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Cornerstones

Chalk

Alyson Hallett on being drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Room at the Top

Simon Heffer re-examines the 1959 British New Wave film Room at the Top.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

How Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was made into a film.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Simon Heffer explores the 1962 film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

This Sporting Life

Simon Heffer examines the powerful 1963 film version of This Sporting Life.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Billy Liar

Simon Heffer explores Billy Liar, the 1963 British New Wave film starring Tom Courtenay.

• 15 mins

Taking Aim - Renaissance-style

Catherine Fletcher unveils handguns' explosive Renaissance origin

• 13 mins

The Essay: Gun Culture: Gotham's Gun Baron

Brian DeLay reveals the life & arms deals of the most dangerous man you've never heard of

• 13 mins

The Essay: Gun Culture: Pistols At Dawn

John Gallagher duels with the noisy story of guns 300 years ago

• 13 mins

The Essay - Gun Culture - Sniper

Nicholas Rankin explores the emergence of the deadly 'force reducer' that is the sniper

• 13 mins

The Essay - Gun Culture -The Howth Mauser

Heather Jones explores the deadly symbolism of the Howth Mauser

• 13 mins

Gun Culture

Taking Aim - Renaissance-Style

The origins of gunpowder-fired weapons on the battlefields and in Renaissance Italy.

• 15 mins

Gun Culture

Gotham's Gun Baron

Brian DeLay discusses Marcellus Hartley, the first important American arms dealer.

• 15 mins

Gun Culture

Pistols at Dawn

Historian John Gallagher examines the history and etiquette of duelling with pistols.

• 15 mins

Gun Culture

Sniper

Nicholas Rankin explores the emergence of the deadly 'force reducer' that is the sniper.

• 15 mins

Gun Culture

The Howth Mauser

Heather Jones explores the symbolism of the Howth Mauser and other guns.

• 15 mins

Black and White: Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics

Farrah Jarral talks about what it means to be fluent in something one doesn't understand

• 14 mins

Black and White: Words on the Page

Writer Glyn Maxwell on whether we have become too black and white, and too binary.

• 14 mins

Black and White: Yin and Yang

Xiaolu Guo remembers lessons learned from her father growing up in China.

• 14 mins

Black and White: Messrs Smith and Carlos and Norman

Lindsay Johns explains the inspiration he draws from a black and white photo on his desk.

• 14 mins

Black and White

Words on the Page

Glyn Maxwell on whether we have become too black and white, and too binary.

• 15 mins

Black and White

Yin and Yang

Xiaolu Guo remembers lessons learned from her father growing up in China.

• 15 mins

Black and White

Messrs Smith and Carlos and Norman

Lindsay Johns explains the inspiration he draws from a black and white photo at his desk.

• 15 mins

Black and White

Skin

Poet and writer Salena Godden explains her relationship with her skin.

• 15 mins

Strange Beds

Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron recalls booking into a room that once belonged to a merciless Chinese leader

• 15 mins

Strange Beds

Rachel Cooke

Journalist Rachel Cooke on spending a night in accommodation in the wilds of Scotland.

• 15 mins

Strange Beds

Philip Hoare

Philip Hoare on spending a night in a hospital observation ward after falling off his bike

• 15 mins

Strange Beds

John Walsh

Writer John Walsh describes sleeping in a hammock in the jungle in Guyana.

• 15 mins

Strange Beds

Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman describes a trip to the Arctic, where she spent much time confined to bed.

• 15 mins

The Other Auld Alliance

Episode 1

Stuart Kelly on the role that Prince Albert played in the invention of modern Scotland.

• 15 mins