From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

White South African Food

Lindsay Johns finds out about the place of meat in white South African cuisines.

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From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Coloured South African Food

Lindsay Johns introduces us to snoek, pickled fish and the Gatsby steak sandwich.

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From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

South African Indian Food

Lindsay Johns introduces us to bunny chow, a curry dish invented in Durban.

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From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Cape Malay South African Cuisine

Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns completes his exploration of South African food.

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Art from the Outside

Adolf Wölfli

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

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Art from the Outside

Madge Gill

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

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Art from the Outside

Mary Barnes

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

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Art from the Outside

Minnie Evans

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

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Art from the Outside

Shinichi Sawada

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

• 14 mins

Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

The Paradise Crater

Sarah Dillon tells us about the nuclear short story by atomic energy adviser Philip Wylie.

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Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

Iola Leroy

Xine Yao reads the first novel by African American writer Frances EW Harper (1825-1911).

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Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

Tales from the Garbage Hills

Sarah Jilani reads Latife Tekin’s magical realist novel about 1960s Istanbul shanty towns.

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Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

The Heir of Redclyffe

Clare Walker-Gore revisits Charlotte M Yonge's best-selling novel from 1853.

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Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

1000 Coils of Fear

Tom Smith reads Olivia Wenzel’s novel, which was longlisted for 2020's German Book Prize.

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Walking the Causeways

Patrick Gale

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, St Michael’s Mount.

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Walking the Causeways

Evie Wyld

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, the Isle of Wight.

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Walking the Causeways

Claire McGowan

Five writers walk us along the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, Burgh Island.

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Walking the Causeways

WN Herbert

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, Lindisfarne.

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Walking the Causeways

Ben Cottam

Five writers take us along the routes of tidal causeways. Today, Sunderland Point.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Out to Open Water

Jon Gower explores the relationship between Wales and the Irish Sea.

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Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Whipping Up a Storm

How the water west of Wales is a bringer of bounteous gifts but a wrecker of ships too.

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Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Putting the Whales in Wales

Jon Gower tells the story of the arrival of American Quaker émigrés at Milford Haven.

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Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Shearwater Nights

Jon Gower gives an account of a rare species of bird found on the Welsh coastal islands.

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Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

What Has the Sea Become

Jon Gower recounts how the herring trade has brought Wales great fortune over the years.

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Re: Cycling

My Life on a Bike

Writer Andrew Martin casts an affectionate eye over his long and colourful cycling career.

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Re: Cycling

The Cyclist as Overdog and Underdog

Andrew Martin considers the changing politics of cycling over the ages.

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Re: Cycling

Cycling Apparel

Andrew Martin examines the intriguingly flamboyant history of cycling attire.

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Re: Cycling

A Bike Ride

Andrew Martin and his bike catch a train to Derby to enjoy a long leisurely country cycle.

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Re: Cycling

Reasons to Cycle

There’s never been a better time to get on our bikes insists cycling devotee Andrew Martin

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A family of witches

Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.

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