The Radio 3 Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Supply Lines
Aidan Tulloch reimagines the journey an item goes on in the age of the 24/7 supply chain.
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Sunday Feature:The Emergency
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature:Real Pretenders
Film critic Antonia Quirke investigates the evolution of acting.
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Sunday Feature:Merchant Ivory
Style, flair, individuality, ideas... and stars. The filmic output of the remarkable...
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Sunday Feature:Kandinsky - A Story of Revolution
Christian Weikop, examines Kandinsky's Russian roots.
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Sunday Feature:In Search of Yves Klein
Liliane Lijn explores the work of postwar French artist Yves Klein
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Sunday Feature:Arthur Miller:Speaking of New York
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60
Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making & meanings of Rebel Without a Cause
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Sunday Feature: Writing Across Distance
Six authors reveal something of their own preoccupation during the time of lockdown.
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Sunday Feature: Who Was Richard Strauss?
Richard Strauss's works are staples of both concert hall and opera house, and yet is...
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Sunday Feature: Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?
Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life ...
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Sunday Feature: Whatcha Doin' Marshall McLuhan
Writer Ken Hollings reassesses the life and work of Marshall McLuhan.
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Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of W B Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
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Sunday Feature: Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams - the Print and the Performance
How music inspired and informed the art of the American photographer Ansel Adams
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Sunday Feature: Unmouthed
What happens to a creative mind when it has everything taken away?
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Sunday Feature: Under the Water
Rikke Houd accompanies maritime archaeologists off the southern coast of England.
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Sunday Feature: Thom Gunn - Appropriate Measures
Author Colm TΓ³ibΓn profiles the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, self-professed lover...
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Sunday Feature: This Land of Words and Water
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
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Sunday Feature: The Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt
Samira Ahmed investigates Victorian women who brought Ancient Egypt to northern England.
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Sunday Feature: The Tidal Sense
Artist Signe LidΓ©n asks what the tide means, and could it be trying to tell us something?
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Sunday Feature: The Supernatural North
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural...
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Sunday Feature: The Ruhleben Legacy (rpt, 7digital)
Kate Kennedy on how life in a German internment camp shaped early 20c. classical music.
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Sunday Feature: The Ruhleben Legacy
Kate Kennedy on how life in a WW1 German internment camp shaped classical music.
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Sunday Feature: The Other Iran
Mahan Esfahani visits Azerbaijan exploring the effect of a border on two musical cultures
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Sunday Feature: The Myth and Mystery of Anja Thauer
Uncovering the tragic story of a lost cellist, once known as Germany’s Jacqueline du Pré
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Sunday Feature: The Killers
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Ernest Hemingway’s explosive short story.
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Sunday Feature: The Killers
Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Ernest Hemingway’s explosive short story.
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Sunday Feature: The Fundamentalist Queen
Samira Ahmed explores the extraordinary rise and fall of the Lady Protectress wife of...
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Sunday Feature: The Fake Poet
Why does the image of the forlorn and abandoned poet Thomas Chatterton haunt us today?
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Sunday feature: The Experimenters
Kwame Kwei-Armah explores the artistic collaborations at Black Mountain College
