Creativity, performance, debate
With Joyce Carol Oates, Eley Williams, Yomi Sode and Lucy Burke.
The Man Booker Prize-winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.
Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall & Seb Falk talk to Rana Mitter about what we teach
Shahidha Bari talks to a pair of authors about the writing life. Plus a musical monument.
David Hepworth discusses the golden age, and recent resurgence, of vinyl records.
Helen Czerski shares a physicist's view of the River Thames
Documentary about an aspiring disc jockey who turned his life into a cassette radio show.
With Peter Godfey Smith, Matthew Welton, Kate Fox, Catherine Ayres and Tania Hershman.
From building shelters to the language we use to discuss displacement we hear new research
From Virginia Woolf's writings on art to dance, stillness and movement in lockdown.
Ben Saunders, Meredith Hooper, Hugh Broughton and Jonathan Bamber join Rana Mitter.
Writer Polly Coles reads a selection of essays about the life of Italy's public spaces.
By Mike Bartlett. The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre production, recorded under lockdown.
Once lead singer of The Undertones, Feargel Sharkey now gets his kicks from rod and line.
The best harmonica impression of a train you will ever hear - no question.
By Winsome Pinnock. The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production recorded in lockdown
An evocative and immersive journey on the Flying Scotsman from Manchester to Carlisle.
Folk singer Julie Fowlis conjures kelpies, selkies and waterfall banshees from Gaelic song
A journey through the mysteries of the endangered Swedish forest language, Elfdalian.
With Alice Oswald and Fiona Sampson
In a conversation with Mathew Sweet, the gothic author explores writing past and present.
Shahidha Bari hosts a conversation recorded with the Royal Society of Literature.
Five diarists of the past through the lens of the present.
Eleanor Alberga with a timeline of black classical composition.