Creativity, performance, debate
Ruskin, Bazalgette and Clough: Laurence Scott examines three of Victoria's class of 1819.
Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo, Stan and Ollie.
Five leading contemporary poets celebrate John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819.
Michael Berkeley鈥檚 guest is actor Clarke Peters.
Tara Fitzgerald and Giles Terera read poems about violins, including Yeats and Whitman.
From holidays to prison breaks, sleep and death, with Adrian Dunbar and Jade Anouka.
Texts and music on the theme of list-making, with readers Jon Strickland and Emma Powell.
A reflection on upheaval inspired by Schiller, Schubert and the Liverpool Biennial.
The story behind the writing of Victor Hugo's book is one of adultery, intrigue and exile.
Cerys Matthews explores the influence of the 150 Psalms on musicians and composers.
Horatio Clare takes a sound walk through a German forest in the tradition of the Wanderer.
Drama exploring the mythic world of selkie and seal stories. Stars Stephen Dillane.
Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner
Song and storytelling with Simon Armitage, Joanne Harris and Owen Roberts
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson
An ecological fable about a perfect society? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.
With Al Kennedy, Amy Liptrot, Marina Benjamin and Bridget Minamore.
A journey to the frozen ends of the Earth, plus theatrical magic from the 17th century.
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips and Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.
Authors meditate on a piece of music that has formed the backdrop to their craft.
Harold Pinter's iconic comedy of menace, The Birthday Party, starring Toby Jones.
With Will Eaves, Ben Schott, Selina Nwulu and Jeremy Noel-Tod
Who's pulling your strings? Matthew Sweet and guests track down today's hidden persuaders.
Sir Paul Nurse and Tristram Hunt debate with an audience at Queen Mary University London.
