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The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes

  1. Wordsworth - Poet of the People

    How two great thinkers, Wordsworth and Adam Smith, responded to the Industrial Revolution

  2. Why Music?

    Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.

  3. Whatcha doin’, Marshall McLuhan

    Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of intellectual and media guru Marshall McLuhan

  4. Wesker at 80

    Sunday Feature: As Arnold Wesker celebrates his 80th birthday Matthew Sweet looks back...

  5. WATERLOG

    Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.

  6. Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams: The Print and the Performance

    Vladimir Ashkenazy reveals how music inspired the art of the photographer Ansel Adams.

  7. v. is for Tony

    To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley profiles the unique poet. (R)

  8. v. is for Tony

    To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.

  9. Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus

    Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of...

  10. Too Many Artists

    Paul Morley asks "Can there be too many artists in the world?"

  11. Tony Harrison's Prague Spring

    How one of Britain's best known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.

  12. Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon

    In 1812 Napoleon led his army to Moscow. In War and Peace Tolstoy gave his account of...

  13. 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.

  14. The Women Who Staged The Rising

    Marie-Louise Muir explores the impact Woman and theatre had on the 1916 Easter Rising.

  15. 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.

  16. The Venice Ghetto

    Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.

  17. The Summer Forest

    Once upon a time, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough woke up in the summer forest.

  18. The secrets of the Music Reading Panel

    What was the BBC's panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.

  19. The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled

    Robert Worby on how post-war German radio was conscripted to fight the cultural cold war.

  20. 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.

  21. The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes

    Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?

  22. The Queen Of Technicolor

    Maureen O’Hara’s journey from Dublin's suburbs to star of the Golden Age.

  23. The Other Third

    Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third

  24. The Other Third

    Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third.

  25. The Other Iran

    Mahan Esfahani visits Azerbaijan to explore the effect of a border on musical cultures.

  26. The Kristapurana

    Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.

  27. The Killers

    Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.

  28. The Invisible Theatre

    Tom Service and others explore the history of the festival theatre in Bayreuth that of...

  29. The Hidden Reservoir

    Carlo Gebler on the role of art in remembrance and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

  30. The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits 1: Vortigern

    Barry Cunliffe on the king whom history has often held responsible for inviting in the...

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