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A Sporting Lexicon

Luck

Matthew Syed explores how 'luck' is a big factor in winning and losing in sport.

• 15 mins

A Sporting Lexicon

Fourth

Gillian Slovo considers the nobility of mising the podium and coming 'fourth' in sport.

• 15 mins

It Talks

Cows and Shells

Keith Hart on the origins of money as part of an economy of living persons and things.

• 15 mins

It Talks

Standards

Exploring the creation of the first international and cross-boundary standards for money.

• 15 mins

It Talks

Paper Money

Dr Helen Wang discusses the development of paper money.

• 15 mins

Dark Arcadias

Colin Burrow on Fantasies for Children

Critic Colin Burrow discusses fantasies in the childrens' stories of Diana Wynne Jones.

• 15 mins

Dark Arcadias

Robert Burns and Scottish Arcadia

Literary critic Nigel Leask discusses Robert Burns and Arcadia.

• 15 mins

Dark Arcadias

Alexandra Harris on Country-House Dreams of Arcadia

Literary critic Alexandra Harris explores the country-house dreams of the 20th century.

• 15 mins

InterRail Postcards

Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe on the sense of arrival into adulthood which the InterRail pass signified.

• 15 mins

InterRail Postcards

Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne on InterRail travel and her interest in frontiers and national identity.

• 15 mins

InterRail Postcards

Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Mendelson recalls how travelling by InterRail in Europe transformed her life.

• 15 mins

InterRail Postcards

David Almond

David Almond on the adventures and misfortunes he experienced travelling by InterRail.

• 15 mins

InterRail Postcards

Diane Samuels

Playwright Diane Samuels recalls travelling to Vienna with a fellow Jewish school friend.

• 15 mins

The Music Appreciation Movement

Episode 1

Richard Witts on the origins of Music Appreciation, and the work of pioneer Percy Scholes.

• 15 mins

The Music Appreciation Movement

Episode 2

Richard Witts on educationalist Walford Davies and Imogen Holst, one of his team.

• 15 mins

The Music Appreciation Movement

Episode 3

Musicologist Richard Witts explores the significance of programme notes.

• 15 mins

The Music Appreciation Movement

Episode 4

Richard Witts on Music Appreciation's excursion into film and a new broadcasting era.

• 15 mins

The Other Empire

Episode 1

Julian Jackson explores France's first war of decolonisation: a slave rebellion in Haiti.

• 15 mins

The Other Empire

Episode 2

Julian Jackson tells the story of France's involvement in sub-Saharan Africa.

• 15 mins

The Other Empire

Episode 3

Julian Jackson discusses the imperial troops who fought for France in two world wars.

• 15 mins

The Other Empire

Episode 4

Julian Jackson focuses on France's involvement in Indo-China - Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

• 15 mins

The Other Empire

Episode 5

Julian Jackson focuses on the Algerian War, France's last great colonial crisis.

• 15 mins

At the Speed of Thought

Scott Lash on 'Liquid Modernity'

Exploring how digital technology is dramatically changing our daily normality.

• 15 mins

At the Speed of Thought

Laurence Scott on Information vs. Knowledge

How instantly available information is affecting the way we consider knowledge and wisdom.

• 15 mins

At the Speed of Thought

Claire Wardle on How News Travels Fast...

Claire Wardle on how news and Twitter feeds shape our response to events.

• 15 mins

At the Speed of Thought

Paola Tubaro on Mobs and Mobiles

Paola Tubaro examines the 'dark side' of social media in relation to 2011's English riots.

• 15 mins

At the Speed of Thought

Felix Salmon on High-Frequency Trading

Felix Salmon on high-frequency trading and its part in the current financial crisis.

• 15 mins

Painting Genesis

God and the Sistine Chapel

Rev Lucy Winkett on what Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings say to Christians today.

• 15 mins

Painting Genesis

Colour and the Sistine Chapel

Art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston responds to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings.

• 15 mins

Painting Genesis

Branding and the Sistine Chapel

Art historian Martin Kemp explores the origin of the Sistine Chapel 'brand'.

• 15 mins