Creativity, performance, debate
An anthropologist, a poet, an archaeologist and an angler reflect on the culture of rivers
Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents five Essays from the banks of British rivers.
Matthew Sweet with a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with Ian McKellen.
Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.
The writer Ken Hollings reflects on his literary encounters with Friedrich Nietzsche.
With Mark Haddon, Kate Fox and Rachael Allen.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns with Christopher Frayling + conjuring tricks & bias
Shakespeare's penetrating portrayal of political turmoil in a society at war with itself.
Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of American poet John Ashbery, who died in 2017.
Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer and talks to novelist Bernardine Evaristo.
Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott.
Ian McMillan and guests explore writing about insects.
Alan Johnson, Pascale Petit, Hisham Matar and Peter Pomerantsev join Eleanor Barraclough.
Ian Sansom resumes his imaginary correspondences with the world's great writers.
Commonly considered Shakespeare's last play about love, betrayal and disguise.
Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature
From techno music in Berlin to the Glasgow 鈥榬ag trade鈥�, and divisive dams to fake news.
Alex Bulmer follows in the footsteps of 19th-century blind travel writer James Holman.
One of Shakespeare's earliest plays 鈥� about love, betrayal and disguise.
Sally Marlow reveals the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Nigerian novelist Chibundu Onuzo contemplates doubting Thomas at the National Gallery.
With Kate Fox, Jenny Colgan, Matthew Ingram, Jarlath Killeen and Kiru Taye.
At the National Gallery, writer Sheila Hayman views a life-affirming Crucifixion scene.
