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In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on BBC Radio 3.
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Time Canvasses - Morton Feldman and Abstract Expressionism
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Tuner of the World
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Supply Lines
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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New Generation Thinkers: The Perfect Balance
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May 15, 2023 |
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The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch
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May 07, 2023 |
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The Black Cantor
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Sunday Feature - Shakespeare's Brum Ting
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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X-Ray Vision: Rudolph Fisher in Harlem
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Government Song Woman
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Tutu - A Portrait of Nigeria
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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O Sole Mio
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Metal City
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Rebel Sounds: Musical Resistance in Barbados
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Yiddish Glory
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Scott Ross - Harpsichord Rebel
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Unlocking Anne
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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What Walls Hold
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Sunday Feature: Florence Price’s Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Tchaikovsky's Island of Inspiration
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Then there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the week
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Even more Kershaw Tapes
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May 09, 2021 |
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More Kershaw Tapes
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May 04, 2021 |
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New Generation Thinker short feature: Hilltop Histories
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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NGT The Balcony
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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The Apple and the Tree
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Sunday Feature - Dissecting Beethoven
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Sunday Feature: The Fake Poet
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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The Silence of My Pain
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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New Generation Thinker short Feature: COVID and The Black Death, an imperfect fit.
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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The Crankiness of C.W.Daniel
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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The Queen Of Technicolor
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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The East Speaks Back
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Ken Campbell as Never Heard Before
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Glitter and Villainy
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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Rewiring Raymond Scott
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Poles Apart
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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The Hidden Reservoir
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Power Plays
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Al Andalus - The Legacy
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Literary Pursuits: Lord of the Flies
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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Sir Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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A Unicorn Quest
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip
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May 26, 2019 |
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Alexander Korda: Producer, Director, Exile, Spy
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May 19, 2019 |
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WATERLOG
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May 12, 2019 |
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John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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May 05, 2019 |
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Hotel Genius
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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The Deluxe Edition
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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Jazz Japan
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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A History of the Tongue
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Literary Pursuits: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
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Dec 30, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature: Into the Forest - The Pine Tree
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Dec 23, 2018 |
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Harlem on Fire
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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The Kristapurana
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Nov 18, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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Inside Stories
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Forests of The Imagination
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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A Portrait of Parry
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature: A Life in Study: Robert Lowell
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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Ken Campbell As Never Heard Before
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Sep 09, 2018 |
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From the Ashes
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Monteverdi's Women
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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The Killers
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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v. is for Tony
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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I Know an Island - RM Lockley
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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In Search of Yves Klein
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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Tony Harrison's Prague Spring
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Jul 08, 2018 |
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Binary and Beyond: part two
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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Binary and Beyond Part 1
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Jun 24, 2018 |
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The Summer Forest
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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David Attenborough - World Music Collector
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May 21, 2018 |
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Japan's Never Ending War
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May 11, 2018 |
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Oh Dr Kinsey Look What You've Done to Me
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May 06, 2018 |
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Japan's Never-Ending War
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May 03, 2018 |
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Japan's Never-Ending War
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature: Supernatural Japan
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Apr 22, 2018 |
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Exit Burbage - The Man Who Created Hamlet
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Too Many Artists
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature - Blind, Black and Blue
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Sunday Feature - Concerto: The One and the Many
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Literary Pursuits - Jekyll and Hyde
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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SUNDAY FEATURE THE 40 DAYS OF MUSA DAGH
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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New Generation Thinkers: Edmund Richardson and Sarah Jackson
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Resurrecting Mayakovsky
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Nov 19, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: Emigranti - 1917 Revisited
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
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Oct 29, 2017 |
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A Flapper's Guide to the Opera
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: John Tusa's Opera Journey
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Oct 08, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: Every County in the State of California
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: The Killers
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Aug 13, 2017 |
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Edinburgh 70: Nothing Short of a Miracle
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice
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Jul 09, 2017 |
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Canada 150: Geeking Glenn Gould
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Jun 25, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: Monteverdi's Women
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May 14, 2017 |
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Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution. Reformation 500
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May 08, 2017 |
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A Square Dance in Heaven
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May 02, 2017 |
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v. is for Tony
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: I Know an Island
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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Opera Across the Waves
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Mar 12, 2017 |
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Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit
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Mar 05, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature: Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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Music on the Brink of Destruction
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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Apocalypse How
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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Sunday Feature:Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Breaking Free: Freud versus Music
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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David Attenborough - World Music Collector
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Dec 25, 2016 |
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Sunday Feature: Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?
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Dec 11, 2016 |
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SUNDAY FEATURE: NEW GENERATION THINKERS
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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New Generation Thinkers
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Nov 13, 2016 |
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The secrets of the Music Reading Panel
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Oct 09, 2016 |
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Sunday Feature: Philip French and the Critical Ear
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Oct 02, 2016 |
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The Envy of the World: Rudely Truncated
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Sep 28, 2016 |
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The Envy of the World: No Fixed Points
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Sep 28, 2016 |
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Dawn on the Somme
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli
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Jun 26, 2016 |
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An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936
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Jun 19, 2016 |
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Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Literary Pursuits: Dubliners
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Jun 05, 2016 |
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Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion
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May 29, 2016 |
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Sunday Feature: Arnold Wesker
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May 15, 2016 |
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Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100
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Apr 17, 2016 |
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Brainwash Culture
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Mar 13, 2016 |
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The Venice Ghetto
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Mar 06, 2016 |
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Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide
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Feb 21, 2016 |
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South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower
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Feb 14, 2016 |
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Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail
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Jan 31, 2016 |
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Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
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Jan 10, 2016 |
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Northern Lights: True Norse
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Dec 13, 2015 |
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Above Sixty, Below Zero
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Dec 06, 2015 |
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Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain
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Nov 22, 2015 |
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New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter & The Life and Life of Richard Baxter
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Nov 15, 2015 |
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Hardy and the Animals and Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism?
