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Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: The Bronx

Writer Michael Goldfarb on driving through smouldering ruins in the Bronx in the 1970s.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: The Artistic Scene

Why 70s New York was a place of violence and economic collapse, but also artistic ferment.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: Changes

Michael Goldfarb explores how New York and its taxi industry have changed since the 1970s.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Public Brahms, Private Brahms

Pianist Natasha Loges considers what lay behind Brahms's famously gruff public persona.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and Nature

Writer Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and Germany

Natasha Loges explores Brahms's complex political relationship with his homeland.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and Freud

Lesley Chamberlain asks what can be learnt by comparing the work of Brahms and Freud.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and the Future

Pianist and writer Natasha Loges discusses Brahms's views on the future of music.

• 15 mins

Mark Ravenhill: the Gall Bladder

Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect starting with Mark Ravenhill.

• 14 mins

Afua Hirsch on Maggie Tulliver

Afua Hirsch on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 13 mins

Forests of the Imagination

Fiona Stafford asks why artists are drawn to the imaginative possibilities of the forest.

• 14 mins

Christina Patterson: the Skin

Christina Patterson reflects on the skin and her own experience of living with acne.

• 14 mins

Daljit Nagra: the Lungs

Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect. In this edition Daljit Nagra

• 14 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Samuel West

Actor Samuel West explores the art of performance and declarative language.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Olivia O'Leary

Journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary describes the influence of radio on her.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: David Hendy

Media professor and historian David Hendy on early anxieties about radio's power.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Roger Phillips

Roger Phillips describes his job as the listening anchorman of a daily phone-in programme.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Fi Glover

Broadcaster Fi Glover on how radio voices 'make the global local and the local global'.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Saint Ciappelletto

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron. A man makes his deathbed confession

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Federigo and His Falcon

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron about a lovelorn man's quest.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

How Elena Blew Hot and Cold

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron. A young widow snubs the wrong man.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

How to Get It off Your Chest

Terry Jones with a retelling from The Decameron. A man finds his wife with his best friend

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Kind Hearts and Bayonets

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron about virtuous men in a dirty world.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

The Sweetest Young Man in Perugia

Terry Jones with a retelling of a story from The Decameron about a dissatisfied young wife

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

The Wager

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron. A casual bet changes three lives.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

A Job for the Boys

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron about a man posing as a deaf mute.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Love Lies Sleeping

Terry Jones presents a retelling from The Decameron about loves which lead us to disaster.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

A Quiet Night in Naples

Terry Jones presents a retelling from The Decameron about adventures which end in triumph.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

England

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in wartime Britain as a boy.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

France

Frederic Raphael recalls his life as a young writer in the post-war Paris of Sartre.

• 15 mins