Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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The Heritage Wars
Historian Dr Anna Whitelock explores how the heritage industry is battling for our money.
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AL Kennedy's Art and Madness
Writer AL Kennedy questions the cliched link between madness and creativity.
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Immortal Dreams
Professor Raymond Tallis explores the science and culture of immortality.
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Swansea's Other Poet
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, on the poetry of Vernon Watkins.
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The Poor Wore Yellow Stars
Justin Champion on how 17th-century puritanism still influences thinking about the poor.
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An Olympick Vision
Ed Smith explains why Britain's Olympic journey started 400 years ago - in the Cotswolds.
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Machines Like Us
Paul Bennun explores the latest advances allowing computers to understand and imitate us.
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Bach and the Art of Bee-Keeping
Kathryn Knight on common denominators and extramusical connections between Part and Bach.
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David Hockney - New Ways of Seeing
Rachel Campbell-Johnston visits artist David Hockney in his Yorkshire studio.
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Tracing Beauty
Ben Quash considers what we mean when we talk about beauty.
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Dee
Poet Paul Farley explores John Milton's 'wizard stream' the River Dee, from source to sea.
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St Vitus Dance
Frances Byrnes explores the Dance Plague of 1518, and dance mania throughout history.
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Barbara - The Inner Voice of France
Norman Lebrecht explores the life and work of French icon, chanteuse and composer Barbara.
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In Search of Celia Sanchez
An exploration of the life of Fidel Castro's most precious aide until her death in 1980.
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Walking With Attitude
Travel writer Ian Marchant investigates 'psychogeography'.
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Three Centuries of the British Mosque
Humayun Ansari from the University of London tells the story of mosques in Britain.
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Shostakovich: A Journey into Light
Stephen Johnson on how the music of Shostakovich helped him survive clinical depression.
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A Poet in Bohemia
David Vaughan traces the life and work of English poet Elizabeth Weston.
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Leonardo - Master of Ceremonies
Charles Nicholl recreates Leonardo da Vinci's transient masterpieces.
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Hungary's Soul: Liszt and Gypsy Music
Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes revisits Budapest in search of Liszt's gypsy music.
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A Guernica for Gotham
Judith Kampfner on the best interpretation in the arts of the 9/11 attacks.
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A Symphony for Detroit
A portrait of the American city of Detroit seen through its world-class orchestra.
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Don't Make Fun of the Festival
John Tusa explores the cultural dimension to the 1951 Festival of Britain.
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Europe: The Art of Austerity
Michael Goldfarb asks how Europe's artists and writers saw the Depression of the 1930s.
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To Listen Well
Hilary Finch considers the craft, purpose and future of newspaper music critics.
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A Movement Beyond Dance
Judith Mackrell asks if dance remains ultimately about the moving human body.
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Barbara Hepworth
Juliet Gardiner profiles Barbara Hepworth, Britain's most successful female sculptor.
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El Milagro! - The Miracle of Cartagena
Owen Sheers visits a Colombian city reborn - through its own great literary heritage.
