The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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SUNDAY FEATURE: NEW GENERATION THINKERS
The lost Modernist poet Hope Mirlees & the fate of North Africa's Jews during WW 2.
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Christopher Harding explores the influence of Freud in India, China and Japan, and on...
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Sunday Feature: Music and the Jews (3/3)
Norman Lebrecht presents the last of three programmes examining the complex between...
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Sunday Feature: Monteverdi's Women
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
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Sunday Feature: Mission Harpsichord
Virtuoso Mahan Esfahani and the harpsichord.
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Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100
Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.
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Sunday Feature: Memoirs of the Spacewomen
Matthew Sweet delves into the science fiction futures of Naomi Mitchison, Rose and...
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Sunday Feature: Margaret Fay Shaw’s Hebridean Odyssey
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Looking for the Moor
Hugh Quarshie seeks resolution to the dilemmas of a black actor playing Othello
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Sunday Feature: Let Her Speak
Emily Maitlis explores women and public speaking, through speeches, acting and debate.
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Sunday Feature: Left-Handed Liberty
Amidst the 800 year celebrations for Magna Carta, Andrew Dickson hears about one of to...
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Sunday Feature: Langston Hughes at the Third
An unlikely friendship led to a radio series presented by the great poet Langston Hughes
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Sunday Feature: King Kong – the Township Jazz Musical
Saxophonist Soweto Kinch uncovers the story of ‘King Kong', the township jazz musical.
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Sunday Feature: Keats goes North
Fiona Stafford recreates John Keats’ epic walk of 1818 which inspired his greatest works
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Sunday Feature: Kandinsky - a story of revolution
How Moscow - its architecture and aesthetics - influenced Kandinsky's artistic vision.
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Sunday Feature: John Tusa's Opera Journey
John Tusa revisits the three provincial German towns where he first discovered opera
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Sunday Feature: John Ruskin's Eurythmic Girls
Samira Ahmed explores how John Ruskin revolutionised girls' education
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Sunday Feature: Into the Forest - The Pine Tree
The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas day - the Pine tree.
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Sunday Feature: Into the Eerie
Will Abberley. Interest in the ‘Eerie' amongst English artists, writers and musicians
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Sunday Feature: Into the Eerie
Will Abberley explores the recent interest in the ‘Eerie'
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Sunday Feature: In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna
Using diaries and memoirs Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the Congress of Vienna...
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Sunday Feature: In the Shadow of the Tower
Andrew Hussey travels across Paris to understand how the Eiffel Tower, and the huge to...
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Sunday Feature: In Search of the Sublime
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: In search of Arabic Classical Music
Kate Molleson encounters spectacularly skilful instrumentalists in Cairo
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Sunday Feature: I Know an Island
Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley
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Sunday Feature: How to Re-Build a City
Dr Lisa Mullen finds out how blitzed Coventry became the City of Tomorrow.
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Sunday Feature: Hidden Women and Silenced Scores
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: HG and the H-bomb
Samira Ahmed explores the role of HG Wells in the creation of the nuclear bomb
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Sunday Feature: Haus Work – Women of the Bauhaus
The life and work of the women of the radical German art college the Bauhaus.
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Sunday Feature: Harmony of the Spheres
Jerry Brotton seeks the ancient idea that places music at the centre of our universe.