Creativity, performance, debate
Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney celebrates French composer Olivier Messiaen.
Ian Sansom looks at the life and legacy of Soviet poet and artist, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates Romanian composer George Enescu
Samira Ahmed on how the Little House on the Prairie author is regarded in modern America.
Radio 3 presenter Penny Gore celebrates the Czech composer Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek.
A conversation between contemporary figures and archive recordings of James Baldwin.
A radio road movie with Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California.
Susan Marling travels to Massachusetts to assess the legacy of Henry David Thoreau.
Raad Rawi and Pearl Chanda evoke lush summer and parched deserts.
The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas Day.
Radio 3 presenter and poet Ian McMillan celebrates the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the cultural and ecological glories of the summer forest.
Philip Dodd is in conversation with American author James Ellroy.
With Ocean Vuong, Kate Fox, Rob Drummond, Ira Lightman and Mary Jean Chan.
Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.
Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith
Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism.
Michael Goldfarb remembers the mise-en-sc猫ne films of the 1960s and 1970s.
A commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre in August 1819.
Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany.
With Rowan Williams, Adam Thirlwell and Adania Shibli.
Ex-marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman on al-Qaeda and the Iraq War.
Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.
