Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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Crossing the Border - Poetry and Film
Matthew Sweet explores the overlooked history of poetry in film.
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Freeze: Thaw
Hayden Lorimer discusses ice with poets, musicians, explorers, doctors and physicists.
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True Norse
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks whether there is a shared culture in the north of Europe
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Above Sixty, Below Zero
Exploring the changing relationship between humans and the landscape in the far north.
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An Imagined Glasgow
Writer Louise Welsh explores how Glaswegian artists have re-imagined their city.
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Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain.
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This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France
Adam Thorpe on what the Battle of Agincourt means in Britain and France.
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Ginsberg in India
Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s.
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Arthur Miller - Speaking of New York
Ben Brantley of the New York Times describes how the city informed Arthur Miller's work.
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How Celtic Are We?
What is Celtic identity? Professor Dai Smith searches for the essence of Celticism.
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You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel Without a Cause at 60
Alan Dein explores the making and meanings of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause.
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Looking for the Moor
Hugh Quarshie seeks resolution to the dilemmas of a black actor playing Othello.
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HG and the H-Bomb
Samira Ahmed explores the role of HG Wells in the creation of the nuclear bomb.
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A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death?
Martin Handley explores current attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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An Anatomy of Singing
Mary King explores how advances in our knowledge of anatomy are changing the way we sing.
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WB Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of WB Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
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Left-Handed Liberty
Andrew Dickson explores a provocative attempt to commemorate the signing of Magna Carta.
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Contemporary Art and the Church
Fiona Shaw explores the new-found enthusiasm of the Christian church for contemporary art.
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In the Shadow of Kafka: Prophet of Prague
Misha Glenny traces the footsteps of Franz Kafka in his native city.
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John Berger - About Song and Laughter
Sukhdev Sandhu introduces a radio-minded feature by critic and novelist John Berger.
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In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the Congress of Vienna and how it still affects us.
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A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
Patrick Wright investigates why German writer Uwe Johnson chose to live in Sheerness.
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Doing Goya Justice: The Curator's Story
Feature following the work of Xavier Bray as curates an exhibition of Goya's paintings.
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Memoirs of the Spacewomen
Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures of three neglected female writers.
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Mission Harpsichord
Mahan Esfahani discovers why the harpsichord is an often misunderstood instrument.
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From Convent to Concert Hall
Kate Kennedy reviews four female string players who were pioneering in their own lifetimes
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The Day of the Locust
Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust.
