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The Lost World of the LP

Episode 4

David Hepworth discusses the golden age, and recent resurgence, of vinyl records.

• 14 mins

The Lost World of the LP

Episode 5

David Hepworth discusses the golden age, and recent resurgence, of vinyl records.

• 14 mins

Writing Music

Hermione Hoby on Steve Reich

Author Hermione Hoby reveals how Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians helps her write.

• 14 mins

Writing Music

Minoo Dinshaw on Mendelssohn

Minoo Dinshaw questions identity by tuning in to Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Third Symphony.

• 14 mins

Writing Music

Barbara Trapido on Stravinsky

For Barbara Trapido, nothing is as it seems in Stravinsky’s ballet, Pulcinella.

• 14 mins

Writing Music

Hannah Beckerman on Brahms

For Hannah Beckerman, Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is a masterclass in storytelling.

• 14 mins

Writing Music

Preti Taneja on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Author Preti Taneja mediates on a Sufi devotional song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

• 14 mins

Weird England

Tar Bar'l

Novelist Naomi Booth is drawn to the fiery energy of Allendale’s New Year festivities.

• 14 mins

Weird England

Weird England: Hunting the Earl

Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett sets out to Hunt the Earl of Rone in Devon,

• 14 mins

Weird England

Weird England: Bonfire

Writer David Barnes is immersed in history and myth at Lewes Bonfire.

• 14 mins

Weird England

Snatch Valentine

Writer Laura Joyce follows Jack Valentine down the streets of Norwich.

• 14 mins

Weird England

Horn Dance

Poet Lila Matsumoto visits Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire and the ancient Horn Dance.

• 14 mins

King Raedwald

Martin Carver on the inhabitant of the magnificent Sutton Hoo ship burial

• 15 mins

Cuthbert

Historian Tony Morris explores the life of Cuthbert, the popular saint of the Northeast/

• 15 mins

Eadfrith the Scribe

Richard Gameson explores the literary, historical and artistic legacy of scribes..

• 15 mins

The Beowulf Bard

The late Seamus Heaney's exploration of the great bard of the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf.

• 15 mins

Bede, the Father of English History

Scholar of the Anglo Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.

• 15 mins

Alfred the Great

Michael Wood discusses Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.

• 15 mins

The Smith - Gold and Black

Leslie Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.

• 15 mins

Aethelred the Unready

Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.

• 15 mins

Edward the Confessor

Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.

• 15 mins

Harold Godwinson

Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.

• 15 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn

Alice Oswald explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy

Sean O'Brien explores the depth and meaning of Keats's Ode on Melancholy,

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn

Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats's Ode to Autumn.

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche

Paul Batchelor explores possibly the least familiar of the great Keats odes of 1819.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

21/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

22/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

23/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins