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Philip French and the Critical Ear

Laurence Scott on radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French.

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The Bernstein Files

Journalist Jonathan Coffey opens the secret FBI files on Leonard Bernstein.

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Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before

A parrot, a Dr Who, a Detectorist, and a National Treasure help a Seeker resurrect Ken.

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The Nature of Creativity

As nature disappears, are we losing what has inspired our creativity for generations?

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A Portrait of Parry

Simon Heffer argues for a new understanding of Sir Hubert Parry

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Forests of the imagination

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.

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Inside Stories

Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation

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New Generation Thinkers. 1 of 2

Two Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers with stories from medieval and Victorian Britain.

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New Generation Thinkers 2/2

Two NGAs ask: is it wrong to have children? Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare?

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The Ruhleben Legacy

Revealing how life in a German internment camp shaped the course of classical music.

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The Kristapurana

The travels of the first Englishman in India, and the hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.

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Harlem on Fire

Afua Hirsch goes in search of a long-lost masterpiece from the Harlem Renaissance.

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Tales from the Caspian Sea

Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the rich cultural history of the Caspian Sea.

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