Italy Outdoors

La Strada

Writer Polly Coles reads the second of her essays about Italy’s public spaces, La Strada.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

Walls

Writer Polly Coles reads Walls, the third essay in her series about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Garden

Writer Polly Coles reads The Garden, her fourth essay about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Church

Writer Polly Coles reads The Church, her final essay about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Dinogad's Jerkin – The oldest lullaby in Britain

Poet and musician Twm Morys tells the story of the oldest lullaby in Britain.

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Ma-Hw

Twm Morys looks at the poetry of ploughing songs

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms

Poet Twm Morys delves into the cultural links between Brittany and Wales

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Devils

Twm Morys tells the story of Jack Ystumllyn, an African man in North Wales in the 1770s

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Why the Lloyd George museum is so small

Twm Morys looks into the reputation of Lloyd George in the village of his birth

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Origins

Since early childhood, Joanna Robertson has been lured by both real and fictional food.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Artists

Joanna Robertson's deep connection with food leads her to top artists and musicians.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Disorder

Joanna Robertson's deep and intimate relationship with food goes disastrously wrong.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Family

Joanna Robertson's deep connection with food has created families, and changed them.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Fate

Joanna Robertson now lives in France, but more despite the food than because of it.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

Music: The First Theory of Everything

Listen to the harmony of the heavens with astronomer Dr Stuart Clark.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

The Sound of the Moon

Can you resist the music of the sirens? Dr Stuart Clark continues his cosmic journey.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

Our Inner Music

What's your inner harmony? Dr Stuart Clark explores the first theory of everything.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

Music and Astronomy in Crisis

The first theory of everything starts to fall apart.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

The True Harmony of the Universe

5/5 Kepler figures out what the universe really sounds like.

• 15 mins

Forests

The Wood Beyond the World

Enjoy the lush, romantic delights of the Pre-Raphaelite forest.

• 14 mins

Forests

Brothers Grimm

Dare to enter the dark Germanic forest of the Brothers Grimm.

• 14 mins

Forests

Mirkwood

The forests of Middle Earth explored by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.

• 14 mins

Forests

The Jungle Book

Join Mowgli and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in the forest of Kipling's imagination

• 14 mins

Forests

100 Acre Wood

Brian Sibley guides Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough around the home of Winnie the Pooh.

• 14 mins

Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters

Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures in light of her own animal phobia.

• 14 mins

Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin

Sean O'Brien returns to his native Hull to consider the work of two very different poets.

• 14 mins

Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes

Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia

Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood.

• 14 mins

Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes and the River of Time

Poet Zaffar Kunial explores Ted Hughes's personal obsession with dates and anniversaries.

• 14 mins

Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes and Tenderness

Poet Simon Armitage talks about finding an unexpected in tenderness Ted Hughes's work.

• 14 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 3

The Liver

British Pakistani poet Imtiaz Dharker regards the liver as the true seat of our feelings.

• 14 mins