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Goodbye to All That

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo reflects on the role of Chinese 'coolies' on the battlefields of World War I.

• 15 mins

Goodbye to All That

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson considers a recent turning point in British attitudes to the arts.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: Scots Abroad

AL Kennedy reflects on tartan, the kilt and a sense of Scottish identity.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: GSOH

AL Kennedy reflects on the idea of what is a good sense of humour.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: Morality and Misery

Writer and comedian AL Kennedy celebrates Scottish 'dourness'.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots

Writer and comedian AL Kennedy celebrates the language of Scotland.

• 15 mins

Homage to Caledonia

Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities

AL Kennedy on what Scottishness means to her, discussing Scotland's many hidden identities

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Limestone

Sue Clifford, co-founder of Common Ground, reflects on England's limestone landscapes.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Sandstone

Walker and geologist Ronald Turnbull reflects on sandstone's place in our landscapes.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Granite

Sculptor Peter Randall-Page describes the obduracy of Dartmoor's granite boulders.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Slate

Welsh poet Gillian Clarke counts the human cost of quarrying Snowdonia's ubiquitous slate.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

A Body of Becketts

Actress Lisa Dwan describes the demands of performing in works by Samuel Beckett.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Beckett's Living Dead

Commentator Fintan O'Toole on themes of mortality and death in Samuel Beckett's work.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written

Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Lost in Translation

Director Netia Jones on the relationship between words and music in Samuel Beckett's work.

• 15 mins

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

Beckett and the Wake

Photographer John Minihan on taking some of the best-known photographs of Samuel Beckett.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: The Actor's Life

Michael Goldfarb discusses the freedom, joy and absurdity of the actor's life.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Episode 2

Michael Goldfarb describes an encounter with writer Philip Roth in New York in the 1970s.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: The Bronx

Writer Michael Goldfarb on driving through smouldering ruins in the Bronx in the 1970s.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: The Artistic Scene

Why 70s New York was a place of violence and economic collapse, but also artistic ferment.

• 15 mins

Trip Sheets

Trip Sheets: Changes

Michael Goldfarb explores how New York and its taxi industry have changed since the 1970s.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Public Brahms, Private Brahms

Pianist Natasha Loges considers what lay behind Brahms's famously gruff public persona.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and Nature

Writer Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and Germany

Natasha Loges explores Brahms's complex political relationship with his homeland.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and Freud

Lesley Chamberlain asks what can be learnt by comparing the work of Brahms and Freud.

• 15 mins

Brahms Experience

Brahms and the Future

Pianist and writer Natasha Loges discusses Brahms's views on the future of music.

• 15 mins

Mark Ravenhill: the Gall Bladder

Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect starting with Mark Ravenhill.

• 14 mins

Afua Hirsch on Maggie Tulliver

Afua Hirsch on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 13 mins

Forests of the Imagination

Fiona Stafford asks why artists are drawn to the imaginative possibilities of the forest.

• 14 mins

Christina Patterson: the Skin

Christina Patterson reflects on the skin and her own experience of living with acne.

• 14 mins