Creativity, performance, debate
Danny Dorling, Lionel Shriver and Stephen Emmott debate with Matthew Sweet.
Catherine Fletcher measures the impact of Monteverdi's real and fictional female figures.
Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.
James Rhodes goes in hunt of his boyhood hero, Candian pianist Glenn Gould.
Soweto Kinch discovers the remarkable story behind the apartheid-era musical, King Kong.
Paul Farley presents a profile of a unique poet, playwright and director, Tony Harrison.
Mahan Esfahani discovers the past and present of African-American classical music.
Jon Gower uncovers the work of pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.
Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music.
Michael Berkeley's guest is cricket commentator Henry Blofeld.
With Rachael Stirling and Paul Bentall.
Michael Berkeley's guest is the Children's Laureate Lauren Child.
Writers reflect on how a favoured location is determined by its underlying geology
Kevin LeGendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.
Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how Black Mountain College launched many American artists.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates the artistic community of New Mexico.
The Rev Lucy Winkett takes a musical tour of the Reformation.
The story of how three trips to South America in the 1950s changed Pierre Boulez's life.
Shirli Gilbert reveals the complex history of music composed in the Nazi camps and ghettos
Horatio Clare sets out to retrace JS Bach's famous 250-mile walk from Arnstadt to Lubeck.
Laurence Scott on radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French.
Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life...
Exploring the ways the Third Programme reflected the lives of so-called ordinary people.
Writer Howard Jacobson delivers a keynote lecture on why we need the novel.
