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The Lost Hours

Afternoon Tea

Novelist Andrew Martin considers the whys and wherefores of a much-loved ritual, tea-time.

• 14 mins

The Lost Hours

The Lost Hours of the Afternoon

Novelist Andrew Martin wryly ponders what has become of afternoons.

• 14 mins

The Lost Hours

The Cocktail Hour

Novelist Andrew Martin considers cocktail parties and other evening social events.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Isolation

The Great White Silence

Chris Watson vividly recalls how he captured the sounds of 'The Great White Silence'.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Isolation

Island Isolation

A quest for nocturnal sounds at the pinnacle of an isolated sea rock as sirens sing below.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Isolation

The Wake

The songs of invisible birds are captured in the isolation of a lake in Finland.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Isolation

Voices in the Dark

As wreathes of mist lift from a moorland, birdsong is captured in the darkness.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Isolation

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

From sea level to volcanic crater in search of the entrance to the centre of the earth.

• 14 mins

Our Fathers' War

A Death in My Family

Michael Goldfarb's cousin Frank was killed in the conflict.

• 14 mins

Our Fathers' War

Obligations

Teddy Reinhart produced shows he hoped would lead to a career in Hollywood.

• 14 mins

Our Fathers' War

Conscientious Objector

Meredith Dallas was an actor and teacher imprisoned as a conscientious objector.

• 14 mins

Our Fathers' War

The Worst Possible War

Bernhard and Dora Holland spent the war in Auschwitz and survived.

• 14 mins

Our Fathers' War

Enough About the War, Dad

Dr Howard Shevrin was a psychoanalyst whose war story influenced his later career.

• 14 mins

Into the Wild

Bird Song and Resonance

Raymond Antrobus remembers his time spent living in Oklahoma City during the pandemic.

• 14 mins

Into the Wild

Meditation on Landscape, Bodies and Writing

Alycia Pirmohamed explores ecological poetry in the context of brown women鈥檚 bodies.

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Into the Wild

When The Birds Sing We Are Safe

Are we a part of nature鈥檚 orchestra? Hanan Issa listens to a world of poetry and birdsong.

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Into the Wild

The Colour of Your Mind

Will Harris asks how dreams and poems can teach us to look at the world differently.

• 14 mins

Into the Wild

The Hidden Valley

Alinah Azadeh takes us on a walk from the edge of the South Downs towards the sea.

• 14 mins

The Meaning of Ritual

The End of Ritual?

Madeleine Bunting explores whether public and private ritual has outlived its usefulness.

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The Meaning of Ritual

Shaping Time

Madeleine Bunting reflects on how ritual marks the passage of time.

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The Meaning of Ritual

Rituals of State

Madeleine Bunting considers the benefits and pitfalls of state and military ritual.

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The Meaning of Ritual

Rituals and the Life Cycle

Madeline Bunting explores the decline of rituals marking key life events.

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The Meaning of Ritual

The Reinvention of Ritual

Madeleine Bunting asks whether it鈥檚 time to value ritual afresh.

• 14 mins

Artists and the Spirit World

Hilma af Klint鈥檚 The Ten Largest

Jennifer Higgie traces the impact of the spirit world on modernist art.

• 14 mins

Artists and the Spirit World

Wassily Kandinsky鈥檚 Composition V

The roles of spiritualism and women artists at the beginning of western abstraction.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Estella Canziani's The Piper of Dreams

Fairy fever and art鈥檚 response to World War I.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Ithell Colquhoun鈥檚 Scylla

Celebrating the artist who championed automatism, feminism and the value of other realms.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Donna Huddleston鈥檚 Witch Dance

How alternative ways of understanding the world are inspiring contemporary artists.

• 14 mins

Herb

Marijuana Made Me

Writer Colin Grant's personal take on the cultural history of cannabis.

• 14 mins

Herb

Burkina Faso's Incorruptible People and the Drum

Colin Grant examines the relationship between cannabis and the global poor.

• 14 mins