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

A Body of Essays: Series 3

The Eyes

Poet Abi Curtis considers how our eyes both connect us to and alienate us from the world.

• 14 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 3

The Blood

Poet Kayo Chingoni chooses the blood, and reveals a tragic personal story of HIV AIDS.

• 14 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 3

The Ear

Author Patrick McGuinness explores the grottiness of the labyrinthine ear.

• 14 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 3

The Nose

Scottish writer AL Kennedy reflects on the ability of our nose to conjure memories.

• 14 mins

Minds at War: Series 5

Episode 1

The impact of World War One on great artists through the prism of a single work of art.

• 14 mins

Minds at War: Series 5

Episode 2

The impact of World War One explored through single works of art by great artists.

• 14 mins

Minds at War: Series 5

Episode 3

The impact of World War One on great artists through the prism of a single work of art.

• 14 mins

Minds at War: Series 5

Episode 4

The impact of World War One on great artists through the prism of a single work of art.

• 14 mins

Letters to Artists

Dear Albrecht Dürer

Ian Sansom thanks Albrecht Durer for his instructive, selfless vanity.

• 14 mins

Letters to Artists

Dear Picasso

Ian Sansom asks Picasso about his mid-life crisis.

• 14 mins

Letters to Artists

Dear Julia Margaret Cameron

Ian Sansom pens a missive to Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

• 14 mins

Letters to Artists

Dear Frida Kahlo

Ian Sansom wonders how Frida Kahlo feels about her merchandise.

• 14 mins

Letters to Artists

Dear Caravaggio

Ian Sansom corresponds with Caravaggio on the links between fine art and violence.

• 14 mins

Contagious Cities

HIV AIDS in Nairobi: Polly of Kinshasa Street, by Okwiri Oduor

Five international writers consider an epidemic from the viewpoint of their own city

• 20 mins

Contagious Cities

Polio in New York, by Dava Sobel

Five international writers consider an epidemic from the viewpoint of their own city.

• 20 mins

Contagious Cities

Zika in Maceio, North East Brazil by Debora Diniz

Five international writers consider an epidemic from the view point of their own city.

• 20 mins

Contagious Cities

London and TB. TB Stories by Frances Wilson

Five international writers consider an epidemic from the view point of their own city

• 20 mins

Contagious Cities

SARS in Hong Kong, by Dorothy Tse

Five international writers consider an epidemic from the viewpoint of their own city

• 20 mins