The Radio 3 Documentary Podcast
In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.
Episodes to download
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Resurrecting Mayakovsky
Sun 19 Nov 2017
Ian Sansom attempts to resurrect the spirit of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Sunday Feature: Emigranti - 1917 Revisited
Mon 6 Nov 2017
How do Russia's latest cultural emigres feel about leaving their homeland?
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Sun 29 Oct 2017
Features from two New Generation Thinkers on Afrofuturism and German Lieder
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A Flapper's Guide to the Opera
Sun 22 Oct 2017
Dr Alexandra Wilson steps into the shoes of a flapper for a journey back to 1920s London.
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Sunday Feature: John Tusa's Opera Journey
Sun 8 Oct 2017
John Tusa revisits the three provincial German towns where he first discovered opera
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Sunday Feature: Every County in the State of California
Sun 1 Oct 2017
A radio road movie with Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California, reading in every county.
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Sunday Feature: The Killers
Sun 13 Aug 2017
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Ernest Hemingway’s explosive short story.
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Edinburgh 70: Nothing Short of a Miracle
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Jim Naughtie reflects on the origins of the Edinburgh Festival.
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Literary Pursuits: EM Forster's Maurice
Sun 9 Jul 2017
Forster's gay love story was a forbidden book, unpublished until his death.
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From the Ashes
Sat 8 Jul 2017
Allan Little looks at arts festivals started in the aftermath of World War Two
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Canada 150: Geeking Glenn Gould
Sun 25 Jun 2017
James Rhodes goes in hunt of his boyhood hero: Candian pianist Glenn Gould.
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Sunday Feature: Monteverdi's Women
Sun 14 May 2017
Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers
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Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution. Reformation 500
Mon 8 May 2017
Germany's celebrating 500 years since the Reformation - how did it shape German culture?
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A Square Dance in Heaven
Tue 2 May 2017
The Rev Lucy Winkett goes on the trail of Martin Luther's musical reformation.
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v. is for Tony
Mon 24 Apr 2017
To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.
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Sunday Feature: I Know an Island
Tue 18 Apr 2017
Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley
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The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?
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Opera Across the Waves
Sun 12 Mar 2017
Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.
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Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit
Sun 5 Mar 2017
Kevin Le Gendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane
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Sunday Feature: Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle
Mon 6 Feb 2017
The controversial French composer Boulez made three life-changing trips to South America.
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Music on the Brink of Destruction
Mon 23 Jan 2017
In the Nazi camps and ghettos a vast range of music was created
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Apocalypse How
Fri 13 Jan 2017
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on how different cultures have viewed the end of the world
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Sunday Feature:Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution
Tue 10 Jan 2017
Christian Weikop, examines Kandinsky's Russian roots.
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Breaking Free: Freud versus Music
Fri 6 Jan 2017
Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music
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David Attenborough - World Music Collector
Wed 21 Dec 2016
David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again
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Sunday Feature: Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?
Fri 9 Dec 2016
Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life ...
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SUNDAY FEATURE: NEW GENERATION THINKERS
Thu 17 Nov 2016
The lost Modernist poet Hope Mirlees & the fate of North Africa's Jews during WW 2.
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New Generation Thinkers
Fri 11 Nov 2016
1. Euphemism and Eroticism in Scottish Gaelic Songs. 2.Reappraising Nollekens.
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The secrets of the Music Reading Panel
Wed 5 Oct 2016
What was the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's panel for new scores for broadcast?Charlotte Higgins finds out.
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Sunday Feature: Philip French and the Critical Ear
Fri 30 Sep 2016
Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French
