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Jung's Red Book
Bidisha on Carl Jung's Red Book, where the psychiatrist recorded experiments on himself.
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Learning to Swim
Writer Ian Sansom reflects on the role of swimming in life and literature.
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My First Prom
A first-timer attends his first ever Prom concert.
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Rain
Poet and archaeologist Peter Didsbury extols the joys of rain.
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Summer Over England
Nigel Forde presents an evocation of summer, drawn from recordings in the 大象传媒 archive.
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A Woman without a Country
John Cheever's story about a young American woman who graces Europe's glamour spots.
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Bartok and the Good Master
Meg Rosoff celebrates a Hungarian children's classic novel by a contemporary of Bartok.
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He Played It Left-Hand
Novelist Louise Doughty investigates the influence of left-handedness on creativity.
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Tibet on the Banks of the Clyde
Louise Walsh asks if the first British envoy to Tibet had two children with a local woman.
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A String to Your Bow
Andrew McGregor explores the intricate craft of making a violin bow.
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Mouche
Bill Nighy reads a summery tale of love and friendship by Guy de Maupassant.
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The Hothouse
A charming tale about friendship and old age by acclaimed Finnish writer, Tove Jansson.
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The Summer House
Kate Clanchy on the importance of the summer house to people in Scandinavia and Russia.
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Inside the Orchestra
Horn player and humourist Ian Fisher reveals what really happens off the concert platform.
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The World Orchestra for Peace
Tom Service profiles the World Orchestra for Peace, founded in 1995 by Georg Solti.
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Ravel in Paris
Barbara Kelly goes in search of composer Maurice Ravel in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
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Children of the Revolution
Lesley Chamberlain tells the stories of children displaced by the Russian Revolution.
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The Musical Path through Dementia
Edward Jones reflects on caring for his wife through dementia and the new love they found.
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The Albertopolis Wine King
Christopher Cook tells the story of a 19th-century maverick and wine-lover.
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The Bear
A thought-provoking story about identity by award-winning writer Jeremy Dyson.
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Dance of the Daleks
Matthew Sweet investigates the weird and wonderful incidental music of Doctor Who.
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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
An excerpt from the diaries of Leo Tolstoy's wife Sofia.
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Denglisch No More?
Thomas Franke on the growth of English language being used today in German.
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The Garden of Time
JG Ballard's story in which a dangerous rabble comes close as Mozart rings out from villa.
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Concerning Franklin and His Gallant Crew
Julian May on Lord Franklin's voyage to the Northwest Passage and the song about it.
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Ryabov and Kozhin
A man confronts the former policeman who had a hand in his own father's fate years before.
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Monsieur Rose
Irene Nemirovsky's story about a dislocated Parisian at the onset of the Second World War.
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I'm Sorry I Killed Your Fish
Linguist Eva Ogiermann considers how different cultures apologise and what this means.
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Seadrift
Jane Darke reflects on the objects washed up at the bottom of her garden in Cornwall.
