成人快手

Earth Music Bristol

Birdsong

Behaviour expert Professor Tim Birkhead explores how birds learn to sing.

• 15 mins

Earth Music Bristol

On Lyre Birds and Bell Birds

Composer Edward Cowie shares his enthusiasm for lyre and bell birds.

• 15 mins

Earth Music Bristol

Symphonic Impressions

Bird song recordist Geoff Sample explores whether birds sings symphonically.

• 15 mins

Earth Music Bristol

Woof and Tweet

Poet and writer Paul Farley explores why a bittern can sound like reggae.

• 15 mins

Looking and Looking Away

Not Responsibility: Shame

Christopher Bigsby reflects on WG Sebald's writings on his German homeland.

• 15 mins

Looking and Looking Away

Teaching by Example

Uwe Schutte reflects on the life and work of writer WG Sebald, who was once his teacher.

• 15 mins

Looking and Looking Away

A Translator's View

Anthea Bell offers a translator's view on the life and work of WG Sebald.

• 15 mins

Looking and Looking Away

Sebald the Poet

Poet George Szirtes reflects on German writer WG Sebald's poetry.

• 15 mins

Looking and Looking Away

A History of Memory or a Memory of History?

Amanda Hopkinson lifts the lid on German writer WG Sebald's photographic archive.

• 15 mins

The Writer's Dickens

Tessa Hadley - Rooms and Reality

Tessa Hadley on how Dickens paints the reality of his world through characters' houses.

• 15 mins

The Writer's Dickens

Romesh Gunesekera - The Orphan Eye

Romesh Gunesekera on how Dickens addresses the move from childhood into the world beyond.

• 15 mins

The Writer's Dickens

AL Kennedy - No Hope of Return

AL Kennedy explores Dickens' literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.

• 15 mins

The Writer's Dickens

Alexander McCall Smith - Episodic Writing

Writer Alexander McCall Smith salutes Charles Dickens's mastery of the episodic form.

• 15 mins

The Writer's Dickens

Justin Cartwright - Christmas

Justin Cartwright reflects on the place that Christmas occupies in Charles Dickens's work.

• 15 mins

British War Films of the 50s

The Cruel Sea

Simon Heffer on the film The Cruel Sea, about the price of victory in World War Two.

• 15 mins

British War Films of the 50s

The Colditz Story

Simon Heffer discusses the film The Colditz Story, which celebrated British resilience.

• 15 mins

British War Films of the 50s

The Dam Busters

Simon Heffer discusses the depiction of British heroism in the film The Dam Busters.

• 15 mins

British War Films of the 50s

Carve Her Name with Pride

Writer Simon Heffer celebrates the 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride.

• 15 mins

British War Films of the 50s

Dunkirk

Simon Heffer on one of the last and best-loved films of the post WWII era: Dunkirk.

• 15 mins

The Sound and the Fury

Episode 1

Andrew Martin explains 'phonophobia' and the strange measures he takes to banish it.

• 15 mins

The Sound and the Fury

Episode 2

Andrew Martin laments 'piped music' and what he considers to be its worsening quality.

• 15 mins

The Sound and the Fury

Episode 3

Andrew Martin on his boyhood love of train travel and noises on public transport today.

• 15 mins

The Sound and the Fury

Episode 4

Andrew Martin looks to the skies, to those rumblings that always discombobulate him.

• 15 mins

The Sound and the Fury

Episode 5

Andrew Martin describes how in order to escape noise, he goes on a retreat in Essex.

• 15 mins

Happily Ever After

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz explores family dysfunction through Roald Dahl's Matilda.

• 15 mins

Happily Ever After

Anne Fine

Anne Fine gives a feminist view of the nostalgia for our favourite childhood books.

• 15 mins

Happily Ever After

Trish Cooke

Trish Cooke explores the importance of children's books reflecting different cultures.

• 15 mins

Happily Ever After

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen considers the changing role of the family in children's literature.

• 15 mins

On Directing

Roger Michell

Roger Michell on emotions that go with starting a film, as he makes Hyde Park on Hudson.

• 15 mins

On Directing

Emma Rice

Kneehigh Theatre's Emma Rice explores the director's role as a storyteller.

• 15 mins