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Forever Songs

Don't You Think We're Forever

Karine Polwart considers music's ritual power to connect, soothe, honour and remember.

• 14 mins

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry

The Early Years

Belfast poet Michael Longley talks about his home town and love of jazz and the classics.

• 14 mins

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry

Poems of World War I

Belfast poet Michael Longley talks with Olivia O'Leary about his World War I poetry.

• 14 mins

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry

Poems of the Troubles

Belfast poet Michael Longley on writing about the Troubles.

• 14 mins

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry

Poems of Mayo

Belfast poet Michael Longley talks about nature poems inspired by the west of Ireland.

• 14 mins

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry

Poems of Love and Ageing

Belfast poet Michael Longley talks about his love poems and sixty years of poetry.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Wild Poland

Dawn

An adventure in nature recording with Izabela DÅ‚uzyk.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Wild Poland

Harmonies

Sound journeys into Poland's wild forests and marshes.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Wild Poland

Thrush Nightingales

Adventures in sound with Polish nature recordist Izabela DÅ‚uzyk.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Wild Poland

Trees

A deep listening experience in the wild places of Poland, recorded by Izabela DÅ‚uzyk.

• 14 mins

Sounds of Wild Poland

Night

Join Izabela DÅ‚uzyk on her sound adventures at night in the forests of eastern Poland.

• 14 mins

Five Kinds of Amadeus

16/09/2024

Geoffrey Colman asks Patrick Mackie what Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus' reveals about Mozart.

• 14 mins

Five Kinds of Amadeus

17/09/2024

Geoffrey Colman explores what it's really like to be a musical prodigy with Vanessa-Mae.

• 14 mins

Five Kinds of Amadeus

18/09/2024

Geoffrey Colman discovers Dame Jane Glover's reactions to Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.

• 14 mins

Five Kinds of Amadeus

19/09/2024

Geoffrey Colman discovers Mark-Anthony Turnage's take on Mozart and composer rivalries.

• 14 mins

Five Kinds of Amadeus

20/09/2024

Geoffrey Colman meets Simon Callow, who first played Mozart in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.

• 14 mins

Music Rediscovered

Teresa del Riego's suffrage anthem

Naomi Paxton shares research on a suffrage song with a special performance by Lucy Stevens

• 14 mins

Music Rediscovered

Tudor music and politics

Christina Faraday tells us how Robert Cecil used a song to curry favour with Elizabeth I.

• 14 mins

Music Rediscovered

The Star-Spangled Banner, Jacobins and Abolitionists

Oskar Jensen on what links Liverpool politics, a street ballad and the American anthem.

• 14 mins

Music Rediscovered

Esther Inglis's musical self portraits

Eleanor Chan delves into the world of a Huguenot bookmaker who used music as a code.

• 14 mins

Music Rediscovered

Chorus girls in Paris

Adjoa Osei has been delving into the personal archives of some 1930s Plaza Tiller dancers.

• 14 mins

Healing Musicians

1. Julian Lloyd Webber

Kate Kennedy talks to musicians who had to rethink their lives and careers after injury.

• 14 mins

Healing Musicians

2. Stephen Marquiss

Kate Kennedy shares stories with musicians who had to rethink their lives after injury.

• 14 mins

Healing Musicians

3. Robin Graham

Kate Kennedy shares stories with musicians who had to rethink their lives after injury.

• 14 mins

Healing Musicians

4. Ludwig Quandt

Kate Kennedy shares stories with musicians who had to rethink their lives after injury.

• 14 mins

Healing Musicians

5. Rebecca Toal and Hattie Butterworth

Kate Kennedy talks to musicians who had to rethink their careers after injury or illness.

• 14 mins

Under the Influence

Jon Boden

Jon Boden on the influence of apocalyptic science-fiction on him as a folk singer.

• 15 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Entrepreneur

Philip Roscoe asks whether our expectations of the lone entrepreneur are unrealistic.

• 15 mins

Under the Influence

Emma Rice

Emma Rice reveals the influences that stamp her work as a theatre director.

• 15 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Parallels and Paradoxes

Shahidha Bari examines the ideas behind the founding of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

• 15 mins