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The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes

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    The secrets of the Music Reading Panel

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

  2. The Radio 3 Documentary: Radio Controlled

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

  3. 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.

  4. The Radio 3 Documentary: Hitting the High Notes

    Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?

  5. The Queen Of Technicolor

    Maureen O’Hara’s journey from Dublin's suburbs to star of the Golden Age.

  6. The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch

    New arts feature exploring the brief but brilliant career of writer Denton Welch.

  7. The Other Third

    Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third

  8. The Other Third

    Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third.

  9. The Other Iran

    Mahan Esfahani visits Azerbaijan to explore the effect of a border on musical cultures.

  10. The Most Contrary Region

    Paul Muldoon on how the arts influenced a century of broadcasting at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in Belfast.

  11. The Kristapurana

    Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.

  12. The Killers

    Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.

  13. The Invisible Theatre

    Tom Service and others explore the history of the festival theatre in Bayreuth that of...

  14. The Hidden Reservoir

    Carlo Gebler on the role of art in remembrance and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

  15. The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits 1: Vortigern

    Barry Cunliffe on the king whom history has often held responsible for inviting in the...

  16. The Envy of the World: Rudely Truncated

    Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996

  17. The Envy of the World: No Fixed Points

    Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.

  18. The East Speaks Back

    We are used to getting a worldview from the west, but what did the east make of us?

  19. The Devastation of British Art

    Diarmaid MacCulloch tells the story of iconoclasm during the English Reformation.

  20. The Deluxe Edition

    Dr SeΓ΅n Williams takes a first class trip through the enduring contradictions of luxury.

  21. The Crankiness of C.W.Daniel

    New Generation Thinker Elsa Richardson on the radical 20th century publisher C.W.Daniel.

  22. The Black Cantor

    The story of a Black tenor who sang Jewish music in America in the early 20th century

  23. The Battle for Henry David Thoreau

    The 200th birthday of Thoreau raises new questions about his legacy.

  24. The Archbishop of Canterbury on poet Vernon Watkins

    Sunday Feature: Swansea's Other Poet. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.

  25. The Apple and the Tree

    Carlo Gébler, son of Edna O’Brien, asks why the children of writers often become writers

  26. Tchaikovsky's Island of Inspiration

    How a trip to a remote island monastery inspired Pyotr Tchaikovsky's First Symphony

  27. Tales from the Caspian Sea 2 of 2

    Dr Bettany Hughes illuminates the culture of the Caspian Sea and its hinterland

  28. Tales from the Caspian Sea (2/2)

    Bettany Hughes illuminates the neglected culture of the Caspian Sea and its hinterland

  29. Tales from the Caspian Sea (1/2)

    Bettany Hughes travels to Azerbaijan to investigate the cultural history of the Caspian

  30. Taking it All Back Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    Sam Lee explores how archives round the world are looking to repatriate sound recordings.

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