The Radio 3 Documentary Podcast
In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on 大象传媒 Radio 3.
Episodes to download
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The Envy of the World: Rudely Truncated
Wed 28 Sep 2016
Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996
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The Envy of the World: No Fixed Points
Wed 28 Sep 2016
Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.
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Dawn on the Somme
Thu 7 Jul 2016
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part
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Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli
Wed 22 Jun 2016
Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery.
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An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Ian McMillan on the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936,that changed everything
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Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century
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Literary Pursuits: Dubliners
Wed 1 Jun 2016
Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.
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Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion
Wed 25 May 2016
Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written.
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Sunday Feature: Arnold Wesker
Fri 13 May 2016
Arnold Wesker, who died in April of this year,looking back at his life and career.
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Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip
Mon 25 Apr 2016
Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet
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Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100
Mon 18 Apr 2016
Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.
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Brainwash Culture
Fri 11 Mar 2016
If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick
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The Venice Ghetto
Mon 7 Mar 2016
Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.
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Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916
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Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide
Mon 15 Feb 2016
Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.
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South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight
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Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Mon 11 Jan 2016
Sarah Dillon goes on the hunt for the story behind how Great Expectations was written.
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Northern Lights: True Norse
Wed 16 Dec 2015
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.
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Above Sixty, Below Zero
Mon 7 Dec 2015
Lesley Riddoch examines the changing relationship between man and nature in the North.
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Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain
Fri 20 Nov 2015
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain
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New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter & The Life and Life of Richard Baxter
Mon 16 Nov 2015
The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter
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Hardy and the Animals and Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism?
Wed 4 Nov 2015
Alasdair Cochrane on Thomas Hardy and animals; Will Abberley on evolutionary psychology.
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This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France
Tue 27 Oct 2015
Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.
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Why Music?
Tue 29 Sep 2015
Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.
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Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60
Tue 22 Sep 2015
Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making & meanings of Rebel Without a Cause
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Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death?
Fri 26 Jun 2015
Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing
Mon 22 Jun 2015
Mary King investigates how advances in our anatomy knowledge are changing the way we sing
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Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity
Sun 7 Jun 2015
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of W B Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
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Sunday Feature: Left-Handed Liberty
Sun 31 May 2015
Amidst the 800 year celebrations for Magna Carta, Andrew Dickson hears about one of to...
