Statues and sculptures
Open Country. Ash to Ash. Audio, 25 minutes
Ash trees are dying from ash dieback. Helen Mark hears how Kent is preserving their memory
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- Available for over a year
More or Less. Heart age calculator; Danish sperm imports; The size of the services sector; The 'safest car on the road'; Counting goats. Audio, 28 minutes
Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.
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Great Exhibition of the North. Art. Audio, 28 minutes
How artists at the Great Exhibition of the North are embracing its theme of innovation.
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- Available for over a year
The World in 3D. Audio, 27 minutes
Seeing the Kathe Kollwitz sculpture Mother and Her Dead Son can change your life.
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- Available for over a year
Street Art. Series 1, People. Audio, 30 minutes
The public art series continues with a look at public art - and who gets to join in?
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- Available for over a year
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- Posted11 February 2018
Street Art. Series 1, Place. Audio, 30 minutes
Dr Cadence Kinsey asks how 'place' informs contemporary public art in the UK.
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Why the Moon, Luke? Audio, 30 minutes
Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.
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- Available for over a year
In the Studio. Doris Salcedo: Weeping names. Audio, 28 minutes
Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo's artwork weeps the names of migrants who have died
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Sunday Feature. A Column for Infinity. Audio, 44 minutes
Patrick McGuinness discusses Brancusi's war memorial, the Endless Column in Romania.
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- Available for over a year
The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 5 Tatlin. Audio, 15 minutes
Art historian Christina Lodder describes the influence of sculptor Vladimir Tatlin.
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- Available for over a year
George Orwell Back at the ´óÏó´«Ã½. Audio, 30 minutes
A new statue of George Orwell is created to stand outside New Broadcasting House.
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Punt PI. Series 10, Taking the Pissoir? Audio, 30 minutes
Why would anyone submit a urinal as a work of art to a gallery, and then lie about it?
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Great Lives. Germaine Greer on Dame Elizabeth Frink. Audio, 30 minutes
Germaine Greer nominates sculptor Dame Elizabeth Frink. Presented by Matthew Parris.
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- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. New Generation Thinkers. Audio, 45 minutes
Euphemism and eroticism in Gaelic songs and reappraising sculptor Joseph Nollekens.
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The Why Factor. Statues: Why we put people on pedestals. Audio, 18 minutes
To some statues pay homage to gods, to others they are attempts at immortalising man
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Great Lives. Martin Jennings on Charles Sargeant Jagger. Audio, 30 minutes
Martin Jennings nominates the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.
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The Essay. A Short History of Indian Art, Arjuna's Penance. Audio, 15 minutes
William Dalrymple celebrates a remarkable 7th-century rock carving near the Bay of Bengal.
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The Essay. The Genius of Disability, Arturo Bispo do Rosario: The Sculptor Who Saved the World. Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Shakespeare discusses sculptor Arturo Bispo do Rosario, who had schizophrenia.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Granite. Audio, 15 minutes
Sculptor Peter Randall-Page describes the obduracy of Dartmoor's granite boulders.
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- Available for over a year
