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Becoming Animal

Belinda Zhawi

Writer and sound artist Belinda Zhawi imagines life as a southern African plains Zebra.

• 14 mins

Becoming Animal

Ned Beauman

Writer Ned Beauman explores the world of the Devon beaver.

• 14 mins

Becoming Animal

Sarah Kosar

Playwright Sarah Kosar flies in the night sky with the soprano pipistrelle bat.

• 14 mins

Becoming Animal

Toby Litt

Writer Toby Litt is inspired by the world of the brown hare.

• 14 mins

Rainsong in Five Senses

India and the Sound of Rain

Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on five different experiences of rain.

• 14 mins

Rainsong in Five Senses

Japan and the Taste of Rain

Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on five different experiences of rain.

• 14 mins

Rainsong in Five Senses

Australia and the Smell of Rain

Nandini Das curates global essays on five different sensory experiences of rain.

• 14 mins

Rainsong in Five Senses

Paris and the Look of Rain

Nandini Das introduces another essay about the global differences in our response to rain.

• 14 mins

Rainsong in Five Senses

England and the Touch of Rain

Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on differing sensory responses to rain.

• 14 mins

Shakespeare's Sisters

Maria Anna Mozart

Lucy Powell explores what happened to 'Nannerl' Mozart.

• 14 mins

Shakespeare's Sisters

Sarah Fielding

Lucy Powell asks why history has forgotten the achievements of novelist Sarah Fielding.

• 14 mins

Shakespeare's Sisters

Fanny Dickens

The brilliant women whose success was often eclipsed by their more famous brothers.

• 14 mins

Shakespeare's Sisters

Katharine Wright

Where is Katharine Wright's place in aviation history?

• 14 mins

Shakespeare's Sisters

Madame E Toussaint Welcome

Lucy Powell remembers one of the first African American film directors.

• 14 mins

John Halifax, Gentleman

2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations

• 13 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi

• 13 mins

Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper

• 13 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden

• 13 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

The Black Lizard

New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.

• 14 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

John Halifax, Gentleman

Clare Walker Gore explains how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations.

• 14 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

Sindhubala

Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.

• 14 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

Closer

Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.

• 14 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

There's No Story There

Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

A Portrait of the Artist

Professor Jerry Brotton explores the darker side of the Italian Renaissance.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

Overture

Cellini鈥檚 early years are spent training as a musician.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

Storming the Capitol

Having built a career as a goldsmith, Cellini becomes a soldier during the Sack of Rome.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

Death in Florence

On his return to Florence, Cellini experiences the horrors of the plague.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

The Scorpion

Cellini roams between the great Italian courts, making art and causing trouble.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

Crime and Punishment

Cellini is imprisoned for over a year in Rome, enduring various attempts on his life.

• 14 mins

Blood and Bronze

Golden Years

Cellini arrives in Fontainebleau to work for Francis I.

• 14 mins