The Actors' Guide to the Emotions

Shahidha Bari traces the changing portrayal of emotions on the stage.

• 44 mins

John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of American poet John Ashbery, who died in 2017.

• 44 mins

Hotel Genius

Sally Marlow uncovers the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study

• 44 mins

Haus Work: Women of the Bauhaus

Olivia Horsfall Turner tells the story of the women of the radical Bauhaus school.

• 44 mins

Waterlog

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

• 44 mins

Alexander Korda - Producer, Director, Exile, Spy

Matthew Sweet unearths movie mogul Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.

• 44 mins

Robinson Crusoe Road Trip

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe marks its 300th anniversary, but does it have a future?

• 44 mins

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

Cristiani and Her Cello

Dr Kate Kennedy explores the life and journeys of pioneer cellist Lise Cristiani.

• 44 mins

The Art of Rowing with Mary Wollstonecraft

Making waves - how did travelling as a single mother inspire Mary Wollstonecraft?

• 14 mins

A Unicorn Quest

Short feature about unicorns from Hetta Howes one of the 2019 BBC New Generation Thinkers.

• 14 mins

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

Everybody Likes Music, Don't They?

To many, music is indispensible. But what if it has no place in your life?

• 44 mins

Judy Punches Up

Punch and Judy - unexpected feminist icons?

• 14 mins

Al-Andalus: the Legacy

Andrew Hussey journeys through Spain in search of the legacy of Al-Andalus.

• 44 mins

Moral Machinery: The Invention of Mental Healthcare

How one individual led a revolution in care for the mentally ill.

• 14 mins

Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall

Actor Lily Cole plays Elizabeth Siddall who climbs out of her grave to tell her own story.

• 44 mins

The Hidden Reservoir

Carlo Gebler on the role of the arts in healing and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

• 44 mins

Power Plays

How theatre challenged the East German government - but was swept aside as communism fell.

• 44 mins

Poles Apart

The unknown tale of cold war communist Poland's unlikely love affair with electronic music

• 44 mins

A Racist Music

Challenging the legacy of composer and racist ideologue John Powell (1882-1963).

• 44 mins

Rewiring Raymond Scott

Ken Hollings assesses the legacy of American electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Glitter and Villainy

Glitter and Villainy: Camp performance and dressing to kill.

• 14 mins

Gentileschi's Revenge

Painter Caroline Walker explores the life of Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi.

• 44 mins

The Emergency - Creative freedom in wartime Dublin

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

• 44 mins

The Lonely Death of Stanley Bate

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

• 44 mins

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

In search of Arabic classical music

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

• 44 mins

The East Speaks Back

Jerry Brotton celebrates the world of Ottoman traveller Evliya Celebi.

• 44 mins

Queen of Technicolor

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

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: The Air that I Breathe

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

• 14 mins

Literary Pursuits

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Sarah Dillon reveals a tale of money and passion behind Dickens's Great Expectations.

• 45 mins

Literary Pursuits

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

Sarah Dillon explores the arduous composition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.

• 45 mins

Literary Pursuits

Jane Austen's Persuasion

Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, Persuasion, was written.

• 45 mins

Literary Pursuits

James Joyce's Dubliners

Sarah Dillon recounts James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.

• 45 mins

Literary Pursuits

Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice

Exploring the long journey to publication of EM Forster's gay love story, Maurice.

• 44 mins

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

Literary Pursuits

Les Miserables

The story behind the writing of Victor Hugo's book is one of adultery, intrigue and exile.

• 44 mins

Literary Pursuits

Truman Capote: In Cold Blood

How a murder in Kansas prompted Truman Capote to write In Cold Blood.

• 44 mins

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

Wordsworth - Poet of the People

Jenny Uglow sets Wordsworth, the nature poet, in contrast to the economist Adam Smith.

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Short Feature

New Generation Thinkers test their theories in the real world.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers: The Crankiness of CW Daniel

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

• 14 mins

Electronic India

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

• 44 mins

Writing Across Distance

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

• 44 mins

Afterwords: Toni Morrison

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

• 44 mins

Silent Witness - John Cage, Zen and Japan

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

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: Sloe Time

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

• 14 mins

Cave Life For Beginners

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

• 44 mins

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

Tate Modern - Exploding the Canon

For Director Frances Morris, there is an urgency to make Tate Modern fit for the future.

• 44 mins

Curves and Concrete

How did a maverick Scottish architect revolutionise the design of UK skateparks?

