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How has streaming revolutionised the art of songwriting?
22 Dec 2020,·28 mins
What Does Your Phone Say About You?
How the devices have blurred the boundaries of private and public, real and virtual
08 Jan 2006,·22 mins
How the fascinating and disgusting lives of insects inspired modernist writers.
04 Jan 2021,·28 mins
How Covid is making us think differently about Shakespeare.
17 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Poet Jay Bernard explores the power and potency of the letter I.
18 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Sounds of the past to come to life through the technology of the present.
11 Feb 2021,·28 mins
Knife Imitates Art - How Surgeons Use Creativity
Top surgeons reveal parallel lives as sculptors and musicians.
13 Jun 2019,·28 mins
Erland Cooper, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Caroline Bird, Testament
Moments of inspiration recalled by some of our best known artists.
10 Aug 2021,·28 mins
John Wilson investigates the value of the songs that provide the soundtracks to our lives.
02 Mar 2021,·28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili finds out how The Life Scientific has changed during the pandemic.
15 Dec 2020,·37 mins
Poet Theresa Lola explores the relationship between poetry, old age and mortality.
29 Nov 2020,·28 mins
Andrew McGibbon explores why John Coltrane's version of My Favourite Things became a hit.
24 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Emily Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for good or ill.
19 May 2009,·40 mins
The poet Helen Mort imagines what mountains might remember of the women who climb them.
11 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Peter White explores science fiction's enduring fascination with blindness.
31 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Episode 3: Cars and Girls
The music writer presents a series of meditations on different aspects of music.
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
The poet Anthony Joseph reflects on fatherhood, in his own work and that of fellow artists
06 Jan 2021,·28 mins
Glenda Jackson's exclusive interview with world famous theatre director Peter Brook.
15 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Combine Disneyland Paris, a 4-track demo and three guys from Glasgow. Et voila, Daft Punk!
11 May 2021,·28 mins
Hear from international and local crime writers who came to Shetland earlier this year.
15 Oct 2026,·60 mins
People share their recollections of the 1956 Hungarian revolution forty years on
01 Aug 1996,·42 mins
Lucy Ash explores London's new French community, as it spreads beyond South Kensington.
30 May 2012,·30 mins
How a down-at-heel Parisian hotel became the world's avant-garde headquarters.
29 Nov 2012,·30 mins
Felicity Evans meets some of the journalists who reported on the Aberfan disaster.
21 Oct 2016,·42 mins
An exploration of our obsession with pens, paper and office life's paraphernalia.
02 Mar 2012,·30 mins
Comedian and musician Rich Morton explores the laid-back world of lounge music.
08 Mar 2012,·30 mins
The poet Raymond Antrobus explores the art of translating sound for the eye.
14 Mar 2021,·28 mins
Adam Buxton uncovers the influence of British music videos at the dawn of MTV.
01 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Carry on Writing
Ideas on how you can continue to write by yourself
26 Feb 2001,·13 mins
The Villanelle
Andrew McMillan explores why poetic forms are fashionable again.
06 Jun 2021,·28 mins
