Donald Macleod focuses on two very different facets of Elgar's musical personality. Drama Available now
There are currently 22 available episodes
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Drama on 3 Babbage
David Pownall's drama about Charles Babbage, frustrated inventor of the computer.
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Words and Music Three
Texts and music evoking the power of three. Readers: Hattie Morahan and Jonathan Slinger.
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Twenty Minutes From Buddenbrooks
Adrian Scarborough reads from Thomas Mann's classic novel set in the mid-1800s.
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Twenty Minutes Lizzie's Tiger
In Angela Carter's story a circus tiger shapes the destiny of the notorious Lizzie Borden.
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Twenty Minutes The Modern Soul
In Katherine Mansfield's story, guests at a German pension perform in a private concert.
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Twenty Minutes Dimanche
Irene Nemirovsky's story of a mother and daughter confronting the vagaries of love.
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Night Waves Free Thinking 2009, Sport or the Arts
Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.
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Night Waves Free Thinking 2009, Sarah Hall/Hugh Pym/Speed Dating with a Thinker
Highlights from Free Thinking 2009, including Sarah Hall on the sources of her writing.
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Night Waves Free Thinking 2009, Lionel Shriver/Ian McMillan
Lionel Shriver talks to Anne McElvoy about her novel A Perfectly Good Family.
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Night Waves Free Thinking 2009, Tom Shakespeare
Talk by Tom Shakespeare on how art can help us understand today's difficult moral issues.
