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  1. Yiddish Glory

    Musician Alice Zawadzki explores long-lost Yiddish songs from World War II

  2. X-Ray Vision: Rudolph Fisher in Harlem

    Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American life

  3. Wordsworth - Poet of the People

    How two great thinkers, Wordsworth and Adam Smith, responded to the Industrial Revolution

  4. Why Music?

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

  5. Whatcha doin’, Marshall McLuhan

    Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of intellectual and media guru Marshall McLuhan

  6. What Walls Hold

    Charles Dickens’ life was shaped by an extraordinary house. Docudrama with Alex Jennings.

  7. Wesker at 80

    Sunday Feature: As Arnold Wesker celebrates his 80th birthday Matthew Sweet looks back...

  8. WATERLOG

    Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.

  9. Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams: The Print and the Performance

    Vladimir Ashkenazy reveals how music inspired the art of the photographer Ansel Adams.

  10. v. is for Tony

    To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley profiles the unique poet. (R)

  11. v. is for Tony

    To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.

  12. Unlocking Anne

    Poet Clare Pollard introduced us to forgotten female sonneteer, Anne Lock.

  13. Tutu - A Portrait of Nigeria

    Chibundu Onuzo tells the fascinating story of ‘Africa’s Mona Lisa’ and artist Ben Enwonwu.

  14. Tuner of the World

    A portrait of pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape maestro R Murray Schafer.

  15. Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus

    Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of...

  16. Too Many Artists

    Paul Morley asks "Can there be too many artists in the world?"

  17. Tony Harrison's Prague Spring

    How one of Britain's best known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.

  18. Tolstoy and Napoleon. 1 - On Napoleon

    In 1812 Napoleon led his army to Moscow. In War and Peace Tolstoy gave his account of...

  19. Time Canvasses - Morton Feldman and Abstract Expressionism

    How friendship with Philip Guston and Mark Rothko took American music in new directions

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

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

  21. Then there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the week

    How famous German avant-garde composer Stockhausen wrote an opera for each day of the week

  22. The Women Who Staged The Rising

    Marie-Louise Muir explores the impact Woman and theatre had on the 1916 Easter Rising.

  23. The Way I See It: John Waters on Lee Lozano's Untitled 1963

    American film director John Waters makes his selection from the MoMA collection.

  24. The Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt

    The Victorian women who brought the treasures of Ancient Egypt to northern England

  25. The Venice Ghetto

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

  26. The Summer Forest

    Once upon a time, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough woke up in the summer forest.

  27. The Silence of My Pain

    Hannah French explores a hidden disability for many musicians: pain.

  28. The secrets of the Music Reading Panel

    What was the BBC's panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.

  29. The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled

    Robert Worby on how post-war German radio was conscripted to fight the cultural cold war.

  30. The Radio 3 Documentary: King Kong - the Township Jazz Musical (rpt, Reel Soul Movies Ltd)

    Soweto Kinch uncovers the extraordinary story of King Kong, the township jazz musical.

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