Creativity, performance, debate
The reggae poet and recording artist talks politics, religion and writing with Philip Dodd
How has Val Wilmer become a world figure in the documentation of Black music and culture?
Singer Nancy Kerr explains why forests provide such perfect metaphors in folk music.
Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the cultural cold war.
A meditative journey within the sonic backdrop of the ancient Indian city of Varanasi.
Aoife McMahon and William Hope view the world through glass screens and handheld devices.
Music by Britten, Lili Boulanger, Baaba Maal. Prose about Noah, the Kon-Tiki, refugees now
What's the most pertinent emotion in 2019 UK: Joy, anger, anxiety, schadenfreude or shame?
Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson celebrates French composer Eliane Radigue.
Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two today through film.
An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.
The 40 Days of Musa Dagh was both prophecy and epic paean to survival.
Patrick McGuinness discusses Brancusi's war memorial, the Endless Column in Romania.
How do Russia's latest cultural emigres feel about leaving their homeland?
A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.
Radio 3 presenter Andrew McGregor celebrates Thomas Tallis's powerful Lamentations.
Sarah Parish and John Nettles with westward-looking readings by Betjeman, Hardy and others
Radio 3 presenter Kathryn Tickell celebrates composer and folksong fanatic Percy Grainger.
Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny celebrates English composer Lennox Berkeley.
How one of Britain's best-known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
Sarah Dillon finds out the story behind the writing of RL Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde.
Radio 3 presenter John Toal celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel.
Without Richard Burbage, there would be no Shakespeare. Yet he's not well known - why?
Lindsay Johns argues that novelist Alex La Guma is an overlooked literary colossus.
