Essays marking the 400th anniversary of the printing of Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623.
Reading the First Folio homepage
The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings.
New Generation Thinkers 2022 homepage
Five bicycle-shaped musings from writer, raconteur and life-long cyclist Andrew Martin.
Re: Cycling homepage
Writer Jon Gower explores the relationship between Wales and its coastal waters.
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters homepage
Five writers across the country walk us along the beguiling routes of tidal causeways.
Walking the Causeways homepage
Current Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers on authors they think deserve to be better known.
Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves homepage
Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.
Art from the Outside homepage
Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns explores the food of the Rainbow Nation.
From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine homepage
Margaret Heffernan explores uncertainty through the work of five artists who embrace it.
Art and Uncertainty homepage
Convent-educated, lapsed catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.
Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns homepage
Historian Bathsheba Demuth seeks human and animal traces in the Arctic ice and tundra.
Postcards from the Floating Coast homepage
Five women writers on landscapes and healing within them.
A Landscape for Recovery homepage
Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.
Listen Harder homepage
Nicholas Kenyon explores the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s role in the early music revival of the last century.
Renewing the Past: The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and Early Music homepage
A centenary celebration of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ radio productions of Shakespeare plays.
The Beeb and the Bard homepage
Personal essays on what Vaughan Williams means to five different writers.
Vaughan Williams: Belonging homepage
Five essays recorded at this year's Contains Strong Language festival in Birmingham.
Double Vision homepage
Five essays from Birmingham
Coming ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ homepage
Personal essays exploring the history, layers and nuances of British Sign Language.
Sign Language Is My Language homepage
Essays by five contemporary poets marking the centenary of Philip Larkin (1922-1985).
Larkin and Believing homepage
Michael Goldfarb explores the emergence of a postwar avant-garde in 1940s America.
Bohemians in T-Shirts homepage
The Essay celebrates the everyday moments that shape, frame and colour our lives.
Moments of Being homepage
Writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Journeys to the Grave homepage
Five reflections on his life by Adrian Edmondson: comedian, actor and writer.
Adrian Edmondson - Signs of Life (Series 2) homepage
A personal exploration of poetic inspiration from writer Inua Ellams.
Poetic Provocations homepage
A series of essays marking the 30th anniversary of Marlene Dietrich's death in May 1992.
Dietrich in Five Songs homepage
The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings
New Generation Thinkers 2021 homepage
Hybrid war came to Ukraine in 2014. Its poets have been responding to it ever since.
Words for War homepage
Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the many varieties of spiritual silence.
Talking about Silence homepage
Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history around the British Isles.
EarthWorks homepage