Seriously... Episodes Episode guide
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Leap
Artist Monster Chetwynd leads a delightfully bonkers exploration of the Leap Day.
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Laverne in the Willows
Lauren Laverne celebrates Kenneth Grahame's classic tale The Wind in the Willows.
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Laura Mvula's Miles Davis
Laura Mvula and Jason Yarde, Laura Jurd, Kevin Le Gendre discuss jazz legend Miles Davis.
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Laura Barton's Notes on Music
Laura Barton on the importance of the age of seventeen in pop music.
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Late Returns
Writer Nicholas Royle returns three library books - three decades after he borrowed them.
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Lacrimosa
For most of his life, Proinsias O'Coinn thought that there was something wrong with him.
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L'origine de L'Origine du monde
Viv Groskop explores Gustave Courbet's notorious and explicit painting.
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Knight Fights Giant Snail
Dr Alixe Bovey presents a surreal journey through the world of medieval marginalia.
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King Louis the First of Britain
How the late Louis Armstrong conquered Britain with his music and personality.
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Keepsake for My Lover
Step inside the voice booth to find out what is the value of talking at all.
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Kapow!
Cathy FitzGerald visits the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company.
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Journeys in Afrofuturism
Emma Dabiri explores some of the many incarnations of Afrofuturism in art and music.
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Josie Long's Gambit
Josie Long celebrates the pleasures of chess as she rekindles her own love for the game.
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Joni Mitchell Taught Me How to Feel
Ann Powers explores Joni Mitchell鈥檚 impact on her fans and on songwriting.
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Joe v Max
The story of the fight that gripped the world in 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.
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Jim - We Love You Because...
Tayo Popoola explores Nigeria's enduring love of Jim Reeves and country and western music.
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JFK: The Vinyl Reaction
How the American record industry responded to the assassination of President Kennedy.
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JFK: The Vinyl Reaction
How the American record industry responded to the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Jarvis on McCullers
Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.
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Jan Morris: Writing a Life
Horatio Clare examines how the pioneering writer Jan Morris authored her own life.
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James Baldwin鈥檚 Last Amen
Clarke Peters recalls the 1987 production of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.
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James Baldwin's Last Amen
Clarke Peters recalls the 1987 production of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.
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It's Obscene!
Matthew Syed explores the vexed role of money at the pinnacle of contemporary sport.
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It's My Baby Too
Aasmah Mir explores the short and long term impact of abortion on men.
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It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire
Comedian and Russophile Viv Groskop explores a century of revolutionary comedy.
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Is That Machine On?
Stuart Maconie celebrates the golden age of the music press interview.
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Is Psychiatry Working? - Anxiety Special
Anxiety: why do we have it, and how can we control it?
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Is Ignorance Bliss?
Sathnam Sanghera asks, when we can know everything, are we better off not knowing things?
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Is Eating Plants Wrong?
Plants can do much more than we might think. So is it wrong to eat them?
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Iran鈥檚 Secret Art Collection
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Iran's billion pound collection of modern western art.