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

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Watershed

Nikesh Shukla on Watershed in Bristol and how it helped him fall in love with the city.

• 15 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Glasgow School of Art

Author Louise Welsh reflects on Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art.

• 14 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Rochdale Town Hall

Novelist Beth Underdown on Rochdale Town Hall.

• 14 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Malcolm's Place, Uig, Isle of Lewis

Author James Rebanks, the Lake District shepherd, talks about Malcolm's place in Uig.

• 14 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Trinity Theatre

Writer Bridget Collins takes us backstage to Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells.

• 14 mins

Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass

Rame Head Chapel

Author Natasha Carthew on Rame Head Chapel, near Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.

• 14 mins

Mise-en-scène

Sidney Lumet and the Crisis of Liberalism

Michael Goldfarb remembers the mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 1970s.

• 14 mins

Mise-en-scène

The Meaning of Sam

Michael Goldfarb explores the mise-en-scène filmwork of Sam Peckinpah.

• 14 mins

Mise-en-scène

The Summation

Michael Goldfarb remembers the mise-en-scène filmwork of Derek Jarman.

• 14 mins

Mise-en-scène

The Ghost of the Time

Michael Goldfarb remembers the mise-en-scène films about Vietnam and Woodstock.

• 14 mins