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Mary King investigates how advances in our anatomy knowledge are changing the way we sing

Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making & meanings of Rebel Without a Cause

Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.

Cultural historian Dai Smith interrogates the Celtic myth.

Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.

Alasdair Cochrane on Thomas Hardy and animals; Will Abberley on evolutionary psychology.

The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter

Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain

Lesley Riddoch examines the changing relationship between man and nature in the North.

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.

Sarah Dillon goes on the hunt for the story behind how Great Expectations was written.

Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight

Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.

Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916

Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.

If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick

Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.

Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet

Arnold Wesker, who died in April of this year,looking back at his life and career.

Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written.

Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.

Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century

Ian McMillan on the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936,that changed everything

Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery.

Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part

Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.

Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996

Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French

What was the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.