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Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

The Rebels

Convent-educated, lapsed catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

A Dying Breed

Convent-educated, lapsed Catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

The Benefit of Doubt

Margaret Heffernan explores how artists embrace uncertainty to create their work.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

Where am I?

Margaret Heffernan considers how artists use uncertainty when starting a new project.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

In the Bottom of the Well

Margaret Heffernan explores how artists tolerate the fear of uncertainty.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

Are we done?

Margaret Heffernan explores how an artist knows when to stop.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

Prepared Minds

Margaret Heffernan explores the benefits of uncertainty in both life and art.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Black South African Cuisine

Lindsay Johns samples the cuisines of South Africa鈥檚 Xhosa and Zulu township communities.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

White South African Food

Lindsay Johns finds out about the place of meat in white South African cuisines.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Coloured South African Food

Lindsay Johns introduces us to snoek, pickled fish and the Gatsby steak sandwich.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

South African Indian Food

Lindsay Johns introduces us to bunny chow, a curry dish invented in Durban.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Cape Malay South African Cuisine

Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns completes his exploration of South African food.

• 14 mins

Art from the Outside

Adolf W枚lfli

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

• 14 mins

Art from the Outside

Madge Gill

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

• 14 mins

Art from the Outside

Mary Barnes

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

• 14 mins

Art from the Outside

Minnie Evans

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

• 14 mins

Art from the Outside

Shinichi Sawada

Psychologist Professor Victoria Tischler celebrates outsider art.

• 14 mins

Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

The Paradise Crater

Sarah Dillon tells us about the nuclear short story by atomic energy adviser Philip Wylie.

• 14 mins

Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

Iola Leroy

Xine Yao reads the first novel by African American writer Frances EW Harper (1825-1911).

• 14 mins

Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

Tales from the Garbage Hills

Sarah Jilani reads Latife Tekin鈥檚 magical realist novel about 1960s Istanbul shanty towns.

• 14 mins

Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

The Heir of Redclyffe

Clare Walker-Gore revisits Charlotte M Yonge's best-selling novel from 1853.

• 14 mins

Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

1000 Coils of Fear

Tom Smith reads Olivia Wenzel鈥檚 novel, which was longlisted for 2020's German Book Prize.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Patrick Gale

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, St Michael鈥檚 Mount.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Evie Wyld

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, the Isle of Wight.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Claire McGowan

Five writers walk us along the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, Burgh Island.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

WN Herbert

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, Lindisfarne.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Ben Cottam

Five writers take us along the routes of tidal causeways. Today, Sunderland Point.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Out to Open Water

Jon Gower explores the relationship between Wales and the Irish Sea.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Whipping Up a Storm

How the water west of Wales is a bringer of bounteous gifts but a wrecker of ships too.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Putting the Whales in Wales

Jon Gower tells the story of the arrival of American Quaker 茅migr茅s at Milford Haven.

• 14 mins