• 44 mins

The Silence of My Pain

Hannah French explores an often hidden disability for many musicians: chronic pain.

• 44 mins

Our Birmingham Fathers

Three people meet to share experiences of grieving for their musician fathers.

• 44 mins

The Myth and Mystery of Anja Thauer

Uncovering the tragic story of a lost cellist, once known as Germany’s Jacqueline du Pré.

• 44 mins

The Fake Poet

Why does the image of the forlorn and abandoned poet Thomas Chatterton haunt us today?

• 44 mins

Dissecting Beethoven

Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh and Georgia Mann dissect Beethoven.

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: A Passion for Annotations

Dr Kylie Murray explains her fascination for annotation.

• 14 mins

The Robots Are Us

Ken Hollings explores a century of R.U.R., Karel Capek's staged robot revolution.

• 44 mins

The Apple and the Tree

Carlo Gébler, son of Edna O’Brien, asks why the children of writers often become writers.

• 44 mins

Margaret Fay Shaw's Hebridean Odyssey

An exploration of the life and work of the remarkable American Gaelic folk song collector.

• 44 mins

The Aphorism Now - Failing with Style

New Generation Thinker Dr Noreen Masud examines the 21st-century health of the aphorism.

• 14 mins

John Foulds - Life, Death and Resurrection

Simon Heffer explores the innovative world of John Foulds, a forgotten genius.

• 44 mins

Classical Commonwealth

Errollyn Wallen unravels the story of classical music across the British Commonwealth.

• 44 mins

The Balcony

Dr Islam Issa contemplates the social and cultural significance of the Balcony.

• 14 mins

The Tidal Sense

Signe Lidén reflects on ancient and emerging knowledge about what the tide might mean.

• 44 mins

Hilltop Histories

Archaeologist Seren Griffiths tells the multiple stories of a Sandstone ridge in Cheshire.

• 14 mins

Male Grooming - Past and Present

New Generation Thinkers test their theories in the real world.

• 14 mins

Should Feminists Read Baudelaire?

Michèle Roberts assesses the reputation of the French poet 200 years after his birth.

• 44 mins

Silent Spaces

Soumik Datta explores what’s become of the country's empty music venues.

• 44 mins

Fluxus - 60 Years and Not Counting

Paul Morley celebrates an irreverent art movement.

• 44 mins

Riding the Waves

Artists dive deep beneath the waves of Virginia Woolf's inspirational novel.

• 44 mins

Repeating Patterns in the Street Harassment of Women

Dr Rachel Hewitt explores repeating patterns in the street harassment of women.

• 14 mins

The Kershaw Tapes

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

Andy Kershaw introduces rare recordings from his personal archive.

• 44 mins

The Kershaw Tapes

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

Andy Kershaw introduces rare recordings from his personal archive.

• 44 mins

The Kershaw Tapes

More Kershaw Tapes

Andy Kershaw introduces more rare recordings from his personal archive.

• 44 mins

Even more Kershaw Tapes

Andy Kershaw introduces more rare recordings from his personal archive.

• 44 mins

Clubbing after Lockdown

New Generation Thinker Tom Smith explores post-lockdown club culture and what's changed.

• 14 mins

Regarding the Pain of Others

Allan Little addresses the gulf between the reality of war and our means to comprehend it.

• 44 mins

Archives in the Culture Wars

Tom Charlton explores how his academic career as a historian fits into the ‘culture wars’.

• 14 mins

The Puppet's Gaze

Noreen Masud reflects on what the puppet's gaze can give that the human gaze cannot.

• 14 mins

Unmouthed

Revelations, new poems and music from composer Ivor Gurney’s lost years in an asylum

• 44 mins

Tranquility Inc - The Great New Ambient Wave

Elizabeth Alker traces the hidden history of Japan’s environmental music scene.

• 44 mins

Reclaiming the Bridgetower Sonata

Chi-chi Nwanoku's journey to restore Beethoven's dedication to George Bridgetower

• 44 mins

Then there was Light - Stockhausen, LICHT and his opera for the seven days of the week

How German avant-garde composer Stockhausen wrote an opera for each day of the week.

• 44 mins

Staycationing in the style of abroad

Dr Seán Williams explores Little Switzerlands — a long way from the Alps.

• 14 mins

Great Scott

A fresh perspective on Sir Walter Scott, 250 years on from his birth.

• 44 mins