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Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Norman Mailer

Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.

• 14 mins

Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Philip Roth

How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.

• 14 mins

Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Joan Williams

Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?

• 14 mins

Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Norman Mailer

Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.

• 14 mins

Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Philip Roth

How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.

• 14 mins

Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s

Joan Williams

Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?

• 14 mins

EarthWorks

Wold

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby discovers the human past in the chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds.

• 14 mins

EarthWorks

Fen

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby digs into the peat of the Fens to unearth tales of change.

• 14 mins

EarthWorks

Mountain

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby goes in search of a Neolithic axe quarry in the Lake District.

• 14 mins

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Island

Rose Ferraby finds signs that Scotland’s Western Isles were once far from remote.

• 14 mins

EarthWorks

Moor

High on Exmoor, archaeologist Rose Ferraby reflects on past change and the future.

• 14 mins

EarthWorks

Town

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby unearths a Roman town in Yorkshire, and considers communities.

• 14 mins

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Grave

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores how archaeology invites us to be with death.

• 14 mins

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Quarry

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby descends underground to visit Devon’s Beer Quarry Caves.

• 14 mins

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Field

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby teases out a North Yorkshire field’s place in changing times

• 14 mins

EarthWorks

Monument

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores a Neolithic henge in the Peak District

• 14 mins

The Little Secrets of Great Works

You've Got Mail

Children's novelist Elle McNicoll discusses one line from Nora Ephron's romantic comedy.

• 14 mins

The Little Secrets of Great Works

Sibelius's Fifth Symphony

Financial Times journailst Stephen Bush on the third movement of Sibelius's Symphony No 5.

• 14 mins

The Little Secrets of Great Works

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Sam Leith on his fascination with a background figure in Judith Kerr's classic book.

• 14 mins

The Little Secrets of Great Works

Field of Dreams

Writer Sarfraz Manzoor discusses one moment in the Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams.

• 14 mins

The Little Secrets of Great Works

Frida Kahlo's Broken Column

Art historian Katy Hessel on the symbolism of the spine in Frida Kahlo's Broken Column.

• 14 mins

Five Cellos: Lost and Found

The Soul of Music

Kate Kennedy reflects on her quest to find Pal Hermann's cello, and his soul.

• 14 mins

Five Cellos: Lost and Found

The Bee Cello

The story of an abandoned cello that a physicist has filled with 400,000 bees.

• 14 mins

Five Cellos: Lost and Found

The Auschwitz Cello

How the cellist of Auschwitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch's life was saved by her cello.

• 14 mins

Five Cellos: Lost and Found

The Shipwrecked Cello

The unlikely story of the reconstruction of the 'Mara' Stradivarius.

• 14 mins

Five Cellos: Lost and Found

The Flat-Pack Cello

Kate Kennedy reflects on a reimagined cello whose story is yet to begin.

• 14 mins

Highland Tails

The Reindeer

An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands

• 14 mins

Highland Tails

The Sea Eagle

An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands

• 14 mins

Highland Tails

The Wallabies

An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands

• 14 mins

Highland Tails

The Beaver

An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands

• 14 mins