Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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David Attenborough - World Music Collector
David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again.
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Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?
Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life...
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Langston Hughes at the Third
How an unlikely friendship led to Harlem poet Langston Hughes' epic 1964 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ radio series.
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New Generation Thinkers
Features about lost modernist poet Hope Mirlees and North Africa's Jews during WWII.
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New Generation Thinkers
Euphemism and eroticism in Gaelic songs and reappraising sculptor Joseph Nollekens.
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Let Her Speak
Emily Maitlis considers the history of women and public speaking.
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The Other Third
Exploring the ways the Third Programme reflected the lives of so-called ordinary people.
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In Search of Yves Klein
Leap into the Void! Liliane Lijn explores the work of French postwar artist Yves Klein.
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The Secrets of the Music Reading Panel
Who were the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s gatekeepers for new scores for broadcast? Charlotte Higgins finds out.
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Philip French and the Critical Ear
Laurence Scott pays tribute to radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams: The Print and the Performance
Vladimir Ashkenazy reveals how classical music influenced the photography of Ansel Adams.
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Not Suitable for Children
Dr Sophie Coulombeau explores the limits of children's literature.
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Dawn on the Somme
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part in the battle
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Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli
Exploring the little-known story of Giovanni Morelli, who influenced Conan Doyle and Freud
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An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936
Ian McMillan tells the story of the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936.
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Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian Who Conquered La Scala
Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century.
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God Intoxicated Man - The Life and Times of Benedict Spinoza
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Dutch philosopher Benedict Spinoza.
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Still Will
Laura Barton explores the silences and intimacies of Shakespeare's plays.
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First Folio Road Trip
How Shakespeare's First Folio helped make a national poet and an international star.
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Menuhin at 100
The story of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, using ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ archive material.
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1816, the Year Without a Summer
Corin Throsby explores the cultural and social impact of 1816's extreme weather.
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Taking It All Back ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Singer Sam Lee explores how archives around the world are repatriating sound recordings.
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The Women Who Staged the Rising
Marie-Louise Muir on the Irish women of theatre who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Brainwash Culture
Professor Daniel Pick explores the enduring cultural obsession with brainwashing.
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The Venice Ghetto
Jerry Brotton explores the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto, the first of its kind.
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Real Pretenders
Film critic Antonia Quirke investigates the evolution of acting.
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Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide
Paul Morley explores the ever-changing world of Britain's art galleries.
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South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower
Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch so far above its weight.
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Keeping in Steppe
David Sneath looks at Mongolia, where culture is being transformed across the steppe.
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Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail
Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916.