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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The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits 1: Vortigern
Mon 15 Oct 2012
Barry Cunliffe on the king whom history has often held responsible for inviting in the...
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Sunday Feature: After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California
Sun 30 Sep 2012
Californian poetry found fame with The Beats in the 1950s. Dana Gioia reveals since -...
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Piano Tales - A Social History of the Piano
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb explores the development and enduring appeal of the...
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Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past
Sun 9 Sep 2012
Sunday Feature: Jacquetta Hawkes and The Personal Past. Christine Finn excavates clues...
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Dr Adam Smith on Britain in the American Civil War
Fri 27 Jul 2012
The American Civil War: Blockade Runners and Black Minstrels. What did Britain do in...
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Dr Adam Smith on the dividing lines of the American Civil War
Thu 26 Jul 2012
The American Civil War: Dividing Lines. Historian Adam Smith visits contemporary to...
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Dr Adam Smith on the War of the North in America
Wed 25 Jul 2012
The American Civil War: The War of the North. Dr Adam Smith travels from Lincoln's to...
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Dr Adam Smith on the War of the South in America
Tue 24 Jul 2012
The American Civil War: The War of the South. Dr Adam Smith travels to Richmond, the...
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Historian Tristram Hunt on anti-imperialism.
Fri 20 Jul 2012
Great British Ideas:J.A. Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism. Historian Tristram Hunt a...
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Historian Tristram Hunt on England and Ireland in the 1840’s.
Thu 19 Jul 2012
Great British Ideas: Young England and Young Ireland. Tristram Hunt traces the curious...
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Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus
Wed 18 Jul 2012
Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of...
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George Reynolds - writer and contemporary of Dickens
Sun 1 Jul 2012
Sunday Feature: The Other Dickens. Laurence Scott explores the work and the life of of...
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Geneticist Steve Jones investigates the science of crowds
Sun 24 Jun 2012
Sunday Feature: Crowd Psychology. From the summer riots last year to the Olympics and...
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Andrew Graham Yooll examines Argentine identity
Sun 10 Jun 2012
Sunday Feature: Malvinas Madness. Andrew Graham Yooll, former editor of the Buenos and...
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Phoenix Rising - The Story of Coventry Cathedral
Sun 27 May 2012
Giles Fraser examines the history, ministry and artistic legacy of Coventry Cathedral...
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Wesker at 80
Sun 20 May 2012
Sunday Feature: As Arnold Wesker celebrates his 80th birthday Matthew Sweet looks back...
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Europe - the Art of Austerity
Sun 29 Apr 2012
Sunday Feature: Michael Goldfarb talks to Anne Enright and Justin Cartwright about to...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury on poet Vernon Watkins
Sun 11 Mar 2012
Sunday Feature: Swansea's Other Poet. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
