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Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the cultural cold war.

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Sunday Feature
Radio Controlled
Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the cultural cold war.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Patrick Kavanagh: the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard
50 years after Kavanagh's death Theo Dorgan finds out why the Irish poet is so loved today
45 mins
Sunday Feature
A Portrait of Val Wilmer
How has Val Wilmer become a world figure in the documentation of Black music and culture?
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Concerto: The One and the Many
Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Blind, Black and Blue
Gary O'Donoghue asks why so many early blues musicians in America's Deep South were blind.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
A Symphony of Psalms
Cerys Matthews explores the influence of the 150 Psalms on musicians and composers.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Too Many Artists?
From painting in a Paris garret to bouncing on trampolines - what is an artist today?
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Exit Burbage - the man who created Hamlet
Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's not well known - why?
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Supernatural Japan
An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Japan's Never-Ending War
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Oh Dr Kinsey, Look What You've Done to Me!
Matthew Sweet looks at the impact of the Kinsey Report, first published seventy years ago.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Under the Water
Maritime archaeologists race against time and the tide at a submerged Mesolithic site.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
The Summer Forest
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the cultural and ecological glories of the summer forest.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Binary and Beyond
Binary and Beyond 1/2
Might explorations of gender in great art of the past help illuminate today's issues?
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Binary and Beyond
Episode 2
Might explorations of gender in great art of the past illuminate current gender issues?
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Tony Harrison's Prague Spring
How one of Britain's best-known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Philip French and the Critical Ear
Laurence Scott on radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Bernstein 100: The Bernstein Files
Journalist Jonathan Coffey re-opens the secret FBI files on Leonard Bernstein
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before
A parrot, a Dr Who, a detectorist, and a national treasure help a seeker resurrect Ken.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Nature of Creativity
As nature disappears, are we losing what has inspired our creativity for generations?
44 mins
Sunday Feature
A Portrait of Parry
Simon Heffer argues for a new understanding of Sir Hubert Parry
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Forests of the imagination
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Inside Stories
Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation
44 mins
Sunday Feature
New Generation Thinkers. 1 of 2
Two Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers with stories from medieval and Victorian Britain.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
New Generation Thinkers 2/2
Two NGAs ask: is it wrong to have children? Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare?
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Ruhleben Legacy
Revealing how life in a German internment camp shaped the course of classical music.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Kristapurana
The travels of the first Englishman in India, and the hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Harlem on Fire
Afua Hirsch goes on the search of a long-lost masterpiece from the Harlem Renaissance.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Tales from the Caspian Sea
Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the rich cultural history of the Caspian Sea.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Tales from the Caspian Sea
Dr Bettany Hughes illuminates the neglected culture of the Caspian Sea and its hinterland.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Pine Tree
The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas Day.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Sarah Dillon reveals a tale of money and passion behind Dickens's Great Expectations.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Sarah Dillon explores the arduous composition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
Jane Austen's Persuasion
Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, Persuasion, was written.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
James Joyce's Dubliners
Sarah Dillon recounts James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.
45 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice
Exploring the long journey to publication of EM Forster's gay love story, Maurice.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
Literary Pursuits - RL Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde
Sarah Dillon finds out the story behind the writing of RL Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Literary Pursuits
Literary Pursuits - Les Miserables
The story behind the writing of Victor Hugo's book is one of adultery, intrigue and exile.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Keats Goes North
Fiona Stafford follows poet John Keats’ epic 1818 walk, which inspired his greatest works.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Afterwords: Martha Gellhorn
Through the work of Martha Gellhorn, contemporary writers reflect on modern reporting.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Afterwords: Susan Sontag
A fragmentary look at the writer Susan Sontag through her own words and those of her peers
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt
Samira Ahmed on the women who brought ancient Egypt to Britain’s industrial north.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
A History of The Tongue
A succulent and mouthwatering portrait of one of the body's least talked about organs.
43 mins
Sunday Feature
A History of the Tongue
A succulent and mouthwatering portrait of one of the body's least talked about organs.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
My Trouble with Classical Music
David Baddiel is on a quest to like classical music.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Into the Eerie
Will Abberley explores the recent interest in the eerie within English culture.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Jazz Japan
An exploration of the rich and surprising history of jazz in Japan.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Gabriel Prokofiev - My Family and Russia
The shifting relationship between Russian music and the state across three generations.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Deluxe Edition
Sean Williams takes a first-class journey through the enduring contradictions of luxury.
44 mins
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
Sunday Feature
The Actors' Guide to the Emotions
Shahidha Bari traces the changing portrayal of emotions on the stage.
44 mins
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
Sunday Feature
Hotel Genius
Sally Marlow uncovers the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Haus Work: Women of the Bauhaus
Olivia Horsfall Turner tells the story of the women of the radical Bauhaus school.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Waterlog
Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Alexander Korda - Producer, Director, Exile, Spy
Matthew Sweet unearths movie mogul Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe marks its 300th anniversary but does it have a future?
44 mins
Sunday Feature
Cristiani and Her Cello
Dr Kate Kennedy explores the life and journeys of pioneer cellist Lise Cristiani.
44 mins
Sunday Feature
The Art of Rowing with Mary Wollstonecraft
Making waves - how did travelling as a single mother inspire Mary Wollstonecraft?
14 mins
Sunday Feature
A Unicorn Quest
Short feature about unicorns from Hetta Howes one of the 2019 BBC New Generation Thinkers.
14 mins
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

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