Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony

Education - 30 Million Young Pianists

The impact and effectiveness of education in sustaining the growth in classical music.

• 45 mins

You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel Without a Cause at 60

Alan Dein explores the making and meanings of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause.

• 45 mins

How Celtic Are We?

What is Celtic identity? Professor Dai Smith searches for the essence of Celticism.

• 45 mins

Arthur Miller - Speaking of New York

Ben Brantley of the New York Times describes how the city informed Arthur Miller's work.

• 45 mins

Ginsberg in India

Writer Jeet Thayil retraces beat poet Allen Ginsberg's travels round India in the 1960s.

• 45 mins

This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France

Adam Thorpe on what the Battle of Agincourt means in Britain and France.

• 45 mins

New Generation Thinkers

New Generation Thinkers: Hardy and the Animals

Alasdair Cochrane explores the ethical implications of evolution in Thomas Hardy's writing

• 23 mins

New Generation Thinkers

New Generation Thinkers: Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism?

New Generation Thinker Will Abberley reflects on how we imagine the animal mind.

• 22 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Science of Baby Laughs

What makes a baby laugh? From Darwin to state-of-the-art neurology, the search continues.

• 23 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Life and Life of Richard Baxter

The life of theologian Richard Baxter, who was at the heart of the English Civil War.

• 22 mins

Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain

Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain.

• 45 mins

An Imagined Glasgow

Writer Louise Welsh explores how Glaswegian artists have re-imagined their city.

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Above Sixty, Below Zero

Exploring the changing relationship between humans and the landscape in the far north.

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True Norse

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

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Freeze: Thaw

Hayden Lorimer discusses ice with poets, musicians, explorers, doctors and physicists.

• 45 mins

Pierre Boulez: Rebel with a Cause

An archive episode of the Sunday Feature to commemorate the death of Pierre Boulez

• 44 mins

Crossing the Border - Poetry and Film

Matthew Sweet explores the overlooked history of poetry in film.

• 45 mins

Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail

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

• 45 mins

Keeping in Steppe

David Sneath looks at Mongolia, where culture is being transformed across the steppe.

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South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower

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

• 45 mins

Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide

Paul Morley explores the ever-changing world of Britain's art galleries.

• 45 mins

Real Pretenders

Film critic Antonia Quirke investigates the evolution of acting.

• 60 mins

The Venice Ghetto

Jerry Brotton explores the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto, the first of its kind.

• 45 mins

Brainwash Culture

Professor Daniel Pick explores the enduring cultural obsession with brainwashing.

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The Women Who Staged the Rising

Marie-Louise Muir on the Irish women of theatre who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising.

• 45 mins

Taking It All Back Home

Singer Sam Lee explores how archives around the world are repatriating sound recordings.

• 45 mins

1816, the Year Without a Summer

Corin Throsby explores the cultural and social impact of 1816's extreme weather.

• 45 mins

Menuhin at 100

The story of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, using BBC archive material.

• 45 mins

First Folio Road Trip

How Shakespeare's First Folio helped make a national poet and an international star.

• 45 mins

Still Will

Laura Barton explores the silences and intimacies of Shakespeare's plays.

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