Sunday Feature Episodes Episode guide
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China's Museum-Building Boom
Isabel Hilton reports from China on the current boom in museum building.
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Desperately Seeking Mozart
Professor Paul Robertson sets out in search of the real Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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The Little Prince Died at Dawn
Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce explores the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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From King to Pawn
David Szalay examines chess as an artistic metaphor in literature and modern art.
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A City on a Hill
Clive Lawton explores the Israeli city of Safed, the 'world capital of spirituality'.
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Zaha
Jonathan Glancey reviews the remarkable career of the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid.
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Do Not Expect Applause - The Life and Poetry of WS Graham
Paul Henry presents a celebration of 20th century poet WS Graham.
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Walking with Freud
David Matthews and Anthony Cantle discuss the famous meeting between Mahler and Freud.
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Tolstoy in the Cotswolds
Mike Berlin visits the Gloucestershire village founded on the principles of Leo Tolstoy.
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Harvesting the Archive
Jamie Andrews looks through the works writer John Berger donated to the British Library.
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James Young Deer - The Winnebago Movie-Maker
Matthew Sweet tracks a Native American movie-maker from California to the London of 1914.
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Myths and Mystery Cycles
John Sessions explores a research project rewriting the story of early English drama.
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Tracking the Aryans
Bettany Hughes tells the troubled story of the search for the ancient Aryans.
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John Henry Newman: A Very English Saint?
Edward Stourton explores the life and legacy of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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After a Dancemaker Dies
Frances Byrnes asks whether dances can or should survive the deaths of choreographers.
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In Search of Gustav Mahler
Norman Lebrecht talks to those whose lives have been touched by the music of Mahler.
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Goethe's Oak
Christopher Cook pieces together the story of the ancient Goethe's Oak tree in Buchenwald.
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Looking for Leonora
Joanna Moorhead traces the life of celebrated surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
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Coleridge in Gottingen
John Worthen walks in the footsteps of Coleridge as the poet visited Gottingen in 1798.
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Robert Schumann and the Music of the Future
Steven Isserlis reappraises the music Schumann wrote in the last years of his life.
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The First English Opera
Claire van Kampen goes in search of the lost operatic masterpiece The Siege of Rhodes.
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I Come From There: The Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
Harriett Gilbert explores the life and work of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
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The Pleasure Telephone
The story of how the early telephone was used to broadcast live news and entertainment.
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Theatre at the Front Line
Zeinab Badawi reports from Khartoum on theatre groups helping those caught up in conflict.
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The Glasgow Boys
AL Kennedy on the work and legacy of the 'Glasgow Boys', Scotland's first modern artists.
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A World Beyond Narnia
Louise Doughty explores the growth of the young adult fiction market in the UK.
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John Dankworth in South Africa
The story of John Dankworth's return to South Africa after a gap of 50 years.
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Field Work
Marybeth Hamilton tells the story of the invention of ethnographic fieldwork.
