Presented by Matthew Sweet. With critic Frank Kermode and a debate on studying Engl...
Philip Dodd talks to leading German poet and intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a review of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slipp...
A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and W...
Janet Todd considers Mary Wollstonecraft alongside other great Enlightenment thinke...
Writer Ian Sansom reflects on dress, class and the philosophical life.
Ian McMillan presents. Featuring Muriel Spark's work and singer-songwriter Sean Tay...
Don Taylor's adaptation of a stage version of Cervantes's classic picaresque novel.
Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning theatre director Deborah Warner.
Donald Macleod investigates just how famous Moszkowski was.
Catherine Bott, Laurence Dreyfus and Phantasm on the Golden Age of English viol mus...
Tom Service on Purcell's influence on British musical life from the 20th century to...
Peter Curran is joined by Alison Steadman, Meera Syal and Raymond Blanc.
Brian Matthew celebrates the golden age of British dance bands.
Curtis Stigers remembers clarinettist and bandleader Benny Goodman in his centenary...
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of organ music by Purcell and his contemporarie...
Richard Farnes conducts an Opera North production of Massenet's opera Werther.
Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks and Spencer...
Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive drinking was about to take its t...