BBC Sounds - Sunday Feature - Available Episodes

New Generation Thinkers: Short Feature - COVID and the Black Death; the imperfect fit

Dr Seb Falk challenges the repeated pandemic comparison of Covid-19 with the Black Death.

• 14 mins
• 18 Oct 2020

Cave Life For Beginners

Down down, deeper and down - Ben Cottam overnights in a cave in search of inspiration.

• 44 mins
• 11 Oct 2020

New Generation Thinkers: Sloe Time

Nature's barbed wire - and giver of a fruit that creates a delicious warming tipple.

• 14 mins
• 04 Oct 2020

The Kershaw Tapes - Andy's Kitchen and On the Road in the Americas

Andy Kershaw introduces rare recordings from his personal archive.

• 44 mins
• 27 Sep 2020

The Kershaw Tapes - Andy's Kitchen and On the Road in Africa

Andy Kershaw introduces rare recordings from his personal archive.

• 44 mins
• 20 Sep 2020

Silent Witness - John Cage, Zen and Japan

How American experimental composer John Cage came to write his infamous silent 4’33”.

• 44 mins
• 12 Jul 2020

Afterwords: Toni Morrison

Reflections on American writer Toni Morrison in her own words and those of her peers.

• 44 mins
• 05 Jul 2020

Writing Across Distance

Writing Across Distance. New Sunday Feature from BBC Radio 3.

• 44 mins
• 24 May 2020

Electronic India

Musician Paul Purgas investigates the lost history of India’s electronic avant-garde.

• 44 mins
• 17 May 2020

New Generation Thinkers: The Crankiness of CW Daniel

Dr Elsa Richardson explores the impact and legacy of radical publisher CW Daniel.

• 14 mins
• 26 Apr 2020

New Generation Thinkers: Short Feature

New Generation Thinkers test their theories in the real world.

• 14 mins
• 19 Apr 2020

Wordsworth - Poet of the People

On Wordsworth's 250th, Jenny Uglow sets the poet in contrast to the economist Adam Smith.

• 44 mins
• 05 Apr 2020

New Generation Thinkers: The Endless Demise of the High Street

Dr Jade Halbert ponders the veracity of the long-running warnings of high street demise.

• 14 mins
• 29 Mar 2020

New Generation Thinkers: The Air that I Breathe

New Generation Thinker Alun Withey reflects on our desire for clean air.

• 14 mins
• 15 Mar 2020

Queen of Technicolor

Maureen O'Hara's journey from the Dublin suburbs to star of Hollywood's golden age.

• 44 mins
• 08 Mar 2020

The East Speaks Back

Jerry Brotton celebrates the world of Ottoman traveller Evliya Celebi.

• 44 mins
• 01 Mar 2020

In search of Arabic classical music

Kate Molleson travels to Cairo to discover a lost aural music tradition.

• 44 mins
• 16 Feb 2020

Shades of Black: The Art and Genius of Archibald Motley Jr

How the artist Archibald Motley Jr captured the politics of skin tone in Jazz Age Chicago.

• 44 mins
• 09 Feb 2020

The Lonely Death of Stanley Bate

Simon Heffer explores the tragic life of Stanley Bate, enigma of English music.

• 44 mins
• 02 Feb 2020

The Emergency - Creative freedom in wartime Dublin

Regan Hutchins tells the story of bohemian Dublin in World War II.

• 44 mins
• 19 Jan 2020