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Sunday Feature Episodes

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    Grid

    Exploring the grid as the great hidden idea behind modernism, art, music and urban design.

  2. Frost-Heron

    How St Ives abstract artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron formed an unlikely friendship.

  3. The Bloomsbury Lighthouse

    Tracing Graham Greene, George Orwell, AL Lloyd and Laurie Lee's WWII propaganda careers.

  4. The Dvorak Statement

    Mahan Esfahani discovers the past and present of African-American classical music.

  5. Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi's Women

    Catherine Fletcher measures the impact of Monteverdi's real and fictional female figures.

  6. Reformation 500

    Chris Bowlby explores how the Reformation shaped German culture and what it means today.

  7. Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: A Square Dance in Heaven

    The Rev Lucy Winkett takes a musical tour of the Reformation.

  8. v. is for Tony

    Paul Farley presents a profile of a unique poet, playwright and director, Tony Harrison.

  9. I Know an Island - RM Lockley

    Jon Gower uncovers the work of pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.

  10. Hitting the High Notes

    Sally Marlow investigates why many jazz musicians turned to heroin in the post-war period.

  11. Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan?

    Ken Hollings reassesses the life and career of 1960s media theorist Marshall McLuhan.

  12. Opera across the Waves

    Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.

  13. Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit

    Kevin LeGendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.

  14. John Ruskin's Eurhythmic Girls

    Samira Ahmed explores how Victorian art critic John Ruskin revolutionised girls' education

  15. King Kong - the Township Jazz Musical

    Soweto Kinch discovers the remarkable story behind the apartheid-era musical, King Kong.

  16. The Experimenters

    Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how Black Mountain College launched many American artists.

  17. Savage Pilgrims

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates the artistic community of New Mexico.

  18. Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle

    The story of how three trips to South America in the 1950s changed Pierre Boulez's life.

  19. Music on the Brink of Destruction

    Shirli Gilbert reveals the complex history of music composed in the Nazi camps and ghettos

  20. Apocalypse How

    Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores how different cultures have viewed the apocalypse.

  21. Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution

    How Moscow's architecture and aesthetics influenced Wassily Kandinsky's artistic vision.

  22. Breaking Free: Freud versus Music

    Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music.

  23. David Attenborough - World Music Collector

    David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again.

  24. Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?

    Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life...

  25. Langston Hughes at the Third

    How an unlikely friendship led to Harlem poet Langston Hughes' epic 1964 成人快手 radio series.

  26. New Generation Thinkers

    Features about lost modernist poet Hope Mirlees and North Africa's Jews during WWII.

  27. New Generation Thinkers

    Euphemism and eroticism in Gaelic songs and reappraising sculptor Joseph Nollekens.

  28. Let Her Speak

    Emily Maitlis considers the history of women and public speaking.

  29. The Other Third

    Exploring the ways the Third Programme reflected the lives of so-called ordinary people.

  30. In Search of Yves Klein

    Leap into the Void! Liliane Lijn explores the work of French postwar artist Yves Klein.

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