From prison breaks to VR dinosaurs: insights from the AHRC & 大象传媒's scheme for academics.
Golding's classic novel was saved from being rejected by Faber by the luckiest of chances.
Punch and Judy - unexpected feminist icons?
The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas Day.
Tom Smith on the early pioneers of Berlin's music scene and arguments about whiteness.
How a murder in Kansas prompted Truman Capote to write In Cold Blood.
Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural.
Dr Elsa Richardson explores the impact and legacy of radical publisher CW Daniel.
Alexandra Harris explores the life and work of the elusive artist Eric Ravilious.
Nature's barbed wire - and giver of a fruit that creates a delicious warming tipple.
Laurence Scott on Victorian novelist and contemporary of Dickens, George WM Reynolds.
Alexandra Harris presents a cultural history of the cold from the Anglo-Saxons to today.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the cultural and ecological glories of the summer forest.
A succulent and mouthwatering portrait of one of the body's least talked-about organs.
Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers on Freud in Asia and the foreign language phrase book.
Rana Mitter explores identity, forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire
Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas.
Rana Mitter and guests debate fact and fiction as they explore how terrorism works.
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H.Guston with Matthew Sweet.
Debbie Wiseman, Fern Riddell, Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith join Matthew Sweet.
How the Victorians changed lunch. Elsa Richardson and Chris Kissane join Rana Mitter.
Nandini Das and John Gallagher look at words for strangers in Tudor and Stuart England.
Laurence Scott re-assesses the work of the film-making team known as Merchant Ivory.
Japan's uneasy embrace of modernity, exemplified by a controversial 19th-century building.
