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Why was La Traviata's premiere a Flop in Venice?

How Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata was a total flop at its premiere in Venice

• 24 mins

TV Comedy – Behind the Scenes with Rob Long

How sitcom writer Rob Long cut his writing teeth on Cheers with Dan Staley

• 23 mins

Henry Moore – Shaping his Century

Henry Moore and his work, starting from his bronze Atom Piece

• 14 mins

Adventures in Poetry – The Owl and the Pussycat

Why Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat is such an enduring favourite

• 23 mins

Adventures in Poetry – Remember Christina Rossetti

Why we remember still the poem Remember by Christina Rossetti

• 23 mins

Adventures in Poetry – John Donne

Is the poem The Sunne Rising by John Donne the sexiest poem in English?

• 24 mins

Writers on Location – Hanif Kureishi in south London

Writer Hanif Kureishi on south London and how it has influenced his writing

• 23 mins

TV Comedy – Dava Savel and Ellen

Dava Savel on being lead writer on the sitcom Ellen when Ellen DeGeneres came out on air

• 23 mins

Le Corbusier, Architect of modern Living

Why Le Corbusier was the most influential and most maligned architect of the 20th century

• 14 mins

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians goes Online

The online version of Grove Dictionary reviewed, plus Evelyn Glennie's cymbals

• 24 mins

Masterpiece – Picasso's Mademoiselles

Discussing Picasso's masterpiece of 1907, Les Mademoiselles d'Avignon

• 13 mins

Casanova – the Great Seducer

Should we think of Casanova as hero or villain?

• 23 mins

Walt Disney's Snow White

How the landmark animated film was made

• 14 mins

Traditional Chinese music

Is Chinese music being preserved intact? Or is it embracing western traditions?

• 24 mins

Dancer Martha Graham

A profile of the American modern dancer and choreographer

• 14 mins

Azerbaijani author Lev Nussimbaum

An exploration of Nussimbaum's novel Ali and Nino: A Love Story

• 23 mins

Irish writer Billy Roche

The Irish playwright and actor visits his home town of Wexford

• 23 mins

Anna Karenina

Are the great issues found in Tolstoy's novel still to be found in Russia today?

• 24 mins

Crime and Punishment

A tour of St Petersburg where the world of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece is all around

• 23 mins

Chekhov's Three Sisters

An exploration of the Anton Chekhov's masterpiece

• 24 mins

The writer Alan Sillitoe

The author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning visits his home town of Nottingham

• 23 mins

The British composer John Taverner

A profile of the composer, famous for his moving, religious work

• 24 mins

Sir Colin Davis and Berlioz

The British conductor talks about his championing of the French composer Hector Berlioz

• 24 mins

Evelyn Glennie in her studio

The Scottish virtuoso percussionist demonstrates different kinds of frame drum

• 24 mins

Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa

The life and work of the great national poet of Portugal

• 23 mins

German composer Hildegard von Bingen

Fiona Maddox discusses her book about the medieval German nun and visionary

• 24 mins

Flute player Emmanuel Pahud interview

The Franco-Swiss musician talks about when he first started playing and his love of Mozart

• 23 mins

The CALMA Project

How a music software programme could revolutionise how students learn to listen

• 24 mins

Bach's St Matthew Passion

A review of a recording of Bach's choral work, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

• 24 mins

Composer and pianist Percy Grainger

The pianist Penelope Thwaites talks about the work of the Australian-born composer

• 24 mins