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  1. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 8

    Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...

  2. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 7

    During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.

  3. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 6

    Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...

  4. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 4

    The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert鈥檚...

  5. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 3

    Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.

  6. Play Schubert For Me - Episode 2

    Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...

  7. Play Schubert For Me - Episode 1

    The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.

  8. Plastic and Clay

    The extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.

  9. Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books

    Artist Penny Woolcock, global health researcher Thomas Bollyky and Jane Stevens Crawshaw

  10. Pirates

    From Treasure Island to Kynance Cove, Anne Bonney to Captain Pugwash: Anne McElvoy hosts

  11. Piranesi and disturbing archecture

    Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of Matthew Sweet's guests

  12. Picnics

    From Picnic at Hanging Rock to an Iron Curtain Pan European picnic

  13. Picasso, Baka Doc, Speed-Dating, Josie Rourke

    With Matthew Sweet. Artist Brad Lochore reviews a new exhibition at Tate Britain: and...

  14. Philosophy and Film

    Rana Mitter, Sally Potter and philosophers discuss whether you can philosophise with film

  15. Philosophical tennis, hidden beaches and Eleanor Marx.

    Matthew Sweet takes a walk around Eleanor Marx's old neighborhood.

  16. Phillis Wheatley

    The enslaved African American woman, Phillis Wheatley who became a celebrated poet.

  17. Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur

    Knossos - birthplace of myths and tragedies - explored by Rana Mitter and Natalie Haynes

  18. Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech

    Director Peter Weir talks about his new film, The Way Back. Chess grandmaster, Garry...

  19. Perfecting The Body

    Eugenics to cyborgs: Adam Rutherford, Clare Chambers, Harry Parker & Xine Yao discuss

  20. Peace

    In the week of VE Day, Matthew Sweet discusses what peace has meant since 1945

  21. Pause for Thought

    From the bracket & exclamation mark to emojis - Florence Hazrat's history of punctuation

  22. Patti LuPone

    The musicals star on politics, performing, #Me Too and her Italian-American roots.

  23. Patricia Lockwood and Andr茅 Aciman

    Two American authors talk to Laurence Scott about their sense of time, place and self

  24. Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women

    Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri

  25. Paper

    From the Chinese Han Dynasty in 105 AD to the 20th-century workplace, art and rubbish.

  26. Panpsychism - Is matter conscious?

    Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on panpsychism, a radical movement in philosophy

  27. Pankaj Mishra, research into Indian history

    Pankaj Mishra discusses his new novel about friends in an age of upheaval

  28. Pan-Africanism

    Shahidha Bari discusses pan-Africanism in plays, films, literature and politics.

  29. Pakistan, Politics and Water Supplies

    Samira Shackle , Ejaz Haider and Majed Akhter talk about Karachi, power, crime and energy

  30. Pacific Rim politics; Ronan Bennett; Sjon

    Rana Mitter hosts a debate on relations between Japan, US and China.

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