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Sunday Feature

In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

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Reeking of Cowpats - Peer Gynt
150 years on, how have Ibsen’s play and Grieg’s incidental music stood the test of time?
04 Jan 2026,44 mins
Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan exiled by the GDR
Why was Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan - exiled from East Germany?
28 Dec 2025,44 mins
One Singular Sensation
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a musical theatre classic, 'A Chorus Line'.
21 Dec 2025,44 mins
Taped letters
How exchanging cassette tapes connected communities world wide in the pre-digital age.
07 Dec 2025,14 mins
The Russia I Lost
Tatyana Movshevich explores her Russian cultural past.
30 Nov 2025,44 mins
James Blades - Pandemonium of the One-Man Band
A journey through the life and work of James Blades, famous 20th-century percussionist.
23 Nov 2025,54 mins
The Great Egyptian Music Mystery
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts
16 Nov 2025,44 mins
When the Words Leave
The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.
09 Nov 2025,44 mins,
Sir Henry Unton's Music
Christina Faraday looks at possibly the first image of amateur music playing in England.
02 Nov 2025,14 mins
The Waltz Paradox
John Suchet unlocks the complex makeup of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II.
26 Oct 2025,44 mins
Requiems for the Firestorm - Dresden's Musical Aftermath
Katja Hoyer explores many musics created in the aftermath of Dresden's fiery destruction.
19 Oct 2025,44 mins
The Artificial Composer - Music and AI
Composer Tarik O'Regan explores the collision of classical music and AI in Silicon Valley.
05 Oct 2025,44 mins
Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
28 Sep 2025,44 mins
The Man Who Played The Kremlin's Tune
Lucy Ash uncovers the murky story of Tikhon Khrennikov, Stalin’s musical enforcer.
21 Sep 2025,44 mins
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Paul Laurence Dunbar
Leah Broad explores Coleridge-Taylor's musical settings of Dunbar's poetry.
14 Sep 2025,14 mins
Delius - A Yorkshireman?
Presenter Nick Ahad explores the influence of Bradford on the composer Frederick Delius.
17 Aug 2025,44 mins
Sound Sources
Elizabeth Alker joins the dots between rock, pop and the classical avant garde.
13 Jul 2025,44 mins
The Hiawatha Phenomenon
Uchenna Ngwe charts the changing fortunes of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha.
06 Jul 2025,44 mins
Erik Satie - the Minimalist Muse
Jude Rogers explores the unique legacy of composer Erik Satie, 100 years after his death.
29 Jun 2025,44 mins
The February House
When a house share in Brooklyn became an epicentre of Western music and literature.
22 Jun 2025,44 mins
New Generation Thinkers: How Lullabies Work
Historian (and father) Oskar Jensen on the history and the magic behind Hush-a-bye Baby.
15 Jun 2025,14 mins
Liza Lehmann
Naomi Paxton on the life and music of singer and composer Liza Lehmann (1862-1918).
08 Jun 2025,14 mins
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Behind the Voice
Benjamin Appl presents a personal tribute to the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
25 May 2025,44 mins
Queer Gothic
Sarah Waters traces the queer roots of early gothic literature and architecture
18 May 2025,44 mins
Make Everybody as Uneasy as Possible: Edward Gorey at 100
Chris Riddell celebrates the centenary of the American artist and writer Edward Gorey.
11 May 2025,44 mins
Conscripting Beethoven
How two women used Beethoven's piano music to shape wartime culture in Germany and Britain
04 May 2025,44 mins
Tango Goes East
Juliette Bretan hears how tango danced east to Poland and beyond in the interwar years.
27 Apr 2025,44 mins
Troubadour of the Caucasus
Lucy Ash focuses on a giant of world cinema, the Armenian director Sergei Parajanov.
20 Apr 2025,44 mins
Flamenco Is Like the Sun
Robert Elms explores his passion for flamenco music in Andalusia.
06 Apr 2025,44 mins
Afterwords: Pierre Boulez at 100
An exploration of Pierre Boulez - composer, conductor and writer.
30 Mar 2025,44 mins