Pogroms and Prejudice

Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism from Russian history to the present day

• 14 mins

Egyptian Satire

Dina Rezk explores the power of humour and protest

• 12 mins

1922: The Lincoln Memorial

Why was Lincoln the president the nation chose to commemorate in 1922?

• 17 mins

1922: The Hollywood Bowl

From a season of starlit concerts in 1922 to the USA’s principal outdoor concert venue

• 20 mins

New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?

John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th century age of exploration

• 45 mins

The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.

• 45 mins

Immortality

Matthew Sweet & guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature, film and myth

• 44 mins

Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

The Normans

Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today

• 44 mins

The Black Country - past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region

• 44 mins

The Black Country - past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region

• 44 mins

Ibsen

New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays from Lucinda Coxon & Steve Waters.

• 43 mins

Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance

Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

John Cowper Powys

John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'

• 54 mins

My Neighbour Totoro

Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film

• 44 mins

Female power and influence past and present

Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro

• 44 mins

How We Read

Our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text explored by Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Miles Davis and On The Corner

Matthew Sweet and guests explore this genre-stretching album released on 11th Oct 1972

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Accents

From variations of Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice

• 45 mins

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

• 44 mins

Romanticism Revisited

Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open

• 45 mins

British Academy Book Prize 2022

Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

• 45 mins

Oliver Postgate

Matthew Sweet and guests on the creator of children's TV classics including The Clangers.

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Dead Languages

John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the language of Ancient Pompeii

• 44 mins

Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

The Nobel Prize winning novelist is joined by academics Michael Talbot and Keya Anjaria

• 44 mins

Ghostwatch

Matthew Sweet on the 1992 TV horror

• 45 mins

New Thinking: Beowulf

Short: How studying grammar and computer games can explain Old English poetry

• 30 mins

Alexander the Great

Military leader, city founder, underwater explorer?! Rana Mitter on images of Alexander

• 45 mins

Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics

Andrea Wulf, author of a new group biography set in 1790s Jena joins Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

John Knox

A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.

• 44 mins