Five essayists explore the dichotomy of being a deaf professional working with music.
A Different Way to Listen homepage
Katie Derham delves into the surprising connections between classical music and plants.
Music in Bloom homepage
Five leading composers write a personal letter to a young composer (real or imagined).
Letters to a Young Composer homepage
Michael Goldfarb remembers his theatrical life as an actor.
Watching from the Wings homepage
Five stories of myth, magic and cartographic curiosities once widely believed to exist.
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands homepage
The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings.
New Generation Thinkers 2023 homepage
V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford on trying to put a new kind of museum together.
A Museum in the Making homepage
Edith Piaf - from her mouth to your heart. Her life and work explored through five songs.
Edith Piaf in Five Songs homepage
Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
Letters to the Overrated and the Underrated homepage
Sally Marlow asks what five women artists can tell us about addiction through their art.
Women of Substance homepage
Five writers circumnavigate the British Isles in traditional boats - without leaving home.
A Circumnavigation of the British Isles in Five Traditional Boats homepage
Traditional Variety through the lens of a writer's childhood fascination.
That's Entertainment...? Variety and Me homepage
Radio 3 presenters share personal stories of the composer who has inspired them the most.
Secret Admirers (Series 5) homepage
Professor Fiona Stafford explores the history and affection for our favourite puddings.
The Story of Puddings homepage
The city of Leeds seen through its public art - past, present and future.
Looking at Leeds homepage
EP Thompson and his social history, The Making of the English Working Class, reassessed.
The Enormous Condescension of Posterity homepage
Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky (author of Deaf Republic) on the city of his birth.
To Odesa homepage
New short features from audio producers who are underrepresented in the audio industry.
Multitrack homepage
Rachel Cooke takes a wry, robust and wide-ranging look at disappointment.
On Disappointment homepage
New series of The Essay for 91热爆 Radio 3.
Highland Tails homepage
What happens when a musical instrument is destroyed, silenced or recovered?
Five Cellos: Lost and Found homepage
Essays on the small, underappreciated aspects of famous artistic pieces.
The Little Secrets of Great Works homepage
Michael Goldfarb looks at five US authors whose books were the subject of controversy.
Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s homepage
Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.
Black Country Secrets homepage
The astonishing oeuvre of Charles Aznavour, captured in five Essays on just five songs.
Charles Aznavour in Five Songs homepage
Se谩n Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.
Death in Trieste homepage
Jerry Brotton looks at those from around the world who made their homes in Tudor England.
We Other Tudors homepage
Essays marking the 400th anniversary of the printing of Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623.
Reading the First Folio homepage
New Generation Thinkers 2022 homepage
Five bicycle-shaped musings from writer, raconteur and life-long cyclist Andrew Martin.
Re: Cycling homepage
