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Episodes from Sunday Feature broadcast in 2009

December
  1. Liquid Assets: Handel's Finances
    BBC business correspondent Peter Day looks at Handel's financial dealings. (R)
  2. Tasty!
    Cultural historian Richard Weight explores how we decide what is tasty.
  3. Closer to Blood than Ink
    Nick Rankin on how Neruda saved thousands from the Spanish Civil War. But was he a hero?
  4. Exploring Our Amazement: Poetry and Its Audience
    Julian May investigates the changing relationship between poetry and its audience.
November
  1. The Good Old Days?
    Billy Bragg on the Victorian music hall, considered Britain's original urban folk music.
  2. Movie Nights in Moscow
    Rana Mitter travels to Moscow to explore the new Russia through its cinema.
  3. The Muse of Censorship
    Did artistic achievement in Eastern Europe collapse in 1989 along with the Berlin Wall?
  4. Painting Lolita
    Laura Cumming explores the controversial history of the child nude in art.
October
  1. Ideas - The British Version (Series 2)
    The Garden City
    3/3. Tristram Hunt follows the surprising journey of the utopian 'garden city' idea.
  2. Ideas - The British Version (Series 2)
    The Separation of Powers
    2/3. Tristram Hunt explores the idea behind the new UK Supreme Court - the separation of powers
September
  1. Ideas - The British Version (Series 2)
    Heartland Theory
    1/3. Tristram Hunt on how British geopolitics spread to Nazi Germany and the Cold War USA.
  2. Deep France, Deep Problem?
    Writer Adam Thorpe explores the darker stories underlying sunny, smiling southern France.
  3. Flowers in the Backyard - China and its Minority Cultures
    Isabel Hilton reports from Beijing on China's relationship with its minority cultures. (R)
  4. Rebellion and Fear: Artists in the Great War
    Richard Cork on how the First World War influenced Europe's early avant-garde artists. (R)
  5. Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival
    Dennis Mark travels to New York to discover what has become of the Yiddish language. (R)
  6. For the Island I Sing
    Poet Kenneth Steven visits Orkney, the island where George Mackay Brown spent his life.
  7. From Ecstasy to Infinity
    Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores science and mathematics in the arts of the baroque (R)
  8. Dr Rowan Williams
    Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, explores the realms of silence. (R)
  9. Buying a Culture in Abu Dhabi
    Anthony Sattin explores the attempts in Abu Dhabi to 'buy culture'. (R)
  10. Hark: An Acoustic Archaeology of Elizabethan England
    Chris Brookes and Alan Hall sift the sound-worlds of two modern English environments. (R)
August
  1. Smashing the Idols
    Writer Andrew Brown explores the cultural and theological legacy of Calvinism.
  2. The First War on Terror
    Hari Kunzru on writers' responses to the Anarchists of the Victorian and Edwardian era. (R)
  3. Paradise or Nightmare - DH Lawrence in Cornwall
    Looking at the DH Lawrence's time in Cornwall after the bad reception of The Rainbow. (R)
  4. Creating Burns's Reputation
    Robert Crawford on why Robert Burns was a poet and songwriter of international importance. (R)
  5. Inside the Art Schools
    Michael Bracewell discovers how today's art students realise their creative ambitions. (R)
  6. Darwin's Conundrum
    An exploration of what Charles Darwin really thought about faith and religion. (R)
  7. The Origins of the Origin
    Andrew Cunningham traces the roots of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. (R)
  8. John Milton's Adventurous Song
    David Norbrook traces Milton from his age to ours, and considers his importance today. (R)
  9. Vril
    Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, an all-powerful Victorian fictional energy source. (R)
  10. Les Ballets Russes
    Dance critic Judith Mackrell tells the story of infamous dance company Les Ballets Russes.
  11. Ideas - The British Version
    The Free Market
    3/3. Tristram Hunt examines the legacy of the father of economics - Adam Smith. (R)
  12. Ideas - The British Version
    Episode 2
    2/3. Tristram Hunt looks at the birth of a 'middle way' between the Left and raw capitalism. (R)
  13. Ideas - The British Version
    Episode 1
    1/3. Tristram Hunt examines the legacy of John Locke's writings on religious toleration. (R)
  14. Searching for Alfred in the Shadow of Tennyson
    Ruth Padel searches for the real Tennyson behind the poetry and investigates his legacy.
July
  1. Homer's Landscapes
    The Odyssey
    3/3. Adam Nicolson visits the locations of Odysseus's journey home in Homer's Odyssey. (R)
  2. Homer's Landscapes
    Homer's Landscapes: The Iliad
    2/3. Focusing on the locations of the Trojan War featured in Homer's Iliad. (R)
  3. Homer's Landscapes
    The Poet and His World
    1/3. Focusing on the locations from where Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were said to have come. (R)
  4. Simone Weil
    Michael Symmons Roberts examines the short life of the French philosopher Simone Weil.
  5. The Black Cube
    Navid Akhtar talks about the Ka'aba, a shrine in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (R)
  6. The state of Tel Aviv
    Moshe Morad meets people in Tel Aviv, a modern city in an ancient land.
  7. Remember, Remember
    Susan Blackmore explores how we are outsourcing the memory of our lives to digital devices (R)
June
  1. Travelling the Great Divide - The New US-Mexico Border
    Claudine LoMonaco examines the impact of the US-Mexico border and its new fortifications.
  2. Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth
    Stephen Johnson presents an elegiac portrait of Vaughan Williams the man and composer. (R)
  3. A Brief History of Cunning
    American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the history of cunning through the ages. (R)
  4. Chaos and Creation
    An exploration of the mythology and the science of the origins of the universe.
May
  1. Children of the Whitsun Weddings
    Poets Paul Farley and Kate Royal discuss their admiration for Philip Larkin's poetry.
  2. Broken Images
    Louisa Buck discusses the life and work of British painter Francis Bacon. (R)
  3. The Life and Times of Michael X
    The story of Michael X, a former mugger who had a part in race politics in 1960s Britain.
April
  1. Leland's Travels
    David Wallace explores the life and work of scholar John Leland.
  2. Liquid Assets: Handel's Finances
    BBC business correspondent Peter Day looks at Handel's financial dealings.
  3. Wheels and Stones
    Robert Powell reads from The Wheelwright's Shop, about making wooden wheels and wagons.
March
  1. Sorochintsy Fair
    Hardeep Singh Kohli examines life and work of the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.
  2. From Ecstasy to Infinity
    Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores science and mathematics in the arts of the baroque
  3. Wee Have Also Sound-Houses
    Examining the life and legacy of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram. (R)
  4. The Black Cube
    Navid Akhtar talks about the Ka'aba, a shrine in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
February
  1. Dr Rowan Williams
    Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, explores the realms of silence.
  2. Darwin's Conundrum
    An exploration of what Charles Darwin really thought about faith and religion.
  3. The Origins of the Origin
    Andrew Cunningham traces the roots of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
  4. Killing the King
    Justin Champion considers new research about the trial and execution of Charles I.
January
  1. Creating Burns's Reputation
    Robert Crawford on why Robert Burns was a poet and songwriter of international importance.
  2. A Tale of Two Skulls
    Artist Jane Wildgoose traces the history of two human skulls in her private collection. (R)
  3. Inside the Art Schools
    Michael Bracewell discovers how today's art students realise their creative ambitions.
  4. Vril
    Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, an all-powerful Victorian fictional energy source.
  5. Burney and Hawkins: A Tale of Two Histories
    A tale of rivalry, character assassination and social climbing in 18th century London. (R)

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