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Not Quite Jean Muir

How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills?

• 14 mins

1922: Food

John Gallagher explores eating fads in the 1920s with Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson

• 14 mins

1922: Leisure and the body

From surfing to weight lifting, 20s style

• 14 mins

1922: Nanook of the North

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough looks at this ground-breaking documentary about Arctic life.

• 14 mins

1922: Allotments

John Gallagher investigates the Allotments Act of 1922

• 14 mins

Prison Break

New Generation Thinker Jeffery Howard asks if it is ever ok to escape from prison

• 14 mins

Dam Fever and the Diaspora

How do large dam projects gain widespread support despite past examples asks Majed Akhter

• 14 mins

Facing Facts

From duelling injuries to eye patches - Emily Cock asks how we respond to people's faces

• 12 mins

Pogroms and Prejudice

Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism from Russian history to the present day

• 14 mins

Egyptian Satire

Dina Rezk explores the power of humour and protest

• 12 mins

1922: The Lincoln Memorial

Why was Lincoln the president the nation chose to commemorate in 1922?

• 17 mins

1922: The Hollywood Bowl

From a season of starlit concerts in 1922 to the USA鈥檚 principal outdoor concert venue

• 20 mins

New Thinking: What language did Columbus speak?

John Gallagher and guests explore language in the 15th century age of exploration

• 45 mins

The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries

An archaeologist, a historian and a poet join Shahidha Bari as the gospels return North.

• 45 mins

Immortality

Matthew Sweet & guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature, film and myth

• 44 mins

Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy

• 44 mins

The Normans

Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today

• 44 mins

The Black Country - past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region

• 44 mins

The Black Country - past and present

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region

• 44 mins

Ibsen

New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays from Lucinda Coxon & Steve Waters.

• 43 mins

Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance

Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

John Cowper Powys

John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'

• 54 mins

My Neighbour Totoro

Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film

• 44 mins

Female power and influence past and present

Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro

• 44 mins

How We Read

Our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text explored by Matthew Sweet.

• 44 mins

Miles Davis and On The Corner

Matthew Sweet and guests explore this genre-stretching album released on 11th Oct 1972

• 44 mins

New Thinking: Accents

From variations of Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice

• 45 mins

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022

Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

• 44 mins

Romanticism Revisited

Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open

• 45 mins

British Academy Book Prize 2022

Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

• 45 mins