The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Sunday Feature - Blind, Black and Blue
Why were so many of the early blues musicians in America's Deep South blind?
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Sunday Feature - A Portrait of Val Wilmer
Jazz writer, social historian, acclaimed photographer: Val Wilmer. What drives her?
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Still Will
Laura Barton explores the silences and intimacies of Shakespeare's theatrical craft
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Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide
Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.
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South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower
Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight
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Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood
Once upon a time Hollywood composers were classically schooled European maestros.
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Sonic Art Boom
Dan Jones, composer and sound designer, considers why it has taken so long for Sound a...
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Somme
Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river whose character belies its violent...
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Sir Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone
Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates Isaac Newton's more obscure studies in Alchemy.
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Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan
How experimental composer John Cage came to write his infamous silent piece, 4鈥�33鈥�
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Significant Others ep 2
The thousand-year-old story of the Jewish presence in Poland was all but ended by the...
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Significant Others 1
The story of the Jewish presence in Poland
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Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli
Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery.
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Shanghai World City Redux
Rana Mitter reveals how Shanghai today is forging its identity as an ultramodern city...
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Seven Ages of Memory
Philip Ball explores the lifetime of our musical memories.
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Scott Ross - Harpsichord Rebel
Phil Hebblethwaite traces the complex life of an early music maverick.
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Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip
300 years since Robinson Crusoe was published, Emma Smith traces it across the centuries
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Riding the Waves
Musicians and writers immerse themselves in the writing of Virginia Woolf.
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Rewiring Raymond Scott
Ken Hollings assesses the legacy of the American electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.
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Resurrecting Mayakovsky
Ian Sansom attempts to resurrect the spirit of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Rebel Sounds: Musical Resistance in Barbados
Peter Brathwaite discovers the music of his black enslaved & white slave-owning ancestors
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Power Plays
How theatre challenged the East German government - but was swept aside as communism fell
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Poles Apart
The unknown tale of cold war communist Poland鈥檚 love affair with electronic music
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Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall
Actor Lily Cole plays Elizabeth Siddall who climbs out of her grave to tell her story.
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Piano Tales - A Social History of the Piano
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb explores the development and enduring appeal of the...
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Phoenix Rising - The Story of Coventry Cathedral
Giles Fraser examines the history, ministry and artistic legacy of Coventry Cathedral...
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Opera Across the Waves
Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.
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Oh Dr Kinsey Look What You've Done to Me
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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O Sole Mio
On the streets of Naples, Joanna Robertson celebrates the city's unique musical tradition
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Northern Lights: True Norse
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.