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France
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Oct 25, 2015 |
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How Celtic are We?
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Oct 04, 2015 |
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Why Music?
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Sep 27, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death?
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Jun 28, 2015 |
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Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing
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Jun 21, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity
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Jun 07, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Left-Handed Liberty
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May 31, 2015 |
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John Berger - About Song and Laughter
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May 05, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna
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Apr 26, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
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Apr 19, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature Doing Goya Justice The Curators Story
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Apr 15, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Memoirs of the Spacewomen
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Apr 05, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: From Convent to Concert Hall
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: The Day of the Locust
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Feb 22, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Cuba Clasica
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Feb 16, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Eric Ravilious: Chalk & Ice
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Feb 09, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Palace of Shame
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Feb 01, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Beautiful Death
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Jan 25, 2015 |
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Andy Warhol's Factory Friends
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Jan 19, 2015 |
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Sunday Feature: Thom Gunn - Appropriate Measures
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Jan 04, 2015 |
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Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties
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Dec 28, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: The Supernatural North
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Dec 14, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: The Fundamentalist Queen
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: A Cultural History of the Plague
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Nov 30, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: In the Shadow of the Tower
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Nov 23, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
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Nov 16, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: God and the Great War
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Nov 09, 2014 |
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Kitty Marion and The Poetry of Science
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Nov 03, 2014 |
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Enter the Dragon Chinese Theatre in the 21st century
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Oct 20, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Who Was Richard Strauss?
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Oct 12, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony
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Oct 05, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony
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Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music- A New World Symphony
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Sep 22, 2014 |
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I Have Been Here Before
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Sep 15, 2014 |
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The Devastation of British Art
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Aug 08, 2014 |
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How Did Scotland's Artists Turn Nationalist
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Jul 13, 2014 |
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June 22: Bannockburn Begins
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Jun 26, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Dennis Potter
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Jun 15, 2014 |
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Sonic Art Boom
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Jun 08, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Dylan Thomas the Radio Poet
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May 04, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Educating Isaac
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Apr 28, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature:Merchant Ivory
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Apr 06, 2014 |
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Sunday Feature: Music and the Jews (3/3)
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Mar 23, 2014 |
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Music and the Jews (2/3)
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Mar 20, 2014 |
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Music and the Jews (1/3)
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Mar 19, 2014 |
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Shanghai World City Redux
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Jan 26, 2014 |
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Somme
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Jan 05, 2014 |
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Anything But Banal - the Fascination of the Villain
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Jan 03, 2014 |
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15th December: Ideas of Germany
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Dec 15, 2013 |
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The Invisible Theatre
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Dec 08, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature: 1 December 2013 - Ken Adam Profile
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Dec 03, 2013 |
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Albert Camus: Inside the Outsider
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Nov 03, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - Production Line Living
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Oct 27, 2013 |
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Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood
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Sep 23, 2013 |
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Significant Others ep 2
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Jul 15, 2013 |
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Significant Others 1
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Jul 09, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - Stirring Up A Revolution
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Jun 09, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - Wagner: Making a National Hero
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May 19, 2013 |
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Jan Morris, Travels Round My House
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May 13, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - Piano's Music Boxes
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May 07, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (3 of 3)
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Mar 11, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (1 of 3)
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Mar 11, 2013 |
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (2 of 3)
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Mar 07, 2013 |
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Margaret are you Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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Modernism Redux
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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A Brief History of Being Cold
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits 1: Vortigern
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Sunday Feature: After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California
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Oct 04, 2012 |
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Piano Tales - A Social History of the Piano
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Dr Adam Smith on Britain in the American Civil War
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Jul 27, 2012 |
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Dr Adam Smith on the dividing lines of the American Civil War
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Jul 26, 2012 |
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Dr Adam Smith on the War of the North in America
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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Dr Adam Smith on the War of the South in America
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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Historian Tristram Hunt on anti-imperialism.
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Jul 20, 2012 |
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Historian Tristram Hunt on England and Ireland in the 1840’s.
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Jul 20, 2012 |
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Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus
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Jul 20, 2012 |
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George Reynolds - writer and contemporary of Dickens
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Jul 01, 2012 |
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Geneticist Steve Jones investigates the science of crowds
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Jun 24, 2012 |
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Andrew Graham Yooll examines Argentine identity
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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Phoenix Rising - The Story of Coventry Cathedral
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May 28, 2012 |
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Wesker at 80
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May 21, 2012 |
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Europe - the Art of Austerity
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May 03, 2012 |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury on poet Vernon Watkins
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Mar 16, 2012 |