The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Wordsworth - Poet of the People
How two great thinkers, Wordsworth and Adam Smith, responded to the Industrial Revolution
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Why Music?
Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.
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Whatcha doin’, Marshall McLuhan
Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of intellectual and media guru Marshall McLuhan
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Wesker at 80
Sunday Feature: As Arnold Wesker celebrates his 80th birthday Matthew Sweet looks back...
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WATERLOG
Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams: The Print and the Performance
Vladimir Ashkenazy reveals how music inspired the art of the photographer Ansel Adams.
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v. is for Tony
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley profiles the unique poet. (R)
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v. is for Tony
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.
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Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus
Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of...
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Too Many Artists
Paul Morley asks "Can there be too many artists in the world?"
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Tony Harrison's Prague Spring
How one of Britain's best known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
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Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon
In 1812 Napoleon led his army to Moscow. In War and Peace Tolstoy gave his account of...
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This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France
Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.
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Then there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the week
How famous German avant-garde composer Stockhausen wrote an opera for each day of the week
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The Women Who Staged The Rising
Marie-Louise Muir explores the impact Woman and theatre had on the 1916 Easter Rising.
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The Way I See It: John Waters on Lee Lozano's Untitled 1963
American film director John Waters makes his selection from the MoMA collection.
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The Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt
The Victorian women who brought the treasures of Ancient Egypt to northern England
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The Venice Ghetto
Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.
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The Summer Forest
Once upon a time, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough woke up in the summer forest.
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The Silence of My Pain
Hannah French explores a hidden disability for many musicians: pain.
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The secrets of the Music Reading Panel
What was the BBC's panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled
Robert Worby on how post-war German radio was conscripted to fight the cultural cold war.
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The Radio 3 Documentary: King Kong - the Township Jazz Musical (rpt, Reel Soul Movies Ltd)
Soweto Kinch uncovers the extraordinary story of King Kong, the township jazz musical.
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes
Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?
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The Queen Of Technicolor
Maureen O’Hara’s journey from Dublin's suburbs to star of the Golden Age.
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The Other Third
Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third
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The Other Third
Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third.
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The Other Iran
Mahan Esfahani visits Azerbaijan to explore the effect of a border on musical cultures.
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The Kristapurana
Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.
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The Killers
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.