The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Sunday Feature: The Emergency – Creative freedom in wartime Dublin (origination, New Normal Productions)
Regan Hutchins on how dancers, spies, writers and artists brought creativity to Dublin.
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Sunday Feature: The Dvorak Statement
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: The Day of the Locust
Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's great 1938 Hollywood novel The Day...
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Sunday Feature: The Bloomsbury Lighthouse
Tracing activities of propagandists Graham Greene, George Orwell, A L Lloyd & Laurie Lee.
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Sunday Feature: The Battle for Henry David Thoreau
The 200th birthday of Thoreau raises new questions about his legacy.
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Sunday Feature: The Ancient Algorithm
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Tate Modern - Exploding the Canon
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Tales from the Caspian Sea (part 1)
The rich cultural history of the Caspian and its history as the ancient land of fire
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Sunday Feature: Taking it all back Home
British singer and song-collector Sam Lee asks in what sense can a sound be ‘taken back’?
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Sunday Feature: Supernatural Japan
An alternative look at modern Japan's uneasy relationship with ghosts and ghost stories.
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Sunday Feature: Still Will
Laura Barton explores the silences and intimacies of Shakespeare's plays
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Sunday Feature: Silent Spaces
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Should Feminists read Baudelaire?
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar
The story of Shostakovich's Symphony No 13 and the trailblazing poem which inspired it
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Sunday Feature: Select/Copy/Paste (2/3) Execution
Clemency Burton-Hill explores what technological advances offer to artists.
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Sunday Feature: Select Copy Paste 3 of 3 - Experience
Clemency Burton-Hill explores what technological advances offer to artists.
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Sunday Feature: Select Copy Paste 1 of 3 - Conception
Clemency Burton-Hill explores how technology has changed the way we come up with ideas
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Sunday Feature: Savage Pilgrims
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Regarding the Pain of Others
´óÏó´«Ã½ Correspondent Allan Little addresses the gulf between the reality of war and our abil
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Sunday Feature: Philip French and the Critical Ear
Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French
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Sunday Feature: Patrick Kavanagh - the Inexhaustible Adventure of a Gravelled Yard
50 years after Kavanagh's death Theo Dorgan finds out why the Irish poet is so loved now
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Sunday Feature: Palace of Shame
It's a story of loot, revenge and devastated beauty that looms over British-Chinese...
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Sunday Feature: Our Birmingham Fathers
Three people grieving their musician fathers in the worlds of folk, classical and ska
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Sunday Feature: Our Birmingham Fathers
Three people are grieving their musician fathers, and dealing with their legacies.
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Sunday Feature: Nuit Blanche
Why are some people at their most creative at night?
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Sunday Feature: Not Suitable for Children
Dr Sophie Coulombeau explores the history of children's literature and censorship.
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Sunday Feature: Nobody Knows My Name - Notes on James Baldwin
Contemporary writers and activists on the renowned American writer, James Baldwin
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Sunday Feature: Nixon in China
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck
Two Features by R3 New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck.
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Features from two New Generation Thinkers on Afrofuturism and German Lieder