Creativity, performance, debate
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art
Two NGAs ask: is it wrong to have children? Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare?
The Verb on The Midlands with Jonathan Coe, Liz Berry, Polar Bear
Enter JG Ballard's innerspace with two new binaural dramatisations of his short fiction.
A look at free-thinker Thomas Woolston, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, memory and neuroscience
featuring Yrsa Daley-Ward
The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago, plus suffragette Punch and Judy.
Michael Rosen looks at socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children.
Julian Baggini, Tiffany Watt Smith and Christopher Harding with Rana Mitter.
Mike Leigh talks to Matthew Sweet as his historical epic Peterloo opens in cinemas.
Phoebe Fox stars in a world premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901
Patrick Barlow on his play The Messiah, and Daisy Black on a new medieval mystery play.
Two Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers with stories from medieval and Victorian Britain.
Five writers explore Ted Hughes's work
Manfred, haunted by a dark crime, invokes spirits in search of solace but finds no peace.
Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation
The Verb explores the forest as metaphor with Terry Deary and Pascale Petit
Marie Darrieussecq, Lisa Mullen and Dafydd Daniel on magic and dystopias.
Rana Mitter explores identity, forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire
Shahidha Bari with news of the Man Booker Prize and a discussion about female philosophers
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough examines the great fictional forests of art and literature.
Does LSD open the doors of perception or just mess with your head?
Part of Radio 3’s showcase of new audio plays at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Writer Peter Flannery looks back at the pivotal year of his childhood: 1963.