The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Sunday Feature: Afterwords 鈥� Susan Sontag
A fragmentary look at the American writer Susan Sontag.
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Sunday Feature: Afterwords 鈥� Muriel Spark
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Afterwords - Stuart Hall
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: Afterwords
Through the words of Martha Gellhorn, contemporary writers reflect on modern reporting.
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Sunday Feature: After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California
Californian poetry found fame with The Beats in the 1950s. Dana Gioia reveals since -...
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Sunday Feature: A Symphony of Psalms
Cerys Matthews explores the enduring influence of the Psalms across centuries and genres.
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Sunday Feature: A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
The leading German writer Uwe Johnson lived in Sheerness from 1974 until his death in...
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Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death?
Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Sunday Feature: A Life in Study: Robert Lowell
Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell.
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Sunday Feature: A Cultural History of the Plague
Laura Ashe tells the story of the Black Death and discovers how plague changed our and...
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Sunday Feature: A Column For Infinity
Patrick McGuinness discusses Brancusi's war memorial, the Endless Column in Romania
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Sunday Feature: 1816 - The Year Without A Summer
Corin Throsby explores the extreme weather of 1816
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Sunday Feature: 1 December 2013 - Ken Adam Profile
Matthew Sweet meets Ken Adam, the 92-year-old designer of iconic sets from Dr No and...
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Two features by R3 New Generation Thinkers. Dr Simon Beard and Dr Islam Issa
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SUNDAY FEATURE THE 40 DAYS OF MUSA DAGH
Franz Werfel's 1933 novel The 40 Days of Musa Dagh was written as remembrance & warning.
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Sunday Feature Doing Goya Justice The Curators Story
Xavier Bray is a curator on a nail-biting journey to put together the greatest of by...
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Sunday Feature : Laura Ingalls鈥� America
Samira Ahmed considers how the Little House on the Prairie author is regarded in America.
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Sunday Feature - Wagner: Making a National Hero
As part of Wagner 200, Stephen Johnson explores the worlds of Wagner's heroes, from to...
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Sunday Feature - The Nature of Creativity
As species disappear, are we losing natural inspiration for art, music and literature?
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Sunday Feature - The Idea of Sin (3 of 3)
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)
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)
In this first of three programmes, Richard explores what exactly is meant by sin, and...
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Sunday Feature - Stirring Up A Revolution
Author and journalist Tarek Osman returns to the Middle East to explore how the of the...
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Sunday Feature - Shakespeare's Brum Ting
Islam Issa celebrates Birmingham's unique public ownership of Shakespeare's first Folio.
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Sunday Feature - Production Line Living
How has the factory production line changed us? AL Kennedy finds out.
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Sunday Feature - Piano's Music Boxes
Renzo Piano is the architect behind the tallest building in Western Europe, The Shard...
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Sunday Feature - Great Scott
Allan Little on the life and legacy of Walter Scott 250 years on from the writer's birth.
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Sunday Feature - Ginsberg in India
The writer Jeet Thayil takes up Allen Ginsberg's 'Indian Journals'
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Sunday Feature - Dissecting Beethoven
An exploration of Beethoven鈥檚 music through the body that gave him so much trouble.
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Sunday Feature - Concerto: The One and the Many
Simon Russell Beale explores the dynamics between soloist and orchestra in the concerto.
