Hear Listening

How I See With My Feet

Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

Becoming What You Are

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

Under the Mountain

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

For Everyone and No-One

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

A Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

On Holiday with Nietzsche

The Art of Ending

Writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 14 mins

From the Source

Gaelic Waters

Folk singer Julie Fowlis conjures kelpies, selkies and waterfall banshees from Gaelic song

• 14 mins

From the Source

Medway Mudlarks

Driftwood, a Victorian poison bottle and a sailor's lost boot. Potent inspiration for art.

• 14 mins

From the Source

The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

Once lead singer of The Undertones, Feargel Sharkey now gets his kicks from rod and line.

• 14 mins

From the Source

The Power of the Thames

Helen Czerski shares a physicist's view of the River Thames

• 14 mins

From the Source

Swimming the Avon

Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett swims the River Avon in search of inspiration.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Fiona Stafford

Reflections on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe, from the 2019 Hay Festival.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Horatio Clare

Horatio Clare explores the castaway myth.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle reflects on Robinson Crusoe's themes of imperialism and slavery.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Alys Conran

Alys Conran reflects on what it's like to read Robinson Crusoe as a novelist.

• 14 mins

Hay Festival 2019

Daniel Hahn

The Essay from Hay Festival 2019

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

Dodo

An elderly woman finds herself trapped in a small aircraft heading for disaster.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

The Dead Dad Show

A would-be comedian has a strange encounter on the train from London to Edinburgh.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

Reluctant Spirit

A young girl with a disability describes her relationship with her mother.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

Every Night

A man with compulsive cravings finds unexpected solace when he meets a young woman.

• 14 mins

Music Monologues

Le Festival de Men

A young woman looks for love at the first-ever Festival de Men.

• 14 mins

Masculinity

The Well-Groomed Georgian

Alun Withey on what made 18th-century men shave off centuries of manly growth.

• 14 mins

Masculinity

Sword to Pen: Redcoat and the Rise of the Military Memoir

Emma Butcher on the publishing phenomenon that was the traumatised Napoleonic Redcoat

• 14 mins

Masculinity

Comrades in Arms

Tom Smith on the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality

• 14 mins

Masculinity

'Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?' The History of the Three-Piece Suit

Sarah Goldsmith on an immortal trio jacket, waistcoat and trousers.

• 14 mins

Masculinity

The Hard Man in the Call Centre

Alistair Fraser on the fates and fortunes of Glaswegian tough guys.

• 14 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Wigmore Hall

Pianist Stephen Hough on Wigmore Hall and how its 'shoebox' design catches the ear.

• 15 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Gladstone's Library

Novelist Melissa Harrison on the joy of 'sleeping with books' at Gladstone's Library.

• 14 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Chingle Hall

Andrew Hurley on the haunting qualities of a 17th-century manor house near Preston.

• 15 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Hafod Eryri

Travel writer Phoebe Smith on Hafod Eryri and the chutzpah of building on mountains.

• 15 mins