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Our Souls So Knit
Caroline Bird uncovers poet Michael Field, AKA Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper.
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A’ Chùil
We meet Choirstaidh in her studio to find out more about arts and crafts.
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Peter Brook
Glenda Jackson's exclusive interview with world famous theatre director Peter Brook.
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Recall of the Rock
The poet Helen Mort imagines what mountains might remember of the women who climb them.
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In Ten Pictures
A series of extraordinary lives, each unlocked by a just a handful of images.
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The Day the Muzak Died
Part love letter, part obituary to the music of Muzak Corporation.
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Daughters of the Snow
Poet Himali Singh Soin explores the North Pole as a mythologised space in literature.
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Inventions in Sound
The poet Raymond Antrobus explores the art of translating sound for the eye.
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Future Art
James Fox steps into the future to ask how technology is transforming the art world.
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The Price of Song
John Wilson investigates the value of the songs that provide the soundtracks to our lives.
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Shock Waves
Five artists chronicle how they have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Lost Sounds Orchestra
Sounds of the past to come to life through the technology of the present.
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Sheridan's Showstoppers
Sheridan Smith's musicals podcast in which she's joined by a guest in every episode.
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Sci-Fi Blindness
Peter White explores science fiction's enduring fascination with blindness.
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A Plague On All Our Houses
How Covid is making us think differently about Shakespeare.
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When Will Theatre Come Black?
As the sector rebuilds, Bridget Minamore imagines a new future for Black British theatre.
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Poems at Dusk
Poet Theresa Lola explores the relationship between poetry, old age and mortality.
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Tracey Dobbs: Images That Last a Lifetime
Tracey Dobbs is a Welsh photographer creating children's images that last a lifetime
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Can I Still Read Harry Potter?
A fan of the boy wizard explores what it means to stop reading a beloved book.
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Britain in Ten Operas
Roderick Williams investigates what our opera history tells us about British identity.
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Michael Morpurgo's Folk Journeys
Michael Morpurgo travels to the heart of some of the greatest songs ever composed.
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Inside Culture
A look at the latest culture and media through the eyes of creators and audiences.
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
Miles Jupp investigates how to write an unputdownable story.
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Beacons: Short Films from Wales
Short films produced through Ffilm Cymru and BFI Network's Beacons scheme.
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Life, Death and the Foghorn
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a eulogy for the disappearance of the foghorn.
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Simon Schama: The Great Gallery Tours
Simon Schama conducts a virtual tour of fourworld-class galleries.
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Art of Persia
Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.
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Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line
Celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter.
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Unchained
Poet Brenda Birungi shares personal accounts of criminal justice that's failing women.
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Out of Soweto: BCUC
Sound African band BCUC's journey from their rehearsal space in Soweto to Glastonbury
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Eighteen
Exploring the lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18- to 21-year-old global artists.
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
The story of a truly singular talent, unpacking the myth of the man behind the horn.
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Night Vision
A new after hours series re-imagining a long night of the soul that left its mark.
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Lift Going Up
Emma Clarke plays the voice of the lift in this cultural history of the elevator
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Curating the Future
V&A Director Tristram Hunt explores the new challenges facing the world's oldest museums.
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Dolly Parton: Here I Am
A fascinating documentary charting the extraordinary life and music of Dolly Parton.
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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
Adrian Dunbar explores what made the man who wrote Waiting for Godot.
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Two Northern Ireland
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Hear For Life
Behind the scenes of the latest Open Call project from Artangel and Radio 4.
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The Big Scottish Book Club
Damian Barr interviews some of the biggest names in fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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China's Greatest Treasures
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ art historian Alastair Sooke travels through China to explore its greatest treasures.
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Schama on Blake
Simon Schama with his view of William Blake, the visionary printmaker, poet and painter.
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September 1, 1939
The creation and unexpected afterlife of WH Auden's poem September 1, 1939.
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A Singer's Guide to Britain
Roderick Williams gets on the road to tell the stories of Britain through our songs.
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Manchester International Festival
Coverage from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ of the Manchester International Festival
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