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

The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022

How video games interpret stories about war and conflict and help to train troops.

• 44 mins

Plastic and Clay

The extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.

• 44 mins

George Bernard Shaw

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the arguments explored in the plays of Shaw (1856-1950)

• 51 mins

Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu

Jane Smiley, Christopher Prendergast, Jayne Haynes, Marie Darrieussecq with Matthew Sweet

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Net Zero Design

How can local communities play a role in cutting carbon emissions?

• 28 mins

New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022

Benjamin Franklin in the Lakes, the former slave who invented light bulbs, ganzflicker

• 41 mins

Experimental writing

Shahidha Bari, Matthew Herbert, the Goldsmith Prize winners and poet Stephen Sexton

• 44 mins

Going Underground

Shahidha Bari and guests discuss caves: from Nottingham to Borneo, in art and stories.

• 43 mins

St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche

Rana Mitter discusses three major theorists of religion and self-development

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Game of Thrones and history

Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about tv depicting history

• 30 mins