BBC Sounds - Sunday Feature - Available Episodes

Sunday Feature

In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

Episodes (304 Available)

Sunday Feature
Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall
Actor Lily Cole plays Elizabeth Siddall who climbs out of her grave to tell her own story.
44 mins
13 Oct 2019
Sunday Feature
Moral Machinery: The Invention of Mental Healthcare
How one individual led a revolution in care for the mentally ill.
14 mins
06 Oct 2019
Sunday Feature
Al-Andalus: the Legacy
Andrew Hussey journeys through Spain in search of the legacy of Al-Andalus.
44 mins
29 Sep 2019
Sunday Feature
Judy Punches Up
Punch and Judy - unexpected feminist icons?
14 mins
22 Sep 2019
Sunday Feature
Everybody likes music, don't they?
Stories and reflections from people who have a complicated relationship with music.
44 mins
15 Sep 2019
Sunday Feature
Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR
Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany.
44 mins
14 Jul 2019
Sunday Feature
A Unicorn Quest
Short feature about unicorns from Hetta Howes one of the 2019 BBC New Generation Thinkers.
14 mins
23 Jun 2019
Sunday Feature
The Art of Rowing with Mary Wollstonecraft
Making waves - how did travelling as a single mother inspire Mary Wollstonecraft?
14 mins
16 Jun 2019
Sunday Feature
Cristiani and Her Cello
Dr Kate Kennedy explores the life and journeys of pioneer cellist Lise Cristiani.
44 mins
09 Jun 2019
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits - Golding's Lord of The Flies
Golding's classic novel was saved from being rejected by Faber by the luckiest of chances.
44 mins
02 Jun 2019
Sunday Feature
Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe marks its 300th anniversary but does it have a future?
44 mins
26 May 2019
Sunday Feature
Alexander Korda - Producer, Director, Exile, Spy
Matthew Sweet unearths movie mogul Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.
44 mins
19 May 2019
Sunday Feature
Waterlog
Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
44 mins
12 May 2019
Sunday Feature
Haus Work: Women of the Bauhaus
Olivia Horsfall Turner tells the story of the women of the radical Bauhaus school.
44 mins
28 Apr 2019
Sunday Feature
Hotel Genius
Sally Marlow uncovers the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study
44 mins
21 Apr 2019
Sunday Feature
John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of American poet John Ashbery, who died in 2017.
44 mins
07 Apr 2019
Sunday Feature
The Actors' Guide to the Emotions
Shahidha Bari traces the changing portrayal of emotions on the stage.
44 mins
07 Apr 2019
Sunday Feature
Harmony of the Spheres
Going in search of the music at the centre of our cosmos: the Harmony of the Spheres.
44 mins
31 Mar 2019
Sunday Feature
The Deluxe Edition
Sean Williams takes a first-class journey through the enduring contradictions of luxury.
44 mins
24 Mar 2019
Sunday Feature
Gabriel Prokofiev - My Family and Russia
The shifting relationship between Russian music and the state across three generations.
44 mins
17 Mar 2019