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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Sunday Feature: Dennis Potter
Sun 15 Jun 2014
The playwright Dennis Potter died twenty years ago. Matthew Sweet reassesses the of of...
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Sonic Art Boom
Sun 8 Jun 2014
Dan Jones, composer and sound designer, considers why it has taken so long for Sound a...
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Sunday Feature: Dylan Thomas the Radio Poet
Sun 4 May 2014
Writer Rachel Trezise - the first winner of the annual Dylan Thomas Prize - tells the...
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Sunday Feature: Educating Isaac
Sun 27 Apr 2014
Could your child compose like Mozart? While searching for a creative and fun way to a...
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Sunday Feature:Merchant Ivory
Sun 6 Apr 2014
Style, flair, individuality, ideas... and stars. The filmic output of the remarkable...
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Sunday Feature: Music and the Jews (3/3)
Sun 23 Mar 2014
Norman Lebrecht presents the last of three programmes examining the complex between...
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Music and the Jews (2/3)
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Norman Lebrecht presents the second of three programmes examining the complex between...
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Music and the Jews (1/3)
Wed 19 Mar 2014
Norman Lebrecht presents the first programme in a three-part series examining the and...
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Shanghai World City Redux
Sun 26 Jan 2014
Rana Mitter reveals how Shanghai today is forging its identity as an ultramodern city...
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Somme
Sun 5 Jan 2014
Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river whose character belies its violent...
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Anything But Banal - the Fascination of the Villain
Fri 3 Jan 2014
Paul Allen explores the allure of evil through great villains, from Hollywood baddies...
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15th December: Ideas of Germany
Sun 15 Dec 2013
Anne McElvoy finds out how those active in Germany's cultural world see the identity...
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The Invisible Theatre
Sun 8 Dec 2013
Tom Service and others explore the history of the festival theatre in Bayreuth that of...
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Sunday Feature: 1 December 2013 - Ken Adam Profile
Tue 3 Dec 2013
Matthew Sweet meets Ken Adam, the 92-year-old designer of iconic sets from Dr No and...
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Albert Camus: Inside the Outsider
Sun 3 Nov 2013
Professor Hussey celebrates the life, work and tragic death of literature's enigmatic...
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Sunday Feature - Production Line Living
Sun 27 Oct 2013
How has the factory production line changed us? AL Kennedy finds out.
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Sound of Cinema: Composing for Hollywood
Sun 22 Sep 2013
Once upon a time Hollywood composers were classically schooled European maestros.
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Significant Others ep 2
Sun 14 Jul 2013
The thousand-year-old story of the Jewish presence in Poland was all but ended by the...
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Sunday Feature - Stirring Up A Revolution
Sun 9 Jun 2013
Author and journalist Tarek Osman returns to the Middle East to explore how the of the...
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Sunday Feature - Wagner: Making a National Hero
Sun 19 May 2013
As part of Wagner 200, Stephen Johnson explores the worlds of Wagner's heroes, from to...
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Jan Morris, Travels Round My House
Sun 12 May 2013
Writer Anthony Sattin visits Jan Morris's Welsh home on the 60th anniversary of the of...
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Sunday Feature - Piano's Music Boxes
Sun 5 May 2013
Renzo Piano is the architect behind the tallest building in Western Europe, The Shard...
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (3 of 3)
Sun 24 Feb 2013
The Reverend Richard Coles visits Lincoln Cathedral, the focus of Medieval pilgrimage,...
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (2 of 3)
Sun 17 Feb 2013
The Reverand Richard Coles explores notions of temptation and its part in contemporary...
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (1 of 3)
Sun 10 Feb 2013
In this first of three programmes, Richard explores what exactly is meant by sin, and...
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Modernism Redux
Mon 4 Feb 2013
Will Self broadcasts an imaginary archive of modernist radio and discusses the of...
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Margaret are you Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping
Mon 4 Feb 2013
Throughout our cultural history, tears have been intimately connected with the arts,...
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A Brief History of Being Cold
Sun 20 Jan 2013
Sunday Feature: Alexandra Harris presents a cultural history of the cold.S.
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Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon
Sun 2 Dec 2012
In 1812 Napoleon led his army to Moscow. In War and Peace Tolstoy gave his account of...
