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The Meaning of Beaches

Dover Beach

Professor Fiona Stafford explores Dover beach, an emblem of Englishness for millennia.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

The Giant's Causeway

Professor Fiona Stafford explores the ultimate beach-as-symbol, the Giant's Causeway.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Scarborough Beach

Fiona Stafford explores Scarborough beach - a true entrepreneur and survivor.

• 15 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Barra Beach

Fiona Stafford explores Hebridean Barra beach, the world's only beach airport.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Beaches

Crosby Beach

Portraits of iconic British beaches. Crosby beach, Liverpool, hosts 100 Gormley statues.

• 14 mins

Dear Geoffrey Chaucer...

Novelist Ian Sansom fires off a letter to Geoffrey Chaucer...

• 14 mins

Dear George Eliot...

Novelist Ian Sansom pens a missive to George Eliot...

• 14 mins

Dear Virginia Woolf...

A letter of apology to Virginia Woolf from novelist, Ian Sansom.

• 14 mins

Dear Agatha Christie...

Novelist Ian Sansom has a theory to put to Queen of crime, Agatha Christie.

• 14 mins

Big Emotion

New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott asks if feelings are becoming data, do they change?

• 15 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Piazza

Writer Polly Coles reads The Piazza, her first essay on the life of Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

La Strada

Writer Polly Coles reads the second of her essays about Italy’s public spaces, La Strada.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

Walls

Writer Polly Coles reads Walls, the third essay in her series about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Garden

Writer Polly Coles reads The Garden, her fourth essay about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

Italy Outdoors

The Church

Writer Polly Coles reads The Church, her final essay about Italy’s public spaces.

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Dinogad's Jerkin – The oldest lullaby in Britain

Poet and musician Twm Morys tells the story of the oldest lullaby in Britain.

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Ma-Hw

Twm Morys looks at the poetry of ploughing songs

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms

Poet Twm Morys delves into the cultural links between Brittany and Wales

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Devils

Twm Morys tells the story of Jack Ystumllyn, an African man in North Wales in the 1770s

• 14 mins

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Why the Lloyd George museum is so small

Twm Morys looks into the reputation of Lloyd George in the village of his birth

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Origins

Since early childhood, Joanna Robertson has been lured by both real and fictional food.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Artists

Joanna Robertson's deep connection with food leads her to top artists and musicians.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Disorder

Joanna Robertson's deep and intimate relationship with food goes disastrously wrong.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Family

Joanna Robertson's deep connection with food has created families, and changed them.

• 14 mins

My Life in Food

Fate

Joanna Robertson now lives in France, but more despite the food than because of it.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

Music: The First Theory of Everything

Listen to the harmony of the heavens with astronomer Dr Stuart Clark.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

The Sound of the Moon

Can you resist the music of the sirens? Dr Stuart Clark continues his cosmic journey.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

Our Inner Music

What's your inner harmony? Dr Stuart Clark explores the first theory of everything.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

Music and Astronomy in Crisis

The first theory of everything starts to fall apart.

• 14 mins

Music of the Spheres

The True Harmony of the Universe

5/5 Kepler figures out what the universe really sounds like.

• 15 mins