Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan

How experimental composer John Cage came to write his infamous silent piece, 4’33”

• 43 mins

New Generation Thinker short Feature: COVID and The Black Death, an imperfect fit.

Medievalist Dr Seb Falk questions the comparisons between COVID19 and The Black Death.

• 13 mins

The Silence of My Pain

Hannah French explores a hidden disability for many musicians: pain.

• 44 mins

Sunday Feature: The Fake Poet

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

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature - Dissecting Beethoven

An exploration of Beethoven’s music through the body that gave him so much trouble.

• 43 mins

Everybody Likes Music Don’t They?

How can a song mean terror for one person and boredom for another?

• 43 mins

The Apple and the Tree

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

• 43 mins