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The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

Power and Control

Professor Jeremy Black considers the primary military function of castles.

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The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

Castle Builders

Nicola Coldstream explores the careers of two master masons.

• 15 mins

The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

The Siege of Kenilworth

Benjamin Wild recounts the siege of Kenilworth castle - the longest in English history.

• 15 mins

The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

The British Castle: A Woman's Place

Prof Roberta Gilchrist discusses the place of women in the history of British castles.

• 15 mins

The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

Castles in Concrete

Writer Ken Worpole reflects on the grim forts and defences of the east coast of Britain.

• 15 mins

Winterwalks

Deborah Levy on Hampstead Heath

Writer Deborah Levy describes a walk on London's Hampstead Heath under layers of snow.

• 15 mins

Winterwalks

Christopher Hope in Languedoc

Writer Christopher Hope discusses the cold winds of Languedoc.

• 15 mins

Winterwalks

Scarlett Thomas

Scarlett Thomas describes fruits and vegetables on a walk across a winter landscape.

• 15 mins

Winterwalks

Erica Wagner

Erica Wagner recalls a midnight journey, with a hill, a castle and biting winds.

• 15 mins

Winterwalks

Owen Sheers in Poland

Owen Sheers visits a forest in Poland, where sights and sounds are alluring and timeless.

• 15 mins

Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Deborah Moggach

Novelist Deborah Moggach revisits her first book, written in Pakistan.

• 15 mins

Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Harland Miller

Writer and painter Harland Miller on how a sign in his local eatery came to inspire him.

• 15 mins

Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Janet Suzman

Actress Janet Suzman recalls working on the film Nicholas and Alexandra.

• 15 mins

Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Stephen Coates

Stephen Coates of the band the Real Tuesday Weld recalls writing an early song in London.

• 15 mins

Just Juvenilia

Just Juvenilia: Roger Michell

Director Roger Michell describes working on his first television drama, Downtown Lagos.

• 15 mins

The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

Anna Bertha's Hand

Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.

• 15 mins

The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Nebula in Orion

Omar Nasim discusses the very first pictures of a nebula, taken by Henry Draper in 1880.

• 15 mins

The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Dogon

Jeanne Haffner discusses how aerial photography changed the spaces we live in.

• 15 mins

The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Broom Cottages

Elizabeth Edwards on W Jerome Harrison's photo of the Broom cottages in Warwickshire.

• 15 mins

The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything

The Tichborne Claimant

Exploring how an 1866 photograph of a butcher taken in Australia changed British law.

• 15 mins

Fear Itself

Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet reflects on an experiment designed to induce fear in a toddler.

• 15 mins

Fear Itself

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse on how educational films scared more children than any horror movie.

• 15 mins

Fear Itself

Quentin Skinner

How Thomas Hobbes came to argue that fear underpinned all human motivation and action.

• 15 mins

Fear Itself

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin considers the role fear and anxiety plays in autistic people's lives.

• 15 mins

Fear Itself

Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis explains how human fear is often led by thought and imagination.

• 15 mins

Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Nadezhda von Meck

Vanora Bennett on Tchaikovsky's generous benefactor, who refused to ever meet the composer

• 15 mins

Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Lady Maud Warrender

Kate Kennedy tells the story of Lady Maud Warrender, an aristocrat and patron of music.

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Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Leopoldine Wittgenstein

Bethany Bell on the life of Leopoldine Wittgenstein, host of a Viennese musical salon.

• 15 mins

Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Mary Gladstone

Discussing Mary Gladstone, daughter of William, who brought music to Downing Street.

• 15 mins

Classical Music's Unsung Heroines

Betty Freeman

Helen Wallace on Betty Freeman, perhaps the greatest patron of modern classical music.

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